Show BOTH SIDES LOOKED AT There is nothing within the pale of argument argu-ment to which our friends the Liberals freely resort as references to history In doing this they are entitled to the credit ol being indiscriminate using sacred and profane pro-fane written and unwritten with equal i freedom and they are additionally entitled I to the credit of being judicious in that they select only such fragments as can be construed con-strued in their favor Now what could be finer for instance than a reference to the beleaguered British soldiery with the women and children at Lucknow and just when all hope was about to be abandoned the Scotch girl JESSIE Buowx starting up and calling out Dinna ye hear the slogan 1 There is something in the incident which has a tendency to stir the sluggish blood when it is well told and the Liberal orators by making themselves and their partisans the environed ones the Peoples party the attacking natives and Judge POWERS the JESSIE BROWN put thems lve3 in possession 1 posses-sion of a dramatic situation which they I made the most of The only fault to find II with it all was the lack of harmony in the I situation For instance The sepoys who surrounded the British at Lucknow were I IIt t the owners of the soil those whom they surrounded and subjected to various indig nitics were temporary sojourners the slogan which JESSIE BUOWN hard was a signal of redemption from threatened torments tor-ments not a notification that the interlopers inter-lopers were to overrun the soil and take possession of everything whether entitled to it or not Furthermore the rebellion was begun by a native chieftain NANA SAHIB because of a gross outrage perpetrated perpetra-ted upon his wife by an officer in the British army one that among civilized and enlightened en-lightened people ho would have been shot on sight for by the indignant husband If there is anything felicitous for our friends on such a simile they are welcome to all the comfort it brings Again Immediately after the Liberal triumph of Monday last the upper deep for a short time gave up or rather down a small portion of its treasures The more imaginative among them ascribed the downpour down-pour to the fact that the fates were propitious pro-pitious that having promised free water in the event of a victory the clouds themselves them-selves were coming to the rescue and assisting them in bearing out their plighted faith The same evening a magnificent rainbow appeared in the eastern sky why cannot they and all of us go further into the depths of mysticism and say that this gorgeous emblem like the first one that appeared immediately after the great flood meant that the People should never be swamped again |