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    twenty years of age and upwards , is 5 , 812 , 276 : the entire number of electors , about 800 , 000 . Thus , less than one seventh part of the adult male population is represented ; and evefi of these the greater portion act directly or indirectly under intimidation Is it any wonder that the Many should be continually excited and disgusted , and the Ministry in a series of disgraceful

    dilemmas and scrapes , now that this fact has become generally known ? We must have a House of Real Representatives ; nothing else can save us from the Lords . Until we have the Ballot and a great extension of the Suffrage , these Houses will ever have an hereditary disease and " a plague upon them both !" There can be " no health in them / ' nor in the moral and political state of the people .

    When we behold the slow progression made in substantiating those organic changes which are known to be the only chance of permanent welfare to the community ; \ vhen session after session we feel the wheels that are passing over our hearts , and striving to crush them , become clogged in the passage , and neither liberate or destroy the life within ; while we see the helmsmen dismayed , and fixed with pallid inaction between

    their private desires and public station , their duties and their fears , the claims of their fellow-men , and the claims of their own perplexed selfishness ; while we see the want of united strength among the leaders of the people , with the frequent and shameful apathy of the people when great occasions call ; and

    while we descry the insidious manoeuvres and lurking faces of the sword-and-psalter faction , peering beneath the underwood , and from behind dark corners and dangerous passes , ready either to slink in among us with glosses and disguises of all kinds , or to crowd down upon us with all the ignorance of bruteforce , if circumstances should ever favour their sanguinary and remorseless covetousness , —deaf , blind , and destructive , when

    their victims , claiming justice , are in their power ; but eyed like the cat by night and by day , and keen of hearing as the hare , when the aroused millions are prepared to trample on their " savage-state , " and fill their coronets with dust ; is it not enough to make the soul sick , when seeing these things so plainly as we all do , that still our course of regeneration should be thus painfully retarded , and the happiness of a great nation

    still held suspended in the unwholesome atmosphere that rises from two houses of bad fame , worse conduct , and general treason against humanity ? But is this a reason why we should pause or relax in our efforts ? Is this a good ground wherein to bury our hopes ? Is it not rather a ground wherein to sow our thoughts , that the buried seeds of good may spring up and flourish whenever the due season arrives ? We should constantly persevere in the old and sacred cause of nature . Were

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    Our Representatives , 11

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/11/