The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

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LONDON:
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1141.

A strange change has come over the most inifk-
ential and, we believe, most numerous faction of the
factious Tories. The main principle of those
unscrupulous persons was for many years that
their will was to other men's law, and they prac-
tically carried out their arbitrary decision by the
most severe and cruel means. Opprobrious epithets
generally applied, however, to the most numerous
and most industrious classes, were amongst the
fee'lleat weapons they used. Nothing, was too bad
for them to say of the people, and not much was too
bad for them to do. Abusive terms were aceofrrpa-
nied by sharp laws ; and coercion, constraint, and
taror were habitually employed. The steady Aap•
port the Tories gave to the penal laws in Ire-mod,
(tad the vigorous resistance they opposed to all at-
tempts to procure the repeal, is one illustration of
their conduct. The Manchester massacre and the
Six Acts is another. Their resistance to the pro-
jects for I.ssening hanging is a third. A fourth is
to be fulled in their determinwion to uphold mili-
tary flogging, and that abomination of abominations
impressment. These are specimens of the maainer
in «hich they enforced their (,ill by cruel laws.
C and Ctaych-rates may suffice as exam-
pies of the manner in which they fill their pockets
or gratify their caprice at other people's expense.
If they used less ;.ard words than their opponents.
which we deny—looking at their continued abuse of
the bulk of the
people, and at their persecution, li-
terary as well as legal, of every man who (lid not
happen to belie',T. as they believe, on matters of re-
ligion—they had less excuse for them, because they
wielded the powers of the Government and the
Legislature, gave to their will the sanctity of an
enactment, and enforced it by the sword. Other
men had nothing but words with which to defend
themselves, and might stand excused, though we
know not that they do any good if they used harsh
words.

But now the Tories begin to taste adversity.
They no longer dictate the law, and no longer
wield the sword. They have sense enough to per-
ceive at length that their arbitrary and cruel pro-
ceedings, their persecution of Catholics, Dissenters,
Irreligionists, and the bulk of the industrious
classes, were the main causes of their unpopularity,
and of their consequent inability to retain or to re-
cover possession of aim Sweet, then, are the u.,,5
of adversity ; for that section of the Tories \\lite!, is
led by Sir ROBERT PEEL, which is btiginatised by
the Standard as the Carlton, and as sepki„g eme;,
. now not only uses itself the language of modera-
tion, but preaches moderation in conduct, and em-
phatically warns the Tories that they must be mode-
rate, and struggles against another section of the
Tories in favour of moderation. This itself is a

blessed change, and if the success of the Reformers,

partial and incomplete though it be, have had no
,other goo!, t, and it has had many, it will n-
-1141661' . advantage of posterity that it has
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`Abited7,o).. •A' • arrogance, the brutal despotism,
maysiay tWA ocity, of the governing Tories.
*.r ask for the proofs of this.

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If they read the Times, as who does not, they
must have remarked the absence recently from

that Journal of the abusive and bitter articles in
which it was wont to pour forth the spleen and ill-
temper of its party against Mr. O'CONNELL,
and against the surpliced ruffians of Ireland. If
they read the Post, which fewer Tories, we are
afraid, do than ought, they will daily find abundant
evidence of the change in its columns. Some days
ago, it had an article against the violence and inso-
lent exaggeration of public journalising, directed
against its heretofore fellow-labourers, the Tunes
and Standard. Yesterday it followed up that by
a laboured recommendation of moderation, and a
coil:plaint that writers " who are governed
,in their
argumentation by good sense and good taste, are not
sufficiently nor properly supported by moderate men.
In the same joureal, and probably by the
same hand, was a leading article, taking the
Quarterly Review to task for exciting dread in
Ireland, by the horrible blue light, reflecting with
much exaggeration the plots of the Itomanists,
which it has thrown up in the last number. The
article is, however, remarkable when found in a
Tory journal, and too strong a confirmation of the
denunciations by which The Sun and other Libiral
Journalists sought to stein the flood of virulence
which was vomited by the O'SunervANs and
IVI‘GHEEs from Exeter Hall over the land, to be
merely commented on, and therefore we transfer the
major part of it to our columns. The rhodornontade of
the Tory journals, in which the Post heretofore in-
dulged as much as any one, is now " stock exag-
gerations, convenient for the use of speech-makers
in moments of excitement, and of newspaper writers
when something strong was considered as appro-
priate to the occasion." In these " stock exagge-
rations," however, lay the whole strength of PEEL,
STANLEY, and Co. ; and, now that they are dis-
earded, on what pretext will they continue to make a
species of legislative war on the Catholics of Ireland ?
Instead of fostering the animosities between
the professors of rival creeds, which has hitherto
been the great business of Orange writers and
Orange spoutels, the Post wisely recommends jus-
te and kindness, charity in the largest sense, and
concludes that if the Protestants act on these
golden precepts, as they ;have hitherto trampled
them under foot, they will have nothing to
fear. Joining cordially in the recommenda-
tions of the Post, we cannot neglect again to
remind it that adversity has taught it and its party,
and that the Tories never dreamed of moderation
while they wielded the law and the sword. Little
as they have yet felt' of the many evils they for
a long period inflicted on others, they no sooner
begin to feel them—en° sooner does the sword which
they have sent to the bone of the multitude graze
their skin—no sooner do hard words even begin
to tell against them, than they become apostle
of moderation. Let their new doctrines be fol-
lowed, because moderation will best ensure our vic-
tory, as it is the most opposed to the whole pre-
vious policy of the Tories.
We have not, however, by the above examples
quite exhausted the proofs which we can extract
from the Post of the present love of moderation in
the Tories. On Saturday last it essayed to prove
to Mr. o' e! ONNELL, that he was quite mistaken in
asserting that the English Tories hate the Irish
people. No, said the Post,

The Tories of England do not hate the Irish people,
but they ardently desire to see that people reclaimed
from their bad habits, and capable of taking a better
rank in civilised society. There may be sonic Tories so
inflamed and injured in mind, by listening to perpetual
extravagance, as to consider that Papist and ruffian, or
Roman catholic and traitor, are almost synonymous
temps; but in England such Tories are neither nume-
rous nor influential. They are persons who have caught
the infection of their politics from a certain deplorable
class of Irishmen who have acted and spoken for many
years as if furious hatred of those who profess religious
error were true religion, and as if the rude domination
of themselves were the only just administration of a
Protestant monarchy. Vase unprincipled and dan
serous persons, Whose energy is often but the zyfipring
of drunkenness, and their patriotisnz dependent upon
pelf, have in some degree imposed upon the English
Tories by their impudence and perseverance in untruth ;
but Mr. O'Connell should remember that this is but
the importation (f an Irish vice, and it ought not to be
charged upon England.
This is very like what The Sun has repeatedly
stated ; and it has more than once expressly warned
the English Tories, that they were led astray by
certain speakers and writers, who put forth their
own Orange notions, nursed in the hot-bed of vio-
lent civic contentions—the offspring, perhaps, in
some cases, of personal injury—as the genuine
Protestantism of England. The Sun has warned
the Protestants, that Church-of-Englandism was
in its characteristics mild and careless, approaching
to indifference, till these Orangemen and the Ul-
,' tras, whom the M`NEILES, the PHILPOTTS, and
others who are afflicted with the Orange disease,
lave inoculated, have lashed her into bigotry and
; fury. Now it is found that this game cannot be
:played out ; and now the political Tories, retreat-
ing from their auxiliaries, whom they so long coun-
tenanced, follow the lead of The Sun, and de-
nounce, if not by name, by impliction, those who
have for many years spoken—and, let us add,
." as if furious hatred of those who profess

written—'

religious errors, were true religion."
On several occasions the Standard seems to
bare resented this desertion by the Post and its
friends, and every now and then talks of waiting-
women and hangers-on of the Carlton seeking to ex-
change official salary for the wages of newspaper
industry. It feels apparently that the remarks of
the Post, such as those we have quoted, were di-
rected against it and its friends. The quarrel-
-which, however, is obvious—between the sections
of the Tories, is one of principle, not of de-
gree, which time and return to efHce, should that
ever take place, would only exasperate. We pre-
sume that Lord STANLEY may be considered as
the head and representative of the ultra extravagant
Orangeinen, whose " energy is often the offspring
of drunkenness," as Sir ROBERT PEEL is the
bead of the moderate section. The quarrel which
is carrying on by the Post and the Standard no
doubt represents pretty correctly the feelings with
which thase rival statesmen regard each other,
though they suppress them for a political purpose,
yet work together just as the Post and Standard
have done for years past.

The Walsall election seems likely to be preg-
nant with mo►e important consequences than we
have hitherto given it credit for. A writer in the
Morning Chronicle yesterday, adverse to the Anti-
Corn-law League, sacs—

It is pretty evident that a body of this description,
throwing all their weight in a large town into the scale
against a Liberal candidate, will, in the present evenly-
balanced state of pirdes, generally ensure the failure of
that cause. lam aware they do not in name throw
this ivei;ht into the Tory scale ; but if the effect should
be, as nin:, tioics out of ten l'. will be, to ensure the Tory
triutopil, I iftel not say that it is not very material
under v,hat name they carry on their ptoccedilq;s.
He admits, it) fact, that the League can turn
the scale against the Ministers, and throw the ma-
jority of the House of Commons on the side f
.
their opponents. Such being its power, its will
is declared
byanlolotlwiiner writerterm of a letterto the
Chronicle
, who signs himself a " Member of the
League," in the following
tellthe
.jontle qhouwest;iobny—t_ini:kin geondues
You complain of
; of the Anti-Corn-
law League at Walsall, and ask, " How it will serve
erepeal of the Corn-laws ?"I'll
question, to preserve their g other Liberals yield on this
seats. You must remem-
ber that it is from want of
supportcarried. It is the
from professed Li-
berals, that the question is not
Liberals in the House of Comnio n
prevent it andi ,s ; t
the Liberal party may make ups ila itheirt minds to this,