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UNPLEASANT SYMPTOMS.The result of the election of delegates for Birmingham to the ensuing conference, recorded in our columns last week, took us, we honestly confess, somewhat by surprise. We cannot but admit that, every deduction having been made on the score of the comparative smallness of the meeting, occasioned by the arbitrary conduct of theTown hall authorities, and of local irritation, excited by a fanciedslight, put upon an active chartist agitator by Mr Sturge and the council—the rejection of four out of six names nominated by the council of the Union, and the substitution in their room of avowed foes to the complete suffrage movement, wears an ugly appearance. We cannot conceal from ourselves, nor shall we attempt to conceal from our readers, that the same game may be played in many other places. We know the advantages possessed by an unscrupulous and organised minority over undisciplined numbers, however superior in point of real force. W^e are quite alive to the danger, which, probably, none have foreseen more clearly than MrFeargus O’Connor and his staff of agitators, of scaring, by means of successful insolence, back into inaction, if not into opposition, all those of the middle class who have but recently given in a timid adherence to the great principle advocated by the Union. We foresee that, here and there, men who would have done battle for the unenfranchised, will not do battle with them ; and that many a heart which would have been content to strive on behalf of just principles, will decline to take any part in a conflict, the issue of which turns only upon persons. Should, therefore, the main object of the BirminghamnnnfavcTino ilpfpntpd. flltbmifrh we cannot sav we exnect such a
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Nonconformist
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Nov 23, 1842
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