The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-17 00:00:00

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LOND ON.
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1837.

The Morning Post of this day strives hard to make
it appear, that all the Tory returns during the election
have been secured by the fairest and most constitutional
means, and that if bribery and intimidation have ex-
isted anywhere, they have existed among the Refor-
mers. " Where," asks our Contemporary, "did the
power lie of intermeddling with effect in a manner hos-
tile to the freedom of election ? In the Ministry, or
in their opponents ? Which party had the means of
rendering a system of corruption or intimidation most
available for its purpose? Which party had the
strongest temptation to set on foot and pursue this
system ? We may here appeal conSdently to the com-
mon sense of our readers. It is the party actually
in
,possession of power which can alone gain by putting
down the freedom of election." This is ingenious so-
phistry, nothing more ; for every one knows that the
" strong temptation" to which our Contemporary al-
ludes, existed among the Tories, and among them only.
The Reformers had the goodness of their cause and
the popularity of their principles to support them ; but
the antagonist faction haying no such potent auxiliaries,
was compelled to have recourse in its desperation to the
most flagrant acts of corruption. Had the Tories not
bribed and bullied, cajoled and intimidated, they had
been by this time all but annihilated. The result of
the elections was a matter of life or death to them ;
&nee, being by far the richest portion of the com-
munity, they lavished that wealth unsparingly to pro-
mote the interests of their party. Look at their late
conduct in North Wilts, in North Derbyshire, in
Midcl:tesex, in Berwick, in Exeter, and in many other
col'aities, cities, and towns that we could mention,
where nothing but the unconstitutional influence which
they exerted, in the most barefaced manner, saved them
from utter extinction. Had they, like the Reformers,
relied for success on their cause, there would scarcely
have been a hundred head of Tories returned to
the House of Commons. They knew this, and
knowing this, they had the strongest possi-
ble temptation to bribe every corruptible consti-
tuency. But, enquires our Contemporary, " which
party had the means of rendering a system of corrup-
tion or intimidation most available for its purpose ?"
Why, the richest to be sure, and this, as we before
observed, is the Tory party. If, however, the Morn-
ing Post be positive that it is the Reformers, and not
his own faction, that have practised the worst acts of
bribery and intimidation during the election, why
sloes be not come forward and advocate the Bal-
lot ? This would at once put an end to all such
practices ; and as his party is the immaculate and the
constitutional one, would, in the event of another dis-
solution of Parliament, ensure them a triumphant
majority. We test our Contemporary's sincerity by
this question. If he come round to the Ballot, we
shall be satisfied that Ire is really in earnest in his
culogiums on the perfect purity of his party's elec-
tioneering practices ; if he continues, as he has always
hitherto done, to oppose it, he knows right well, to
quote the language of SWIFT'S " King of Brobdignag,"
that "he is speaking the thing that is not"—in other
words, that he is telling a bouncer of the first water. "It
is alittle too bad," adds our Contemporary, "that, after
having practised intimidation and corruption to the
utmost extent of their power, and after having prac-
tised them in vain, the Whig-Radical party should
employ the pretext of superior purity as the refuge
of discomfiture and defeat, and call calumny to
their aid, in order to show their comparative
freedom from the vices which they have most dearly
cherished." This is unquestionably too bad, and as
our Contemporary evidently takes it much to heart,
we have no doubt he will gladly avail himself of the
opportunity that it affords him of advocating the Bal-
lot, which is the surest possible remedy against these
iniquitous practices.

• Lord WORSLEY has done an important service to
the public, by laying before it a spechnen—one out of
tens of thousands that will never see the light--of the
unprincipled and tyrannical acts committed by the To-
ries in support of their anti-Reform system. The Noble
Lord, the Member for Lincolnshire, has published a
letter addressed to him by Mr. TUCK, a tradesman
residing in Westminster, which, though it does not in
the least surprise us, who have long since learned to
appreciate the conduct of the Hanoverian faction, may,
pen rhaps, to some of our readers, display that conduct
i a form of greater iniquity than they believed possible.
Mr. TUCK is a Reformer, and had, we believe, up
to the declared apostasy of the wretched old
Man Whose
name
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