The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-29 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1837.
GL ORY

TO THE
MEN OF GLASGOW !

THE BANNER OF REFORM

STILL FLOATS UNTARNISHED
ON THE CITADEL OF THE WEST !

The Glasgow Reformers are deserving of all pos-
sible praise from the Reformers. By their generous
exertions—by their undoubted unanimity—by their
ability to discriminate between the true and the false,
the substance and the shadow—the sound Reformer
and the sophistical Tory—a triumph has been gained
for the good cause, the moral effect of which will be
irresistible. Mr. MONTEITH, the defeated candi-
date—the defeated by an overwhelming ma;ority—the
defeated, despite the exertions of that adroit election-
eering intriguer, BILLY HoLAIES and his subordi-
nates—Mr. MONTEITH, we say, himself bore testi-
mony to the paramount importance of the struggle,
when he observed, in the full anticipation of victory—
alas, that a man should be so silly as to shout before
he is out of the wood I—" This is, I think, a far more
important election than that of Westminster." Mr.
MONTEITH is right. The Glasgow election is more
important—or, to quote his own words—" far more
important." It is an earnest of a future and speedy
triumph for the good cause. It is proof, " strong as
Holy Writ," that Reform is not retrograding, but, on
the contrary, is on the advance. And against what
prejudices—against what powerful opposition—have
the Glasgow Reformers triumphed ? Their candi-
date, Mr. DENNISTOUN, was not merely accused, as
well urivately as publicly, of being an Anarchist :
but he seas accused also of being an Atheist, of having
burned £.be Bible," with every mark of supreme con-
tempt. All local—all national prejudices were brought
to bear against Lim. lie was denounced as a man
with whom no Christian could associate ; as a revo!u-
tionist in politics, an Infidel religion ;—yet, despite
these wholesale slanders—despite the manoeuvres of the
Tories, all combining to a man on this grand occasion,
all resolved to stick at nothing that might enable them
to carry their point—despite the herculean efforts of a
faction flushed with their late successes at Westminster
and Bridgewater—Mr. DENNISTOUN has triumphed,
and the PEEL Club, as a party, is henceforth' a non-
entity in Glasgow. Honor, therefore, we repeat, to the
bold—the considerate—the patriotic, men of Glasgow !
There is not an individual Reformer among them who
has not shown himself a public benefactor !
It was common sense that carried the day at Glas-
gow, as it was cant and maudlin sentiment at West-
minster. Sir FRANCIs BURDETT appealed to the
old recollections—the ;ventler sympathies—the tenderer
weaknesses of his constituents—and ensured his return
by the teas of dotage—mistaken for those of high-
minded sensibility—that trembled in his eves ; Mr.
DENNIsToUN appealed only to the justice, the dis-
cernment, the upright, conscientious feeling of his con-
stituents, and carried his point by this appeal, and this
only. Which is the soundest triumph of the two ?
Which the most momentous election—that of cant at
Westminster, or common sense at Glasgow ?
‘Vill any Reformer who can count ten on his
fingers now presume to say that he does not regret the
vote he gave to BURDETT ? Will he now venture to
say that he was not misled—taken in (for the plainest
phrase is the best) by the Hon. Baronet's maudlin,
pathetic allusions, put forth the night before the nomi-
nation, to his deplorable state of health—that he
doubted whether he should " leave the hustings alive ;"
th6u7,11 a few days afterwards he was strong enough
to conic 'down to the House, and deliver one of the
most furious speeches ever delivered within the walls
of Parliament—will any Westminster Reformer, we
repeat, now say that the Hon. Baronet has not swin-
dled him out of his better feelings, by a mock show of
extreme ill-health and suffering ? Not one ! The
farce is now seen through, and appreciated accordingly.
Westminster now sees that Sir FRANCIS, though too
ill to support Reform, is quite well enough to uphold
Toryism. That he makes a robust and healthy Con
servative, thougi: a most delicate and valetudinarian
Reformer, to such an extent, indeed, that he cannot
articulate even a syllabic iu favour of the principles of
his old associates.
How different is the case with Mr. DENNISTOUN
at Glasgow I He does not appeal to the mere sym-
pathies of his constituents, but to their sense of jus-
tice. He does not invoke their commiseration, or