The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-01-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE HYPOCRISY OF THE LEAGUE TOWARDS THE FARMERS.—" We can never carry the measure oursekes : we must have the agricultural labourers with us 1" They therefore proceeded to commence operations upon the agricultural constituencies. They knew they could always reckon upon a share of support wherever they went—it being hard to find any country without its cluster of bitter and reckless opponents of a conservative government, who would wilhugly aid in arty demonstration against it. With such aid, and indefatigable efforts to collect a crowd of noisy non-electors: with a judicious choice of localities. and proruse bribery of the local radical newspape,s, in order to procure copious accouots of thei proceedings—they commenced their " grto.d series of country triumphs 1" Their own or,ons. r..rin time to time, gave out that. in each and every county visited by the League, the farmers attended their meetings, and joined in a vote condemnatory of the corn-laws, ano pledged themselves to vote thereafter for none but •he candidates of the Anti-corn-law League ! The followin are specimens of the flittering appellations which had til now ' een bestowed, upon their new friends, upon the, selfsame farmers :—" Bull-frogs 1" " chew-bacons I' " clodpnles I" " hair-bucks!" " deluded slaves I" " bru drudges !" Now, however, they and their labourers wer, ,addressed in terms of respectful sympathy and flattery, a., the victims of the rapacity of the landlords—on whom were poured the full phials of anti-corn-law wrath. Th, following are some of the scalding drops let fall upon thei devoted heads :—" Monster of impiety !" " inhuma fiend !" " heartless brutes !" " rapacious harpies !" " relentless demons!" "plunderers of the people !" " mer ciless footpads!" " murderers!" "swindlers!" "hiss tiable !" " insolent !" "flesh-mongering!" " scoundrel!' " law-making landlords !" " a bread-taxing oligarchy !" Need we say that the authors of these very choice an, elegant expressions were treated with utter contempt t. both landlords and tenants—always making the few allow ances above referred to ? Was it very likely that 11. landlord or the farmer should quit their honourable an important avocations at the bidding of such creatures t had thus intrtried themselves into their counties ? shoot. consent to be yoked to the car, or to follow in the train these enlightened, disinterested, and philanthropic cotto spinners and calico-printers ? Absurd ! It became, fact, daily more obvious to even the most unrefl-ctint that these worthies were not likely to he httaged in the " labours of love ;" were not exactly the kind of permit, to desert their own businesses, to attend out of pure b neyolence that of others—to let succumb their own terests to promote those of others ; to subscribe out 'he gains which they had wrung from their unhappy far tory slaves their £lO. £2O, £3l). £5O, out of mere pubr ,pit it and philanthropy —" Positiortand Prospects of IL Government," in Blackwood's Magazine. It is go •d to he children sometimes, and cever bet 'lmo at Christmas, when its Mighty Founder was a chi: ~onselt.—Diekens