A STIRRING ADDRESS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3556, 20 May 1880, Page 2

A STIRRING ADDRESS.

The Liverpool Mercury says that among the many excellent addresses by which Liberal candidates have sought to vindicate their position, few read better than that of Stuart Ren del to the electors of the county of Montgomery. Mr Kendel asks the constituency to pronounce Lord Beaconsfield "Guilty of a wilful lethargy at home, and a ;ierverie restlessness abroad—guilty or purchasing sham victories at the price of impossible obligations—guilty of playing fast and loose v with Turkey to her destruction, and Greece to our discredit—guilty of waggering in circulars and of cringing in conventions—guilty of wasting our resources and perplexing our in* dustry—guilty of shiftiness in evading the debt which he recklessly incurred— guilty to the last in his pretejre that his ascendency is necessary to preserve the nation, which he strives to exhibit to the world as rent by internal dissensions." Mr Kendel announces himself prepared to prove that this is really the verdict from which the Prime Minister can no longer escape... Seldom have we fallen across a paragraph so true and powerful as the following:—" Of all the insults and calumnies with which a party intoxicated by unaccustomed power and envenomed by longstored malice bag sought to bespatter us, that which now. asperses the name, of Mr Gladstone! his priceless services to the state, and the imperishable and national treasure of his pure aid lofty character, is the basest."