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he sorry to hear that they are, but till we are better in-,
formed we shall not believe that, they will submit to such
a system even to save the whole of the slave states from
confusion and civil war. Far-better
:separate the north
from the south than be so insulted and degraded. Far
better cut the painter at. once than make slaves of the
whole mass. Far better for the one section of the citi-
zens to wash their Lands of the whole thing than be par-
•ties to tl e infamies and iniquities which a new avid
extended slave code is required to protect and perpe-
tuate.

As to the postoflice, all its rigorous enactments, and
all its violations of law, cannot prevent the circulation of
antislavery documents. If letters are to be opened and
examined, merchants will be compelled to adopt some
other mode of transmitting their correspondence. The
mail carts would consequently very soon carry nothing
but their drivers and the government despatches. There-
venue would decline, and ten thousand magazines, pam-
phlets, and newspapers would be forced upon the slave
population for one which finds its way at present. This
madness carries with,it its own cure, namely, the de-
struction of those who seek protection at the expense of

justice.

DANIEL, the whig missionary, has, we believe, reached
the end of his yarn in Scotland, and is now, we presume,
working his passage to a more congenial soil. He ex-
pended the last pailful of his Irish slops and holy-water
upon the bailies and radicals of Paisley, and if he had
drowned the former in the foul mess it would have been
an act of kindness and mercy to all respectable and intel-
ligent persons in that part of the world.
The poor old vain braggart, in his green cap and his
green breeks, has had his hour and his benefit, like any
other mountebank on the stage. -He has not been inter-
rupted—he has not been hooted, hksed, or pelted, as Sir
Jo•rfN HoenousE has more than once; and we rejoice to
say that hehas escaped " scot free," without being duck-
ed in a horse-pond or dragged through the delectable
stream of the Molendinar burn, pure as his own con-
science and sweet as a hedge-priest in the dug-days. He
has had all the talk to himself, and a mighty torrent of
sedition, treason, calumny, and falsehood he has been
allowed to utter; but, after all, what harm has the beggar
done ? None; except to himself, his employers in .the
ministry, and his Masters the monks of May nooth.
First, as concerns DANIEL. He has now fairly and ex-
plicitly shown the people of England and Scotland what
he is and what he wants. They have hitherto not had
any opportunity of ascertaining or understanding the
true nature of the agitator's character. They have
hitherto only considered him in the light of an advocate
on behalf of the people of Ireland—an interested and
hireling advocate, it is true—but still one whom they
never suspected of being inimical to the protestant insti-
tutions of Great Britain. He blustered and whined
about the " wrongs of Ireland and the finest peasantry in
the world" according to MS' instructions, taking care at
the same time never to touch in the remotest degree
upon the diseased part of the system, the popish leprosy,
the superstitious infection, and the consequent ignorance
and depravity whence has sprung all the evils and wrongs
of Ireland. He told a tale of misery, invariably guard-
ing himself against any admission of the fact that he him-
self fed upon the alms. which, being extorted from the
vilest of the poor, produced the misery he pretended to
deplore, but which furnished a rich harvest to his idle
family. He declaimed upon misgovernment and oppres-
sion, and the gaping fools who listened to him and
heartily sympathised with him never dreamt that he
meant more than to obtain for his countrymen a partici-
pation in all the civil rights, franchises, and immunities
of the people of England. They never till now sus-
pected O'CoNNELL of meditating any designs against the
protestant religion of the land, and our constitutional mo-
Earchv, as established at the revolution.
Had DANIEL continued to talk to fools according
to their folly, he might, by flattering their weak-
ness, and by ministering to their ignorance, have
maintained some ascendancy over their passions. But
he has been guilty of the unexpected imprudenCe of
opening their eyes, and exhibiting his pretensions in a
clearer light. He has endeavoured by means of calumny
and falsehoodlo prrjuitee the-people against the-Hous-es
of Lords. He has flung away the mask, and he has tried
hard to persuade the people to throw away the scabbard,
and rush headlong into rebelli(7.l atrd destruction. He
has denounced our hereditary peerage, and has thus, by
inuendo, denounced our hereditary monarch. He has,
like a skulking coward, struck at the king through his
nobles; and has endeavoured to demolish the temple by
undermining its pillars. * Has he succeeded ? No. He
has only succeeded in exposing himself. He has only
succeeded in turning folly into shame, pity into execra-
tion, and he goes home to his " beggar's dish," doubly
despised by many, and utterly detested by the great ma-
jority of the people of England and Scotland. We,
therefore, for the present, leave him to his reflections.
Second, as concerns his employers in the ministry.
O'CoNNELL is, or he is not, the chief ally and mainstay

of the MELBOURNE administration. We know that but
for him and his worthless tail the ministry would have
been in a minority even in the House of Commons. We
have, therefore, the right to assume that Lord MEL-
BOURNE and his wretched colleagues are under the deep-
est obligations to DANlEL—obligations which would not
be too amply compensated were they to pay over to him
a moiety of their united salaries. Under these circum-
stances is it not natural to infer that the demagogue went,
forth on his infamous mission with their full consent and
concurrence? They may not have said do this or do
thaOut it is exceedingly probable they did say—you may
say and do what yoU please, we shall not Interfere with
you, provided you do not directly and by name attack
the King.
If one-tenth, or even one hundredth part of this were.
said, in what a repulsive position would the servants of
the King stand ? The proof; perhaps, will come out
hereafter, and for that we are content to wait.
But assuming that O'CONNELL is not the hired mis-
sionary of the MELBOURNE administration—that there is
no connivance between him, Lord JOTIN RUSSELL, dnd
others—that DANIEL and the ministry are quite indepen-
dent of each other—that his love for them is purely pla-
tonic, and that it is not reciprocated--assuming all this
for the sake of argument, in what better situation are the
ministers of the crown placed. If they did not encourage
his seditious
.and treasonable proceedings, they suffered
them, they tolerated them, they did not punish them !
•We give them the benefit of either view of the case.
They are guilty of covert encouragement, or they are
guilty of tolerating that which was in the highAt degree
'criminal, insulting to the King as the first hereditary
peer, and to . every peer of parliament. We care not
which plea they put in--they may make their choice.
They stand i❑ full view of the people of England as ac-
cessaries before and after the fact—they were either
privy to the conspiracy or they winked at it.
Gentlemen, whigS of England, members of the MEL-
BOURNE administration, you are placed by this heartless

agitator who rides over you, who has you in his power
and despises you, as he has told you a thousand times—

you ate:placed in no enviable position- The intelligentpeo-
ple of this country now know of what materials yoU are
framed--by what principle you are actuated ; and as sure
as there is ink in the pen which writes these words you
are, as a party—boom-4W You never can survive the
indignation which this profligate incendiary, covered by
your official shield, has roused against you. As a party
your day is over—your coffin is measured—your grave is
dug; and we pray Gob that when your names are
forgotten, the evils you have inflicted or would inflict
upon your country, may not be avenged upon your
children and their possessions.
Thirdly, as concerns DANIEL'S masters the monks of
Maynooth.
The church of Rome has for the last few years been
making unexampled but desperate efforts to restore
popery in these realms. But it has overlooked one
principle which must be strictly regarded in all conspira
ties before it is possible to secure anything like lasting
success. We allude to the honesty, the fidelity, btit,
above all, the prudence of the . agents. A shrewd man,
whether in alotAl or bad cause, although hut master of
moderate talents, is capable of achieving that which the