The country will speak to-day. And it will speak with its fullest tones of authority. Everyman in the colony who has thought it worth his while to assure the franchise for himself can this day use it. And no man without danger to his personal liberty can vote more than once.
Liberalism can speak to-day if it only has the mind to.
And there is no reason to doubt as to its inclinations. The sole point to be determined is as to what Victorian Liberalism, fully articulate, has to say to the impudent attempt to cozen it. Certainly there never has been a crisis in Victorian history when the party of progress had more of its own credit at stake than, it has to-day. It has been openly challenged to show its strength, and a more insolent challenge it is almost impossible to conceive. A bunch of the extreme Tories of the colony is appealing to the people to discard all their old natural leaders and send in the antiquated fossils of Conservatism to speak in their names.