The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-12 00:00:00

N°.18,582.]

TO TUE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH
AND PARISI' OF LEOMINSTER.
Gentlemen,
Understanding that the only Candidate who asked for your sup-
port on Liberal Principles has withdrawn, I lose no time in soliciting
your Suffrages.
You are aware that on a former occasion I gave way, rather than
expose the Liberal cause to danger, by dividing its adherents, and
therefore I trust that you will not ascribe my present conduct to
any selfish motives, or to any vicwe of merely personal afnbition.
My -claims are such as, whether I succeed or fail, my supporters
cannot be ashamed of.

Early convinced that the principles of Free Trade were founded
on truth and reason, I incorporated them with my political creed
long
before they received the saretion of the Legislature ; and at
present,
hsettita,twhen they are attested by the most conclusive evidence, I
to call upon the country to retrace its steps—to tax the
poor for the rioh—and to create artificial scarcity in this over-
peopled country for the imagined interest of a particular class, does
uproar to me an infatuation that the blindest disregard to the most
obvious facts can account for, but not at all excuse.
Any attempt, under whatever pretext, to impose a tax on corn,
shall therefore meet my determined and inflexible opposition.
The hideous and disgusting scenes of corruption which recent in-
quiries have disclosed furnish, in my opinion, the supporters of the
Ballot with an argument that is unanswerable. What can be more
man in i
shocking to every whose soul every spark of probity and
honour is not extinguished,
than the means which it appears are re-
gularly employed in many places to obtain a seat In the great council
of the nation ?
To such means I never will have recourse—if the :consequence be
a perpetaai exclusion from the House of Commons—to that exclu-
sion I willssubmit, for I was early taught to prefer the consciousness
of integrity to the most dazzling prospects of ambition. But to the
liberal and indepen,lent Electors of Leominstrr I offer an opportu-
nity of asserting their right, and of returning to Parliament a faith-
ful and fairly chosen Representative.
As I hope on Tuesday or Wednesday to have an opportunity of
explaining my sentiments to you, I will not enter into any detailed
statement of them. I was the advocate of Law Reform, and espe-
cially of Reform in the Colin of Chancery, long before such opinions
were as popular as they are at present lam as anxious for the re-
moval of Eccleslastical,Abuses, and for a better distribution of the
Revenues of the Church, as I was when I last addressed you. Upon
the question of Maynooth my opinions have undergOne a consider-
able alteration. No man clings more tenaciously than Ido to the
great principles of toleration ; •no man would more shrink from
speaking with disrespect of the creed of the• Roman Catholics. To
make the Roman Catholic citizens, those to whom I most look up
have sacrificed all that. could tempt human ambition ; I trust I
should imitate their example. But I do not wish to see them
more.than citizens—and recent events have satisfied me that
to contribute to the support of •Maynooth is to contri-
bute to the j dissemination of ignorance, and to the sup-
port of a tyranny over the minds of the simple and illiterate, exer-
cised by those who have obstinately and passionately resisted every
attempt made by Government to enlighten and improve the people.
I will only add that I am for the Abolition of Church Rates ; the
present state of our law upon that subject is ,scandalous to a civi-
lised people. In my opinion the Revenues of the Church—properly
distributed—are abundantly sufficient to repair and maintain ~ur
sacred edifices, without a tax which irritates a large and valuable
portion of the community.
Stafford, March lb, 1852.

JOHN GEORGE PHILLIMORE.

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