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    u only hdpe , " pursues the same writer , " the only ch&nc £ , which the people have left to them , is in an election , under circumstances of such strong excitement as to insure the return of a House of Commons that will accomplish some or other of those changes , either the Ballot , a large extension of the Suffrage , or short Parliaments . " It becomes us , therefore ,

    neither to procrastinate nor fear the advent of the last daring ascent of the Tories into office , seeing that such an event , if it occur , will expedite that irretrievable downfall of their faction , which , by some means or other , must certainly arrive . The people do not know their own strength , or all this unnecessary alarm and disunion of opinion could not exist . It is for children to cry , " The Tories are coming ! " it is for men to say , " Let them come ! " Samson knew how to deal with

    the Philistines , and so ought the people of England . What the Whigs mean by a Reformed House of Lords , is merely that the House of Lords should be re-formed of a Whig majority . Then , with a Whig House of Commons playing on the same circular saw as the Tories of Old , the country will have to 4 i down with its dust , " and fill the treasury pit for the benefit of the legislative sawyers . All real

    reform will be at an end : all political progress stopped , until a convulsion occur . The Whigs must not , therefore , be allowed to have it all their own way in this manner . Were there no other reason ( there are many reasons ) for proposing the Ballot as a more important measure than that of the immediate u reform " of the Lords , we would advocate the former to keep the Whigs upon their mettle — the little they possess — and oOtivince them that all reformers will not rest satisfied with

    their sedative mediocrities . The People passed the Reform Bill—not the Whigs ; and the People can pass the Ballot if they will . The legislation of the Lords is of course as bad as may be expected of a body constituted and diseased as is that House of Proud Flesh , by birth and circumstances . Their

    principle is that of " the greatest mischief to the greatest number , " for the benefit of a few . What the " Lords" do , we must take ( at present ) from whence it comes ; but the House of Commons , elected by the people as their i Representatives / what is to be said of the choice ? Simply this : it is not that

    the people are in intellect and principle a mere drove of geese and foxes , who elect according to their natural sympathies ; it is that the Members are elected by only a fraction of the people . The total population of the United Kingdom , according to the statistical census , is 24 , 029 , 702 ; * the number of males of

    • It is more than this according to M'Culloch's * Statistical Account of England / The population of Great Britain and Ireland ) in May 1830 , he estimates at about 201471 , 000 .

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    Our Representatives *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/10/