The Sun. — 1852-02-25 (London, England)

THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD  REFORM ASSOCIATION. (PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDA.Y.) Sir,—l told you how things were going, an d that if these men would not come up to the mark of what the House of Commons desired, somebody else 'would. When a patient dies of a long course of what is sometimes called good living, it is not the last glass of wine that is to be charged with bis overthrow; it is the glasses administered by what styled themselves his hiends, in days when a wiser conduct in all might have enabled him to set at defiance the present risk of death. It is among observable plimuomena, that the same Government which had a majority of 92 v 'lien a charge was brought against it, was in a minor.ity of 11 on a disputed question of policy. The reasco is plain enough. When a charge is brought, men of integrity will go great lengths with the principle, of viewing it as a question of whether they thiole on that charge the Government ought to be turned out. But they will not do the same when the question is whether a regular or a local militia is best calculated to prevent or repel invasion. Some may go to some event ; but the extent and the number will be vastly reduced, as was shown in the present case. Indeed there would be few things more tinier, aeonable, than to expect that a man with any tof Loh of personal acquaintance with a subject, and consequently responsible to his own opinion and feat of associates for honest conduct, should deliberately vote worse better on a practical question, out of a theoretic fear that a Government should thereupon imitate the bearing of the proverbially headstrong animals, who in days of old "ran violently dowa a steep place into the see." My own opinion is (to parody the title of an art idle I used when a boy to pursue through the numbers of the "Arminian Magazine") that this is " God's Revenge against Murder and Adultery" committ ail at the Cape ; for Adultery substituting the burning of Mission houses, which happened to be " the sin They had a mind to." An insane Gessler demands t o put his toes upon a black chieftain's neck, and thus rouses a war to the knife between the races. An equally insane department of Government at home, expands three millions in support of the toes, and then s ales it never wanted anything but a naval station. There was some added cant about Christianity and civilisation (meaning thereby the burning of the Mis sion houses), which, if my -theory be true, must have helped to turn the scale to the side of retribution. And now you have got it. Every shilling's worth of damage done to a Kafieg bullock, is likely to be titken threefold out of West-Riding looms. You will say,. it hits the wrong men. And so it does. Retx ibulion always hits the wrong men ; by way of showing to them, that they must lift up their voices and a pare not, and what is more, must do it in time to prevent. You must pay now, because you did not forward your Memorial from Bradford half a dozen years. ago. The Free Traders in Parliament have got what they have long that of the m Government. been hankering after, a Protecli onist They bad always some theory like who should say, if he could only contrivemen who by this time biaan\hvo:se on fire what a nice new cane he would build. shall see what comes of it. The ought not to have had a leg to stand upon,—whomTil jest to suppose holding should have been a joke and a their heads as statesmen uparetbnow set on horseback, Yogur and public men at at, will of you before could open enemies are in your uorp ie) veith every chance of having the end of their race. n his mouth the saddle. Every man who were "no where," is now in office against you in parliament, while to trywn defenders were upon you. It may all be for the best ; his but tanas the pour Indian princess said that I once told you of, "If I could have had my way, there should have been more hats le ours verft upon y si the ncerely, field." I am, Sir, y AN