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ON THE PARLIAMENTARY PLEDGES TO BE REQUIRED OF CAN DIDATES AT THE ENSUING ELECTIONS.
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An Address to the Electors of Great Britain .
In every point of view , and in the estimate of all parties , the ensuing elections are of peculiar and immense importance . Their results will not only verify or disprove the predictions of the enemies of reform ; they will not only revive the apprehensions or strengthen the hopes of the timid friends of reform , but they will exercise an influence , the extent of which it is impossible to
calculate , —an immediate influence on the internal condition of our country , and its external relations ; while more remotely , they will affect the national character , the prospect of national prosperity and improvement , the interests of freedom and civilization in every country of Europe , and thus , eventually , the condition of the whole human race . At such a time it may be allowed to
an individual , however unknown , to address himself to the great body of his fellow electors , on whom there devolves so deep a responsibility , to express his own sense of the importance of the trust which to many thousands is now confided for the first time , and of the duties which it implies , to ourselves , to our yet unrepresented fellow countrymen , and even to those of other nations
and of generations yet unborn . Ripe as the people are for that extension of the elective franchise which has been obtained , and which is indeed simply the recognition of a right ; and calm , decided , and altogether admirable as their conduct has been through the protracted and arduous struggle which has so happily terminated , he must yet be a bold man who can look forward to the first
exercise of these new powers without an emotion approaching even to trembling anxiety . Few have more confidence than I have in the people generally ; or in that portion of them , particularly , which has now obtained political emancipation ; or in that . other and noble portion of them , the old electors , to whom we are indebted for the parliament which denounced its own
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MONTHLY REPOSITORY .
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No , 67 . a I
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NEW SERIES , No . LXVIL
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JULY , 1832 .
On The Parliamentary Pledges To Be Required Of Can Didates At The Ensuing Elections.
ON THE PARLIAMENTARY PLEDGES TO BE REQUIRED OF CAN DIDATES AT THE ENSUING ELECTIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1816/page/1/
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