The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-01 00:00:00

Trade, thus far

poor man
co

irnption ; to g

shipping- and lower freights, by the repeal of our
Navigation Laws; to reduce, or sweep away alto-
gether, our Excise duties ; to confiscate the nrn-

sources of revenue, to confi

of the countr

by throwing upon it th

;hen of paying, by'means of a system of d
tion, the national creditor and the exnendi

of the army, the navy, and the Government.
Probably the carrying out of this policy to its
ultra point is only a question of time. We believe
sincerely that such is the case. Already there are
in parliament and in the country men prepared to
*P. and to - ntion; and it

for, its ado

Jecomes the constituencies, in determining

upon the course they are to pursue in the approach-
ing general election, to ask themselves how far. the
country is prepared to undergo a change of its
policy so vast and so utterly revolutionary. Are
they prepared to confide the interests of the coun-

yto the keeping of men so rash and so- impetu-
is in pursuing theirfavourite dogmas and theories ?

ion not without a definite reason

Lucre ue 1/CIAVCCII a conservative, wno nas supported
the repeal of the Corn Laws, and a Whig-Radical,

s shown

consistent and honest man What difference is
there between the Conservative who has

given a

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dency towards the Protestantism of the empire,
and the Papist or Infidel, except that the latter has
betrayed no trust, and was an open enemy ?
Hence, we will take no part in the coming election
or, if we do, it will be to read a lesson of political
and religious apostacy." Undoubtedly such par-
ties have cohnfrable, and even sound, reason on
their side, If the fate of an empire were not at
stake, we might gratify our feelings of just indig-
nation by refusing to sanction, by any movement
in their behalf, the claims of men who have
deceived us by their past conduct upon any ques-
tion, regarded by us as of vital import, or involv-
ing a great principle. But the fate of the Empire
is at stake, and that fate must be materially in-
fluenced by the composition of the next Parliament.
Great Britain and her Institutions are placed upon
the acclivity of a precipice ; and it depends upon
the strength of the retarding power to decide
whether the descent is to be gradual, and perhaps
an innocuous one, or it is to be a rapid fall and a
crash, destructive to all that is valuable connected
with them. At such a crisis, to 'stand by in sullen
indifference is to precipitate that fall and its ac-
companying destruction.

"Yet in too many constituencies we find conserva-
tives judging as they would not be judged—hastily
—and condemning as they would not be con-
detnned—ha,rshly and vindictively—for past errors
of omission or commission, men who upon the
majority of the questions now unsolved by the,
legislature agree with them ; men sincerely attached
to their country, and earnestly desirous of advanc-
ing its honour, and promoting the religious and
social welfare of the people. Men of all sides of
political opinion are to be found embued with this
rash and suicidal spirit. The Conservative Pro-
testant will risk the return of an enemy of the
Protestant Institutions of the land, rather than