The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-02 00:00:00

Finn URA V 2. 18-.6.

But what is the beggar's cry now ? Four months
have not yet elapsed—he has returned to England—lre
has been invited by the same rabble to exhibit himself
before them—Justice•of.the-Peace RATHBONE danced the
bear before the mob of Liverpool-L-MuNTz danced the
bear before the blackguards of Birmingham—but, by all
that is ludicrous! the bear now dances to a different
tune ! It would appear from his docility, and his pliabi-
lity to times and circumstances, either that DANIEL has
been steeped into somnolency by a surfeit of dog's-meat;
or that some knife-grinder of the cabinet has been en-
abled to file his tusks. Now we hear nothing against:,
the House of Lords! The horsepond has gone io De-
NIEL, or DANIEL to the horsepond. There is here most,
unquestionably a screw loose In the ialloWs. Lc;'4d
JOHN RUSSELL has either tied up the agitator, or DANIEL::
has sold, for so ihuch coin, the threats, or, if yoti wilt,'
the principles of Autumn last. In his speeches at' Li-
verpool and Birmingham O'CONNELL hardly makes an
allusion to the House of Lords. That very poor crea-
ture Mr. WILLIAM EWART did venture, but most rashly,.
and with his characteristic foolishness, to hint at a reform
of the lords; but O'CONNELL was silent. There was no r
response from the Abbey of Derrvnane. DANIEL made'
no sign; and it is said that he looked most contemptu-
ously upon the silly personage who had the indiscretion
to place him in so marked a position.
How is this?- It was said that the ministry had sold
themselves to O'CONNELL. The simple fact we have
stated makes it appear more probable that O'CONNELL
has sold himself to the ministry—on what terms remains
to be seen.- He told the mob of Manchester, Edinburgh,
and Glasgow that he would never rest contented until
the whole system of 'hereditary legislation was entirely
eradicated from the institutions of this country, and he
asserted the perfectibility of the policy which recognised
no councillors of state who were not chosen by the
people.

Does O'CONNELL adhere to these principles now ? If
so, where are the pools ? On the contrary he skulks
from any allusion to them in the most cautious, and to
him naturally the most cowardly manner. He has no
recollections which do not suit his convenience. He
acknowledges no pledges which it would be unprofitable
to redeem. The oath of yesterday is forgotten to-day,
and what was a solemn promise in the morning is
swamped by. the bold but convenient lie of the same
evening. This is popery where its agents can command
its potency in the absolution of crimes—of crimes which
christianity, in other states governed by the principles of
law and truth, deems to be the worst and the most un-
pardonable class of offences against GOD and man.
But why should we expect truth or candour from him
who has been a liar from the beginning? His whole
life has been a living lie. Whatever money this beg-
gar—this robber of beggars-Lhas acquired—has been
gained in the base trade of torturing truth into the form
of falsehood—by dressing falsehood in the garb of truth=7--
by selling pettifogging- oratory to a misguided peasantry
—by writing legal charms at the foot of the gallows—by.
screwing money • frPrii the pockets of.the relations of
those whom no legal quirk could save from dying the
death of a murderer—a beggar, in fact, so, ignorant of
all law that he has seldom held a brief except in defence
of the guilty. But this fellow, presuming upon the
weakness of the government he supports, and flattering
the ambitious but fatal views of the popish faction to
which he belongs, who, though steeped in ignorance.
imagine they are to obtainikpreme power in England—
goes farther, and claims the right to dictate to the people
of England-Ist, by prescribing their duties and com-
manding the performance of them; 2dly, by claiming
the right to violate his own injunctions; and, 3dly, the
peculiar privilege of laughing in his sleeve at the silly-
ness of his victims, of disgorging his own propositions at
his sovereign will and pleasure, and changing whatever
opinions he may inculcate to the most antipOdean stretch
just as the wind may happen to blow or the balance in
favour of profit or rent be on the opposite side.
Reader ! this is the puff-blown priest•fed Irish beggar .
who dared to insult, with Mr. Justice RATIIBONE as his
guide, the respectable merchants and other inhabitants
of Liverpool on Wednesday last. Thousands and tens
of thousands of our protestant brethren in this palati-
nate have read his speeches delivered in the streets, and
in the close and fcetid arena of the Corn Exchange.
Most of them also, we presume, have read his after-
dinner speech to the black-faced radicals of Birmingham
—a set of chimney sweeps whom even O'CONNELL
heated more distantly and less ceremoniously than he
would have dared to treat the pigs of any priest in
Kerry. He refused to dine with them. He had been
travelling in the fresh and open air, and we can there-
fore easily account (if no other reasons are given) for
his abstinance from perspiration, stewed beef, grease
and greens, onions and dirty fingers. But forgetting all
this in reference to his speeches, (if ribald trash ought
to be so designated,) we appeal to every reader whether
he ever read any thing so disgustingso monstrously foul =
and false—in the whole course of his life? Let every man
think well before he answers. Here is a man who in the
scale of morality and statemanship is the most worthless
that has appeared on the political stage since the days of
the dishonest and execrable WILES, and yet we find him
in the possession of more power than any other man, or
any other five men of the highest station iu England.
He is here as our scourge. 'When. the Aliniglity punishes.
a people he generally employs, as the law does, the worst
instrument in society—the abhorred of the community—
the expelled of social life—the lowest of the vile or the
unfortunate—the conzrnon hangman. DANIEL O'CON-
NELL is our national common hangman ; and if you
doubt his fitness for the office, pray read his vulgar
speeches at Liverpool and Birmingham. What do they
contain ? The staple is lying. He is so coerced by the
tyrant demon who employs him, that he swaggers,
swears, and dips deeply into falsehood without there
being the slightest necessity or excuse fur it. The lit
does not even serve his purpose. He might be more
formidable by adhering to truth ; but such is the fatality
which oppresses him that he is doomed, in working out
his duty as a wretched old sinner who pollutes the earth,
to lie on, and swear on, and perjure on, in order that he
may be the unconscious instrument of bringing odium
and ruin upon the cause, upon the popery, upon the
principles. and upOn the reforms of which he is the hired
advocate.

To select any portion of his speeches for particular
animadversion, would be an endless and useless task.
They have been repeated as often as a devout nun
kneels to the VIRGIN MARY in the most serious six
months of her life. And vet they possess this most re-
markable peculiarity. The lords, by compact—by some
RUSSELL compact, we presume—are forgotten. There
is no brutal invective against the peers. de JocxElt Of
Norfolk" is not assailed. The rookery of Shrewsbury.is:
unmolested. The protestant nobles are permitted
escape under the frank or passport of some good Lord • •
Roman Catholic. But what, in the mum! of
is the .substituted demand ? AN EL delOapds-7.whailt tie ..
is promised—Jun.lcl,, 170. R R NiY. Prtinre,ri tiy

`bel's career, are the different circumstances under which
he has commenced the present course of agitatiOn cOm-
, pared with those which marked his progress in the north •
of England and in Scotland last autumn. Then he
preached treason'to his confraternity of blackguards, and. ,a 4
openly denounced the House of Lords. His northerti
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tour. Was a continuous lie of libel and sedition. The
peers of England were held up to ignominy in full gaze
of the Irish rabble he addressed in the manufacturing
towns. The beggar then writhed under all the pain of
disappointed hopes. His favourite measures had been
rejected by the lords. All his deep-laid schemes of plun-
der had been defeated. His very approbation of any
measure relative to Ireland was deemed a sufficient
ground for objecting to its policy and questioning the
motives and the honesty of its authors. O'CONNELL'S
name on a bill, no matter how many good names pre-
ceded and followed it, was considered taint enough to
damn the credit of the whole instrument; so that, like a
swindler's letter, it injured the reputation of the intro:
cent and retarded the fair -flow of benevolence which
would otherwise have gone on uninterrupted. In short,
the cry of DANIEL then was—Down with the Lords !
and the mob of Manchester and Glasgow shouted
amen !