The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-03-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LET RESIGN. The day which should carry over the news of such an event would see Ireland tranquil and peaceful within all her borders, ready and eager to walcome her Sovereign to her shores with all the enthusiasm of the mnst devoted loyalty. Yes! let him resign, for he is the only obstacle to the objects which he professes are so near and dear to his heart. We shall appreciate the self-sacrifice, and none will withhold the praise,  Oh, yes ! Set up a government which shall be the patron of agitators, and the protector of murderers. Send over a Normanby, to open the doors of the prisons of Tipperary and Clare; restore to liberty and fresh crime the midnight robber and the Agrarian disturber; give renewed vitality to the widespread Ribbon conspiracy; give hope to the cupidity which longs for the plunder of the owners of the soil of Ireland; proclaim the destruction of that Protestant Church which, she has sworn to defend; and with such a government—with such impunity for crime—with such incentives to outrage and bloodshed—HEß MAJESTY, a Protestant Sovereign, " will find Ireland tranquil and peacefnl in all her borders, ready and eager to welcome her to her shores, with all the enthusiasm of the most devoted loyalty"! The gaols would pour forth their thousands-to meet her. The red hand of the undetected assassin would  flourish the blood-stained bludgeon at her approach. Crime would hold jubilee in the presence of a Queen, whose message was thus one of mingled immunity for past, and of encouragement for future outrage. A Whig journalist can have the unblushing hardihood to make to the people of Englrnd, who have declared that IN :IRELAND THE LAW SHALL BE RESPECTED, a proposition so monstrous ! Yes;-the organ of a party, who, in power, ruled Ireland by a coercion bill; denounced the repeal agitation from the throne; discountenanced the agitators, as unfit for the favours of government; then truckled—  basely truckled—to those very agitators; stooped to hold office as the venal price of their support in parliament—such an organ has the fatuity to imagine that the British people have forgotten all their incapacity, and would pay so fearful a price, as the sacrifice of one of the fairest portions of their country, for the pleasure of seeing them once more revelling in Downingstreet, and dipping their " itching palms" in the Treasury! Yes : these men imagine that it is for their presence in Ireland that the torch is lighted, the bale-fires glowing from hill to hill—that all this rebellious outrage is for love of them, whom the leader of Irish agitation hag called " the base, bloody, and brutal," and the world has acknowledged as the most venal and incapable faction by whom the destinies of a great nation were ever wielded !  Strange mistake ! inconceivable blindness ! Why, it is to this very party, whose tampering with rebellion, and fondling with rebels, has been so abundantly manifested, that Ireland owes so much of her wretchedness and disorganization ;—that, in that  misguided and unhappy land, life is "cheaper".than in any country upon which even a gleard of the light of civilization has shone. But folly has its lessons to teach as well as wisdom. A straw, thrown up, shows the direction of the wind as well as the most complicated piece of machinery. A goose saved the Capitol; and this very fatuity of Whig journalism unfolds to us the present and coming policy of whiggery as palpably as if an oracle had proclaimed it, and Lord John Russell had not gone out of his way to disclaim it—as well as if we had had no nine days debate upon the affairs of Ireland, and no Whig coquetting with Ireland's convicted  disturber. The Whigs are once more ready to ride into office upon this man's shoulders—to crouch at  his feet—to pander to his griping mendacity—and,  at the allotted time, when they have sacrificed all that is high, and holy, and just, to appease his voracious appetite, they are prepared to be spurned from him, to find "in the lowest deeps a lower deep," in which they may hide their political degradation from the eyes of an incensed nation.  The petition of the electors of the city of Durham against the return of the Leaguer, John Bright, on the grounds of bribery and other violations of the law, is abandoned, as will be seen from the following paragraph, which we quote from our valued contemporary, the Durham Advertiser :