"COBDEN AND ITS COUNCILLOR."

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 599, 28 December 1869, Page 2

"COBDEN AND ITS COUNCILLOR."

( To the Editor of the Westport Times.) Sir, —In your issue of to-day I read an extract from the Grey River Arqus, being a report of a meeting hold at the school-room at Cobden, and presided over by the late defeated candidates Wilkie aud Boase, and at which these two coal-heavers appear to have used my name pretty freely. Naturally my first thoughts, on reading this report, was to write to you explaining fully what I actually did say and what I did not say. On reflection, however, I think my most sensible plan is to leave these Cobden squalling demagogues to their own devices, but at the same time to renew publicly an expression I am stated to have made—that I hold the Ranters of Cobden in the utmost contempt, and that I despise and defy them. Let me tell these spouting dolts that a man like myself, who carries the good opinion of five thousand miners on these Goldfields, is not to be put down by five or six psalm-singing hypocrites belonging to such a miserable hamlet as Cobden.— I am, sir, yours faithfully, W. N. Frankly:*, M.P.C. for Grey Valley. Dec. 25.