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lor them . They " were restored to power , not * by the difficulty ' of forming another administration , but by the far more tremendous difficulty which any Tory administration would have had in governing the country ; by the unquestionable symptoms of an approaching national convulsion . Their pledges were * redeemed for them by the people . And they must not wonder that it did . hot please many who felt and knew this ,, that the essential aid which had been rendered them should be repudiated , slighted , arid
scorned , and . those political associations made the object of deprecation / sarcasm , arid threat , without which it is scarcely possible , either that a Reform Act or a Whig ministry should how have been in existence . What though Lord Althorparid Lord John Russell had been teazed by the Tories for their correspondence with Mr . Attwood , was it for Earl Grey to imitate the insolence of the Ddke of Wellington , and refuse to recognize a
Political Union , —was it for him so to convey by implication a censure on the loyalty of the Duke of Sussex ? Fifty years ago Charles Grey and John Towell Rutt were fellow-labourers in the cause of Reform , as members of the Society of the Friends of the People . * They are amongst the very few surviving originators of political association for procuring Parliamentary Reform . Last May they Were fellow-labourers too , in that same cause . — -the one in a
dismissed and prostrate ministry ; the other amongst the people , by whose exertions , and by the apprehension of whose further pro ^ ceedings , that ministry was raised and reinstated . When the victory was accomplished , Mr . Rutt was the chairman of the first public meeting held , we believe , in this country , to congratulate Earl Grey on his restoration to office ; and did it become Earl Grey to refuse to receive John Towell Rutt on such an occasion , simply because his presidency was over a meeting convened by a Political Union ? Will all the allowance that can be made for the
hauteur of his personal character , for the prejudiced of his order > ' or for the proverbial want of tact of his party , excuse this behaviour to one who belongs to a higher nobility than his , and a inbre enduring aristocracy ? We mention this instance because it shows the spirit of many others . It is only a specimen Of Whig gratitude towards reforming zeal ; If a Premier will kick the faces of those who are bearing him back to office on their shoulders , he should not exclaim of their want on gratitude . The
Political Unions have , in their present form , at least , dotie their work ; and a good Work too . They were no broken reed when the pressure was heavy on them . From first to last there were Comparatively few points on which they did not yield an efficient popular support to the administration . And had that gratitude fcnd confidence been secured , which might and should have been secured , their useful continuance or peaceful dissolution would have been of easy accomplishment , „ - The conduct of government iri relation to the taxes oil know *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 845, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/53/
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