The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-30 00:00:00

skips' etestion subservient. Are we wrong in seek-
ing to stimulate the zeal of the Christian electors of
Liverpool in a contest involving such important issues ?
Electors of Liverpool! ate you satisfied with the
proceedings of the liberal majority in the too n coun-
oil t Do you approve of their acts ? Have they done
nothing to forfeit your confidence ? Take a brief re-
view of their career; anti then say whether they have
acquitted themselves honestly and impartially.
What have the liberals done since they have be.
come " lords paramount" at the council board ? Look
at their first act—the insult which they deliberately
offered to the electors of Liverpool by investing the
rejected candidates at the first election with the alder-
manic dignity. Look at the next step which they took
In redemption of their oft-repeated professions of im-
partiality--the dismissal of the old, tried, and faithful
servants and officers under the corporation, for the
sake of providing for their political scouts and re-
tainers. Look, again, at their monopolising and
grasping policy in reference to the Dock trust, to
which they refused to nominate a single conservative.
Look, again, to the exclusive spirit which they ntani
tested in preparing lists for the appointment of magis-
trates. Call to mind their meetings "in secret con.
tiara" at the Angel Inn, to deliberate upon and pre-
determine measures which ought only to have been
discussed in open council. Look, again, at their in-
famous conduct on the school question. Have they not
practically excluded the children of Protestant parents
from the corporation schools, whilst nearly all the
money appropriated to the maintenance of those schools
is derived from the pockets of Protestants ? Have
they not converted the only public schools of the town
into Popish seminaries ? Look, once more, on the
conduct of the faction in reference to the warehouse
question. Has not this notable scheme been prompted
by the same love of patronage by which they have
ever been distinguished ?
Electors of Liverpool ! ponder over these things
before you give your votes on Thursday. Remember,
that the triumph of the radicals on that day may, and
probably will, lead to mote aggravated instances of
monopolising illiberality than those which we have
enumerated. Are you willing to risk so dangerous a
contingency ? Do you wish for a little more tyranny
in the town council ? If you do—if you really are so
infatuated as to " love the yoke and hug the chain"—
then vote incontinently for the radical candidates. We
do not, however, believe you are so blintlly.oblivious
of your own interests, and the prosperity of the town.
Merchants of Liverpool ! what obligations do you
owe to the liberal majority in the town council ?
When your interests have been. perilled by the infa
tuated and doltish policy of the present imbecile
ministry, have these gentlemen
,ever ventured to offer
a tingle remonstrance on your behalf ? Oh ! no—they
would sooner see the commerce of Liverpool anni-
hilated, and its shipping destroyed or confiscated, than
take any step which might alarm or disturb their very
good friends on the treasury benches.
Tradesmen of Liverpool! what have the liberals done
for you ? Have any of you experienced the benefit
of their patronage, unless you have evinced a willing-
ness to " go the whole hog" with them on political
matters ? Has it conduced to your interests that the
corporation contracts have, in several cases, been given
to distant strangers?
Operatives of Liverpool! can you point out any
benefits. which you have derived from the ascendancy
of the Reformers? Have they carried on any public
Works—introduced any public improvements of import-
Inca, to give you employment ? Where is there any
evidence of their encouragement to trade out of the
sorporate funds? Echo answers, where ?
Freemen of Liverpool ! are you not under obligations
which can never be cancelled to the liberals ? Have
they not tried, by every trick and chicanery in their
power, to rob you of your birthrights—to deprive you
ea privilege to which you are as justly entitled as any
one of these tyrannical Radical plunderers is to the
Goat to his back, and perhaps more so ? You certainly
are under very deep and lasting obligations to the
Reformers in the Town Council, and we feel assured
that you will take due care to repay them. We hope
that not a single freeman will record his vote for a
liberal candidate on Thursday next.
Licensed Victuallers of Liverpool ! to whom are you
indebted for the depreciation in value of your licences,
and the permanent injury inflicted upon your trade,
by the recent grants of new licences ? Is it not to the
reform magistrates of the borough—men who have
been promoted to the office at the instance of the libe-
rals in the Town Council ? Did the old tory magis•
trates treat you so cavalierly ? Will you vote again
for those who have so " liberally" despoiled you of
your property ?
Electors of Liverpool ! on Thursday next let your
votes be recorded on behalf of the Conservative candi-
dates—the true reformers—the genuine liberals.
As a parting advice we would suggest to our Con-
servative friends to record their votes at an early hour
of the day—those who have only single votes, at least
before ten o'clock—those who have duplicate votes, as
soon as the relative strength of parties in the respective
wards is ascertained. Let promptitude and vigilance,
seal and perseverance, be the motto of every Conser-
Pativt, and victory shall be his reward.