unmeasured abuse from the Morning Chronicle and the Globe, down to the Manchester Guardian and a host of provincial whig journals, which, professing to love free trade very much, loved whiggism much more. In the Manchester Guardian, of the 2nd of January, I find the following passage, in reference to what is called the escapade at Walsall, and copy it as a specimen of the sort of stuff which, in all ages, men of mere expediency throw in the way of an assertion of principle:—
The obvious object of all this was to create a schism in the League, now beginning to exercise a power which might be very dangerous to men in office, to whom "certain dogmas called principles" are not often acceptable. If a portion of that body could be induced to declare for ministers and their "moderate" fixed duty, while another portion called "impracticables" demanded total repeal, the Association would be broken up or rendered powerless. The League, however, adhered to its declared constitution and justified the proceedings of its deputation to Walsall. On the 4th January Mr. John Ballantyne, its secretary, was directed to write to the Morning Chronicle, that in putting to Mr. Lyttelton the test of immediate repeal, "the Council had but fulfilled