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ranks,[1] and what bond of union can there be among you beyond the Adullamite principle of associating together "all that are discontented"?
If you carefully examine the Election addresses of the Liberal Candidates you will find three topics to be their common burden—Finance—the Irish Church—and the defects of the Reform bill. There is a fourth upon which their unanimous silence seems more than accidental—their past Foreign Policy.
Upon the first of these I would observe briefly, that facts are at variance with their misrepresentations. The second I can safely leave to the defence of its friends. For me it is sufficient to know as Mr. Angerstein says, that "it has faithfully preached the truth"—that its preservation is an article of the constitution—and that it is the great adversary of that enemy of all Liberty—the Romish Hierarchy. I am not forgetful that in times gone by, when our last Papist Sovereign made his attack on the Church and Liberties of England (for the two have been hitherto inseparable,) a Quaker was his adviser, and a "Declaration of Indulgence"—the Liberal prelude to his sinister designs.
With respect to the third—It will be time to consider the rate paying clauses,—a grievance, when those
- ↑ The London Review of Sept. 19th, deplores the unhappy coupling of the names of Mr. Mill and Mr. Bradlaugh (see note page 5,) and asks, "what community of ideas or interest can there be between such a man as Mr. Mill and one like Mr. Bradlaugh, who calls a minister of the Gospel, a "rat faced preacher," publishes a description of the Messiah as "a Jewish peasant of low birth, subject to maniacal delusions," and cheers his readers by permitting the Day of Judgment to be anticipated in his paper as "a blazing exhibition of fireworks."? The answer to all this is—there is a community of ideas or interest,' else why should Mr. Mill subscribe to promote the successful candidature of Mr, Bradlaugh?
