The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-24 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—You have very properly reminded the borough constituency
of Liverpool that they will in November have it in their power to se-
lect sixteen good men and true for the town council. In the interval
it is highly necessary that the conduct of the retiring members should
be scrutinised with a sober and a candid judgment, to ascertain how
far they have redeemed any pledges they may have given and whether
they have in other respects evirced that open, manly, and inde-
pendent bearing so becoming the character of her citizens, and so
valuable in the proceedings of all deliberative bodies of men, in short
whether they have exerted themselves for the interests of the com-
munity above and beyond all other considerations. The sound and
sober-minded among us will do well to consider and :impress upon
others the vast importance of the event of the approaching election,
and exert themselves accordingly ; and they should especially remem-
ber that unless the present tyranny of party in the council is weakened
or neutralized by that or some shortly succeeding election, capable
and independent men will not subject themselves to be continually
disgusted (as the few of that character in the council confess them-
selves to be) by the proceedings of the majority, and whenever this
check is removed the affairs of this great community will be gir.en up
to pillage, for after the daring inconsistencies and defiances of right
which we have seen, it is hopeless to expect that the mere expression
of a portion of the public opinion will have any effect. You will do
good, I aver, therefore, in publishing a list of the retiring members,
with their votes and general bearing, in doing which you shall not lack
such assistance as I can give you, and founding cur hopes of pro-
ducing good upon the doubts, fears, and misgivings of the retiring
parties
themselves, which they have not even the wisdom to conceal,
looking at the reaction plainly evinced at the late town meeting con-
vened by the Mayor, and the ineffable disgust occasioned by the en-
deavour to wrest from the owners the dock estate in a manner alike
subversive of all moral right, arid at variance with all Vii.od principle,
looking at the thousands who, with myself, were reformers upon con-
stitutional principles, and who finding such to be locally unfelt, un-
known, or disregarded, are desirous to retrace their steps, and looking
at the force of the common sense and common honesty party in all
large communities of Englishmen, no doubt we shall in future exert
such an influence in the town council, as well in a great measure re-
lieve the public mind from the many doubts and feaas which now op-
press it.—Yours, &c,
June 22d, 18,36.

ANTI-REFORMER.

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