But the ‘Evening Pulpit’ took the other side.  Now this was the more remarkable, the more sure to attract attention, inasmuch as the ‘Evening Pulpit’ had never supported the Liberal interest.  As was said in the first chapter of this work, the motto of that newspaper implied that it was to be conducted on principles of absolute independence.  Had the ‘Evening Pulpit,’ like some of its contemporaries, lived by declaring from day to day that all Liberal elements were godlike, and all their opposites satanic, as a matter of course the same line of argument would have prevailed as to the Westminster election.  But as it had not been so, the vigour of the ‘Evening Pulpit’ on this occasion was the more alarming and the more noticeable,—­so that the short articles which appeared...