The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-11 00:00:00

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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1839.

The Tories are exulting very much at their in.
crease in numbers and strength. We are half in-
clined to believe that there is some foundation for
their boasting, and we hold it to be a cruel deceit
on the Liberal party to delude them as to the pro-
gress of their opponents. The Tories must be met
and conquered, or there will be no safety for the
State, which can only be achieved by forming a
correct estimate of their strendth.
Thcy arc a great and a combined body. All the
money jobbers, most of the stock brokers, Bank
directors, and Bank proprietors are naturally and
necessarily Tories. Those who profit by the dis-
criminating duties on sugar, and those who grow
rich by making us pay dear for bad timber,
belong to the same political party. The
coal monopolists are Tories, and to the same
political party naturally belong, also, most of the
!Treat factory owners. The landowners are necessa-
rily Tories, as are the priests, almost .to a man.
Now all these classes are closely' United for
the defence of their several monopolies and privi-
leges, resolved to maintain their peculiar advantages,
and they leave no art untried, no exertion _neglected,
which can secure success. The priest invokes reli-
gion, the landowner old traditionary feelings, includ-
ing the past glory of England, the monied monopo-
list and factory owner appeal to its modern greatness,
and all combine to place the powers of the Govern-
ment in the hands of those who will protect their
various usurpations.

All these numerous and influential classes
combine their exertions in every part of the country
to revive the triumph, and establish the reign of
Toryism. Steadily and energetically, with the in-
stinct of self interest, or even self preservation, they
press from all sides towards their goal as a body of
hunters enclose and hem within a circle, which
becomes narrower as they ail move to the same
point, the game they are determined to slaughter.
We acknowle.lge that it is' for us rather a fearful
thing to witness the incessant, persevering, and
untiring energy with which these. several

bodies, usini- the Pulpit and the Press,
and wielding the powerful arms of corruption and
intimidation, march forward to their object.
Each is avowedly struggling for its own selfish
ends, and, put to the test, they are scarcely im-
pudent enough to hide their sinister objects under
the pretence of promoting the public welfare. The
selfish, brutal, and brutalising system of Toryism,
thus animated by one spirit, and actuated by one
organisation, is spreading, we are fain to admit,
over the land, and, like an army of locusts, is de-
vouring all the green and pleasant crops of labo-
rious patriotism.
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ADC' what sort of organization have the Liberals,
who really mean to promote the public welfare, by
which to resist the progress of Toryism ? They are
broken into scattered bands, each contending for
some favourite nostrum of its own. The Tories,
consisting of monopolists of various classes, are the
natural enemies of the public welfare, and of the
Kreat body of the people. On the latter, there-
tore, must all true patriots rely for success ;
and the depth and width of our disputes,
the feebleness of the organization of the Li-
beral party, are manifested by the fact that the bulk
of the unrepresented are at present as much, or
more, opposed to the Whigs than to the Twies.
We mention the fact -without saying whether the
Whigs or the Radicals are to blame, but if that
dispute continue, the Liberals must, ere long, fall
an easy prey to the well organised Tories. Both
.are, perhaps, inexcusably wrong—the Whigs, for
having adopted a great deal too much of
the Tory system; the Radicals, or unrepre-
sented, for the violence of their language,
and utter impracticability of the objects after
which they have gone astray. If we dared to
be as profane as Sir JOHN ROBNOUSE was in the
time when he was accustomed to speak with bold-