It would appear from the following article in a Kilkenny
paper, tient among the constituents of Mr. Joseph Hume, there are at least seen
who see through and despise the humbug of the pat-on-the-back-and- keep-out-the-Tory policy, which has all but ruined the Liberal cause.
"We lent our humble aid to sustain the Whigs, when their professions were no plausible and strong, some of their appointments so good, and the dread of a Tory Administration so great, that we apprehended the expulsion of Whigs from power would lead to civil war. But we have improved as a people; we need not now submit to Whig trickery; we need not now dread Tory hostility. No faction can crush 8,000,000; no power can curb the spirit of determina- tion, of intelligence, of unity, that has at last got in amongst the ranks of Irish patriots. Therefore we believe the general cry throughout the couutry before she meeting of Parliament will be—' Overboard with the Whigs, defiance to the Tories, hurrah for Repeal, and success to the People !' A Mw days since, we said the Whigs were botches: the increasing insecurity of their position, owing to their own misconduct and treacherous manteuvres, daily affords proof that they are botches, unwilling as unfit to govern well. We confided in them long ; what have we got in return? Anawer, any friend of the Whigs—what have we got in return for our support of them? A few appointunnts—some rood, others middling, and many bad. Look to the Magistracy —the Whigs are reappointing the parsons ; look to the Northern Yeomanry—they are not disarmed ; look everywhere, and see how little has been changed. We must try a new experiment ; and that is, to pall no longer in the sane boat with the Whigs. Let them be flung overboard, and we shall work the gallant vessel into safe harbour by the strength of ' our right arms,' labouring unaided at the Dries."..-Kilkenuy journal.
" Honest Joseph" may well be feeling his way among other con. stituencies.
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