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actions in behalf of Reform as no other nobleman ever yet performed or abided by . Lord Durham is the man , who , after exerting himself in the cause from his entrance into
life , prepared the Reform Bill in its first and best state , and would have gone farther than anybody in the Upper House to secure us its right working . He is the man who advocates
Household Suffrage , Triennial Parliaments , and the Ballot . He is the man who opposed " the infamous Six Acts . " He is the man who opposed new grants of money to the Royal Dukes . He is the man who denounced
the transfer of Norway to Sweden , and of Genoa to the King of Sardinia;—who would not allow to his Whig friends and kindred the right of inflicting the Irish Coercion Bill ; and who , in the course of these and all his other exertions in the
cause of principle and freedom has suffered bitter calamities of domestic losses and personal ill-health;—things , which render some men careless of the good of others , and some
exasperated with human nature and Providence itself ; but which , falling on right brains and hearts , make them see how desirable good is to everybody , and what an exaltation of all
other titles is that of a benefactor to his species . It is for this we respect and have faith in Lord Durham , in spite of whatever infirmities his nature may be mixed up with These are the reflections , these are the reminiscences , which
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re-assured us ; and which have made us read the document over again , with feelings , guch as we believe the Noble Reformer to wish us to feel .
Those , therefore , we still have , and gratefully acknowledge . But one more reflection arose , not hostile to them , but jealous of mingling them with a weakness which the
Noble Lord himself might disrespect and be injured by . He says he will do his duty ; but he says , as he has said always , that we also must do ours : and
our duty on the present occasion we take to be this , —to shew Lord Durham , that if we think him too worthy to trifle with us , we also are too worthy to be trifled with ; and that we
must not induce him to suppose our worthiness gone out of us , for default of manifesting a strenuous expectation of our rights . The energetic captain , lest his very energies corrupt into an ambition fatal to both
parties , must be enabled to see that he leads energetic soldiers ; men who are proud to fight under him ; but too proud to fi ght for him , or for any one ; or for anything less than mankind .
Conceding then to our Noble Friend ( we speak in the name of all the Reformers who agree with us , and not in the ordinary sense of that appellation , for we
have not the honour of knowing his Lordship , nor do we bring forward idle personal pretensions of any sort on this occasion)—conceding then to the Noble Friend of Reform , that his
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? 4 Lord Durham and the Reformers .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/2/
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