by anonymous

“ All you who, though freemen, yet dare to be free,
Spite of tyrants and slaves, come and listen to me;
I sing how Conservative roguery mocks
All your honest intents by a Bribery Box.
⁠Derry down, down,
⁠down, derry down.
Independent and virtuous, you set at defiance
Dictation and bribes; with the strongest reliance
On victory, you went to the charge firm as rocks,
When the enemy set up a Bribery Box. ”

“ We say this would be but fair, because the Tories, with as little reason, have a thousand times demanded, "What good has the Reform Bill done?"—knowing, full well, that no benefit could possibly result from that measure until a Parliament, chosen under the new system, had been elected, and that, even then, the results could only be slowly developed. But the effects of the dominance of Toryism, in our city, come more rapidly. ”

“ They are, unhappily, not quite in accordance with the delusion held forth; on the contrary, they furnish a proof that that delusion never will be realised, and that the insolence of the Tory faction, inflated by its late success, is calculated rather to drive property away from the city, than to extend its commercial intercourse. ”