terfere.
The whig newspaper said roundly of the first of Mr. Gladstone's two
addresses, that a more jumbled collection of words had seldom been sent
from the press. The tory paper, on the contrary, congratulated the
constituency on a candidate of considerable commercial experience and
talent. The anti-slavery men fought him stoutly. They put his name into
their black schedule with nine-and-twenty other candidates, they
harried him with posers from a pamphlet of his father's, and they met
his doctrine that if slavery were sinful the Bible would not have
commended the regulation of it, by bluntly asking him on the hustings
whether he knew a text in Exodus declaring that 'he that stealeth a man
and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put
to death.' His father's pamphlets undoubtedly exposed a good deal of
surface. We cannot be surprised that any adherent of these standard
sophistries should be placed on the black list of the zealous soldiers
of humanity. The candidate held to the ground he had taken at Oxford and
in his election address, and apparently made converts. He had an
interview with forty voters of abolitionist complexion at his hotel, and
according to the friendly narrative of his brother, who was present, 'he
shone not only in his powers of conversation, but by the tact,
quickness, and talent with which he made his replies, to the thorough
and complete satisfaction of baptists, wesleyan methodists, and I may
say even, of almost every religious sect! Not one refused their vote:
they came forward, and enrolled their names, though before, I believe,
they never supported any one on the duke's interest!'

ISSUES ADDRESS AT NEWARK

The humours of an election of the ancient sort are a very old story, and
Newark had its full share of them. The register contained rather under
sixteen hundred voters on a scot and lot qualification, to elect a
couple of members. The principal influence over about one quarter of
them was exercised by the Duke of Newcastle, who three years before had
punished the whigs of the borough for the outrage of voting against his
nominee, by serving, in concert with another proprietor, forty of them
with notice to quit. Then the trodden worm turned. The notices were
framed, affixed to poles, and carried with bands of music through the
streets. Even the audacity of a petition to parliament was projected.
The duke, whose chief fault was not to know that