TOPICS OF THE DAY.
ONE WORD OF ADVICE TO THE ELECTORS.
REFORMERS can recognize only two classes of persons at the pre- sent moment—those who are Tories, and those who are not ; the first the friends of misrule and the supporters Of all ahnses; the second the friends of good government, the supporters of all rational and safe reforms.
It is necessary that the electors should determine on the one great and specific object to be kept in view—to suspend the considera- tion of all minor differences, and in the strength of their unity to defeat the common enemy. There is but one way to accomplish this efeetnally: which is, to suffer no division of the Liberal forces ; but on the contrary to con- centrate them, and to treat every person who comes forward as a candidate, without substantial grounds for success, as an enemy and traitor to the one great cause—to consider unworthy of it, every individual who allows his own vanity or selfish interests to divide or weaken the common strength. More than ever is it necessary to abandon personal interests and private feelings. Our opponents are numerous, rich, and unprin- cipled: with them the struggle will be as desperate as one for life or death necessarily must be. Their success depends altoge- ther on our divisions, if we have any : their defeat is certain. if we be but united.
It is difficult, from the nature of the subject, to lay (bell prac- tical rule i which may be universally applicable : but in rerg case union is essential to success.
In every city, county, and borough, regulate the menber of your candidates according to the force yon possess; do not inn the risk of losing one Member by attempting to return two. The Liberal electors ought everywhere to meet, end decide upon the candidate who will carry most rotes to thepotl : and our frank recommendation is, that in all cases the minority ought to give way, if their perseverance gives the remotest chance of vie tory to the enemy. The really eligible candidates who may thus be compelled to retire, will have no difficulty, if they retire in time, of finding other constituencies ; for we can positively assure them, that there is at present a far greater scarcity of good candidates than of mule- pendent constituencies.
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