The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

on hand.

Qt bt Ztherpool (Otanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1842

The gratifying unanimity which prevailed at the
meeting, held yesterday, to decide upon the candidate
to be brought forward by the Conservative party at
the approaching election, furnishes a sufficient reply
to the chuckling of the now powerless Whig faction
over the alleged divisions of opinion existing amongst
the Conservatives of Liverpool. We can now tell our
opponents proudly that we are no broken, disorganised,
spiritless host. We have no difference—and we have
bad no difference—of opinion with respect to the illus-
trious individual who is selected to fight our battle.
The merchants, the tradesmen, and the operatives of
this loyal borough will rally, in one united phalanx,
and in resistless strength, beneath the banner of Sir
HOWARD DOUGLAS; and they laugh at the feeble
efforts of their prostrate opponents to create division
in their ranks, or to damp the enthusiasm with which
they are prepared to struggle for the cause of their
country and her venerated institutions—to add another
to the long list of triumphs which they have already
achieved in behalf of the monarchy, the church, and
the liberties of this great nation.
To the gallant candidate himself so unanimous a
lisplay of enthusiastic feeling in his behalf cannot fail
to be flattering, as it is most honourable to the Con-
servatives of Liverpool. The long array of influential
names which were present at this meeting, to record
their approval of Sir Howard's claims and fitness, is
in itself sufficient to stamp that gallant officer as al-
ready the chosen of all that is loyal and Conservative
amongst us. Our fellow-townsmen have shown that
they are not the unstable and fickle beings who will
turn their backs to-day upon the recorded opinions of
yesterday. " TRusTv AND TRUE," the appropriate
motto of one of the Douglas race, might now, with
equal propriety be emblazoned upon the banner of the
Conservative electors of Liverpool; and we do not he-
sitate to assure the gallant Sir Howard, and the oppo-
nents of his claims on the present occasion, that he
and they will find no flinching in the coming contest ;
but that the entire Conservatism of the borough will
be found in readiness on the day of trial to place in
overwhelming strength upon
.the poll the champion of
its choice.
With respect to the qualifications of Sir Howard
Douglas for the important position which he is called
upon to occupy, we need not enlarge. They are well
known amongst us, and throughout the empire. To
those of our opponents, however, who object to hirr
as not being, though well versed in the theory of com-
merce—though acquainted with all our commercial re-
lations with other countries, and possessing a lonl
experience of the wants and working of the trade of out
colonial empire—himself a commercial man, we woulc
recommend a perusal of the admirable address of Mr,
Samuel Holme, which will he found reported at length
in another column. Let the gentlemen in question
look in that mirror for a correct reflection of their
amazing inconsistency ;—let them glance through the
long list of non-commercial candidates, in whose lauda-
tion they have yelped in chorus in years gone by—at
the number of the illustrious obscure, consisting of
horse-racing Lords, second-rate speechifiers and brief-
less barristers, in just proportions, for whom they have
shouted and agitated,—and we do think that on the
score of modesty and decency alone, if from no other
consideration, it would become our sapient friends of
the Whig-Radical camp to be discreetly silent. Creep
into a walnut-shell, good gentlemen, and rant no more !

To the loyal Protestant Operatives of Liverpool,
whose presence at this meeting contributed materially
to the pleasing and proud picture of Conservative
strength which it presented, we must express our sin-
cere congratulations. In the gallant candidate, whose
cause is now in their hands, they have a sincere church-
man and. an unflinching Protestant,—one who will not
surrender one stone of our national establishment, or
one tittle of our national faith, to the hand of the de-
stroyer. He has already proved himself the ardent
friend of scriptural education for the children of all
classes of the population of Great Britain and her
colonies; and to his firmness, his honesty, and his un-
swerving sincerity, our Protestant fellow-townsmen
may look up with confidence for a zealous advocacy in
the 'louse of Commons, and with the Government
itself, of sound scriptural principles as the leading fea-
tures of any system of education which may be pro-
vided for the people at the national cost. Upon this
point we recommend to the perusal of our readers the
address of Sir Howard on the first occasion of his
coming forward for Liverpool, which was read at the
meeting by James Aspinall, Esti., and will be found in

definite measures.
That these are the feelings and opinions of the com-
mercial constituency of Liverpool we confidently be-
lieve; and that they will give expression to them by
returning, as their representative, a gentleman prepared
to support the government of the right honourable
baronet against all the mere chattering by which it will
be opposed. Let the local faction, whose ceaseless
prate is of " monopoly " and "restrictions," bring
forward, if they dare, one of their most shining lights
to contest the representation of Liverpool with Sir
Howard Douglas, and the electors will point to the
bankruptcies, the poverty, the crimes which Whig le-
gislation has brought down upon Great Britain ; they
will point to the mass of suffering and wretchedness
which is around them, as the realization of the abun-
dant promises of the past ten years of "liberal" rule—
and laugh to scorn the attempt once more to palm
upon their credulity mere chattering incapacity for
statesmanlike ability—a senseless parrot for the bird
of Jove.

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