The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

LETTER //.

By what process of reasoning can you justify the leav-
ing of your Royal Mistress without advice as to your suc-
cessor, when you thought proper to resign the office of
First Lord. The world can well appreciate the delicacy
of your position, and also what was due to that royal per-
sonage on that occasion. But whatever credit you may
claim. or it may concede, on the t there was a duty poit.
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state paramount with every other—a duty which nothing per-
sonal to yourself, to your political opponent, or to Ma-
cjneeosptttypwirteisteehllut, could justify your neglect of, and that was, to
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only of having smoothed the war
for a Whig successor to office, but of having offered
your support to him when in. You cannot plead igno-
rance of the shuffling and destructiytines of Whig govern.
ments. You know as well as I do, tri.:t there is not a
single page in history of the 'Whig governa;fnt of this
country being other than sacrificial of its honour, and
prejudicial of its interests. With this practical experi-
ence, then, and that historical knowledge of them, how
could you reconcile the throwing of power into the hands of
men who had proved themselves capable of destroying the
constitution itself, did its destruction stand between them
and office. Reading your character from your acts, the
only solution of the riddle is to be found in your extreme
sensitiveness to be esteemed a generous adversary. Now,
no man admires candour and fair and open dealing with
an opponent more than I do. But if this be the exponent
of the mystery, it is sheer cowardice and folly, nay, you
will pardon me if I tell you that it is worse than folly, it
is all but, if not altogether, treason. As much justified
would our illustrious duke have been under an impeach-
ment, had he, with an army of a hundred thousand men,
met his great rival for military fame with fifty thousand
only on the battle field, and, in the plenitude of his gene-
rosity, discarded half of his own army to redace it to
an equality with that of his a dversary. Such an act of
egregious folly would, even though crowned with yictery
in the result, have justly cast him his life. And is your
act of madness less criminal in itself, or less offensive to
your party, than would have been his under the supposed
circumstances. On the contrary, it is more aggravated,
inasmuch as a battle lost is not necessarily a kingdom
forfeited. But a battle of the constitution lost, or rather
not fought at all, but surrendered at discretion, and the
portals of office thrown open to Whigs and Whiglings,
with a monarch educationally tinctured, if report be true,
with a predilection for that particular school of politics,
this was to open the floodgates of destruction, and pour
upon us a torrent which the unity and combined powers
of all opposing efforts might not have been able to stay.
On your owe confession you have sided with your ene-
mies, and they will crush you.
No country that ever neglected to appreciate and pre-
serve its religious liberties and privileges intact—that re-
pudiated truth and fostered error and idolatry—no such
ever prospered yet, nor preserved itself from a fall. This
is on record ; you have proof on proof in sacred, and
again and again in profane, history. Has England ne-
glected to protect her Protestant truth from the conta-
mination of idolatrous error. Let Loyola's crape cra-
vatted disciples now crowding our streets, answer the
question. While popish states are driving these vaga-
bonds away, considering them too dangerous to be domi-
ciled among themselves, although of the same religion
and country, they are encouraged to come hither by tens
of thousands. We shall reap the bitter fruit of this libe-
rality sooner than some expect. Not an angle can we
turn, but we meet with the pestiferous presence of these
marauders—these destroyers of female innocence, and of
all domestic happiness.
Shade of the indomitable Luther! could thy disem-
bodied spirit once more revisit the glimpses of the moon,
behold the havoc made by our statesmen and our bishops
with that religious liberty for which thy mighty mind and
firm heart had so nobly contended and so successfully
won, with what ineffable grief wouldst thou be over-
whelmed at the eagerness manifested, in this our day, to
fling back those Ii erties and privileges purchased for us
by thy persecutions and our English martyrs' blood.

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The struggle is commenced, a struggle heralded by the
Oxford heresy and the Tracts for the Times—counte-
nanced by England's Prime Minister, aided and abetted
by half her bishops and a large number of her clergy—all
these proclaim at once that the hour of England's peril is
at hand, that she is in extremes—that her glory is depart-
ing—that a short time will suffice to blot her out of the
map of nations, and make her a tributary and a colony of
a greater and mightier than she. This involves a previous
bloody intestine struggle, which, methinks, even you may
live to see. How far your then feelings may tell you you
have contributed to the occasion, I will not hazard the
conjecture ; but that there is a retribution of poignant
inward feeling in reserve for you—for opportunities lost,
for privileges despised, for errors of omission and those of
commission—there is not the least doubt on the mind of
him who has the honour to subscribe himself your loyal
fellow subject, JACOB FAITHFUL.