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Perceiving , therefore , that we were ill-governed , and perceiving that so long as the aristocratic principle continued predominant in our government we could not expect to be otherwise , these persons became radicals , and the motto of their radicalism was , enmity to the Aristocratical principle .
. The ensuing extract from the same review will shew that Mr Fonblanque advocated the Caus 6 of thorough Reform at k period when it required far tnote courage than at present ; and Certainly found , by comparison , a very limited sympathy . % . .... "Mr Fonblanque ' i career as a public writer is coeval with the birth of this party . He was the first journalist who unfurled their banner ; he has borne it bravely . and steadily through all fortunes , during ten years of perpetual combat , and few men will have contributed more to its final triumph . "Mr Fonblanque began his labours in the cause of radicalism in unpropitious times . The days of active persecution , indeed , were past ; but Reform principles were discountenanced by all persons in authority , as much as their extreme contempt for those principles would suffer them to consider necessary . There was no apparent Reform party among people of property or education , and the demand for reform was believed
to have been effectually put down . In this state of affairs , Mr Fon * blanque took up the cause ; and was distinguished from almost all others who were at that time serving it by this honourable characteristic , —that bo never in any single instance equivocated or temporised for the sake of an immediate purpose , nor ever concealed one particle of his ultimate designs . From the beginning , he scouted the notion that the posaesskm of Urge property qualified men for power , or rendered it unnecessary to subject thetn to responsibility for the exercise of it . From the beginning , he avowed that the House of Lords , as it now exists , could never co-exist
wira & reformed House of Commons . From the beginning , he treated the { political Church of England as a mere pretence for the misappropriation of a large portion of national wealth to sordid purposes . From the beginning , he invariably represented the Ballot as a sine qua nan of good Government , land universal suffrage as necessary to its perfection , though demanding , as a preliminary requisite , a degree of education and intelligence which was not yet , and would not soon be , reached . In this
straightforward and open course of proceeding , we know not if Mr Ponblanque had at the time of his commencement any associates , except the early writers in the Westminster Review , among whom also he himself was numbered . And » now , when doctrines which Were at that time so universally obnoxious have gone far to * W ^ fds becoming , and every discerning toerslon sees that they tt * ust ultimately become , the general opinions of the community , —thoae who nfst descended into the arena and did battle for those principles , and b y fro doing raised them from being objects of the unaffected contempt of ail
peWofrs of station or influence , to their present importance and honour , $ r ^ entitled to tutn round upon those who are applauding spectator * of result * they never hazarded anything to forward , and ask , by what other course , profitable as it might have been to themselves , thfey cwld so # 11 tave tertctl tfifcir country mA their tfpiaiodn ? mi whether , IT
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302 England Voter Seven Adthtnitirutions .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/47/
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