candidateship

If the requisite majority of three-fourths of the votes of the Assembly could not be secured in its favor, it must be abandoned; and hence, "any attempt having for its object to urge the people toward unconstitutional candidateship, from the moment that the Constitution can not be legally revised, would not only be improper and irregular, but culpable."

I am told that our opponents behaved ungenerously and unjustly—perhaps they did; at all events, the end of the contest left us without a single acquaintance, and we stood alone in our glory of beaten candidateship, after three months of unheard-of fatigue, and more meanness than I care to mention.

Macaulay in his day wrote many brilliant squibs in the Times; amongst them one containing the line: "Ye diners out, from whom we guard our spoons," and another on the subject of Wat Banks's candidateship for Cambridge.

The Irish opposition now turned to another topic, and brought forward the Roman Catholics for the candidateship of the legislature.

All the different shades of the Opposition, M. de La Fayette and M. de Châteaubriand, M. Dupont de l'Eure and the Duke de Broglie, M. Odillon Barrot and M. Bertin de Veaux, seconded my candidateship.