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

TO THE RADICAL ELECTORS OF MANCHESTER.
GENTLEMEN,
lAM informed from various quarters, that from
an early period of the day, the electors on their way to
the polling-booths were assured that I had resigned.
I should have thought my past conduct would have prevented
any elector from supposing me capable of so contemptible a
proceeding.
You have been outwitted ; and all you have to do is to try
again. Poll against the Whigs on Friday.
Let us calculate what we have lust and what we have gained.
We have been deprived of the expected opportunity of making
a demonstration of our numbers in Manchester. But we have
made a rally for the Unrepresented, which will not be lost sight
of, and have set the example of a movement which others u ill
follow with better fortune than ours.
All success cornea by perseverance. Our enemies shall hear
of us again, and shortly.
Good easy men of Manchester, did not you know that all you
heard from the enemy was to be disbelieved?
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Sept. 5, 1839. T. PERRONET THOMPSON.

RADICAL ELECTORS OF MANCHESTER,
You have fallen to pieces before the commonest of election
stratagems. The first whiff of Whig wind blew you down like
a house of cards. You have made a sorrowful display, not of
your strength, but of your skill in using it ; for nobody be-
lieves there arc only 63 men in Manchester who wish for
Universal Suffrage and dislike the New Poor Law. Men
pining in prisons were listening for you,. women and children
in poor-neuses were looking through the grates to see you do
something towards their relief ; the Unrepresented everywhere
had their eyes upon you; and lo the Manchester mountain pro-
duces a list of 63.
But failures are of little consequence except as they affect
men's minds. You have carried much, though not all you
might. Badly as you have managed, you have clearly esta-
blished the fact that no political party can do without you.
he Whigs' majority has been brought down from 1,877 to 127;
and they will not be in a hurry to try what it will be next.
What has dispersed you now, will never do it again. At
a General Election, which cannot be far off, you will bring
in your man, ar.d choose what other party you will take into
partnership.
See now what yol would have gained if you had stood stoutly
to your work this time. Ranicalisn would have been picked
out of the dirt into which it has been trodden by the detection
of its leaders in the House of Commons and the errors of the
Chartists. A " heavy blaw and notable discouragement" would
have been given to the compact which keeps the Whigs in office
as the cat's-paw of the Tories. This is what you have done
by halves. But the half is worth keeping, and shall be kept
accordingly.
All honour to the 63. A plain medal shall be struck, "In
commemoration of the sixty-three electors of Manchester who
voted at the raising of the flag of the Unrepresented in Sep-
tember 1839," and the name of a voter engraved on each. The
time will come when your families will vattie them.
To the rest,---Keep the colour which I left with you, and see
if anotber'time you can support it better.
I remain, your sincere and faithful servant,
T. PER. BONET THOMPSON.
Manchester, 7th September, 1839.