The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-25 00:00:00

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1840.

What the Tories would do in office may be
known by what they demand or threaten in opposi-
tion. For weeks, or even months, they have de-
manded se.ere measures against the Chartists.
Some of them have required the interference of
the Magistrates to put an end to Corn-law discus-
sion. The Bishop of EXETER and his clique
would extirpate the Socialists. Mr. NPGHEE
calls for the extinction of the Catholics. Yester-
day, to crown the matter, the Times blamed the
Ministry for not putting down the repeal agitation
in Ireland. They are said to " betray their
duty." Adding the repeaters in Ireland to
the Chartists and Socialists in England, and
adding to them the Anti-Corn-law agitators
and the Anti-Church-rate agitators, were the
Tories in office they would have to coerce
three-fourths of the nation. By its own partisans
the Tory Government is described as the enemy o.
the people; and were it in office, it would be en-
gaged with them in direct and perpetual hostility.
What the consequence to the public tranquillity
would be can be easily foreseen. The agitation
f,r the repeal of the Union would become a deadly
quarrel between the Government of Ireland and the
mas: of the people, and sedition, threatening rebellion,
would compel the Government to increase the army in
that country. At once an end would be put to its
peace and its welfare. The Chartists, the Dissen-
ters, the Anti-Corn-law men, the Socialists, goaded
by anger and fear, must become doubly energetic
and doubly vigilant, and the peace of England
would be as much endangered as that of Ireland.
An army would be wanted in every town of the
kingdom. In fact, the doctrine of the Tories is
that the people cannot be right ; they and the peo-
ple must therefore be in conflict, and as the latter
have now grown politically powerful, to place the
Tories i❑ office is to ensure public disturbance, if

not general convulsion.
Some persons are well aware of this. One of
the most ultra of the journals, the Ncrthern Libe-
rator, takes great pains in its last number to ex-
plain to its readers that the Whigs, in office,
arc the chief impediments to revolution. It say
that the GovernMent was offered to the Tories,
&ring the late session, but they declir.ed, because
of the difficulties by which the nation is surrounded ;
and it counsels the people, whenever the Parliament
is dissolved, to elect none but Tories, the more rabid
and ultra the better. It rationally expects by that
measure to turn out the Whigs, to hasten on colli-
sions letween the Government and the people, and
so bring about the prevalence of violence and revo-
lution. The leaders of the Times and the advice
of the most violent of the Chartist Journals are
marvellously in accord, and both take the same
road, if one honestly avows, while the other con-
c:als its ends.

Practically, we are quite certain that the Tory
policy of attempting to put down opinions, how-
ever erroneous, would be most mischievous, and
theoretically we axe equally sure the Tories are
wrong. The Government has no business what-
ever with opinions, or it must decide concerning
every opinion, and must allow—if that be pos-
sible—none to be formed and none to be expressed
but what it approves of. The Times, we noticed
with pleasure, implied, a few days ago, an agree-
ment in opinion with us, condemning the Legisla-
ture, in more severe language than we have used,
for too much meddling, and of course implying
that the Legislature has inflicted great evil on the
community. But the Times knows well that the
Legislature has not unprompted undertaken
all its odious task. On the contrary, a very busy,
meddling set of people, having little or nothing to
do, being provided for by the labours of others,
have goaded the Legislature into unwholsome acti-
vity. Now, if the Government is to put down
opinions because they are mischievous to society,
it must put down, on the showing of the Times,
the opinions and the meetings of the so-called
saintly philanthropists who are the authors of much
noxious and peddling legislation.
The same kind of remarks may be extended to
the silly agitation of Mr. MiGnEE and the Bishop •
of EXETER against the Catholics, which, provok-
ing hatred and strife, is as inimical to the public
welfare as any class of opinions whatever. We do