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ing mote particularly , that the Whigs should not have been lumped with the Tories , if for no other reason than that they are Whigs , and therefore less Tory than Tories , and of
a dominion less peremptory against the addressers . Individuals among them deserve a far greater discrepancy of treatment , and possess natures , we firmly believe , that wish the very utmost of all that is good
and happy for all men ; though their breeding and conventional habits may render them slower than is desirable , in their notions of the way in which it is to be brought about . At all events , the better the opinion which the movers on these
occasions can entertain of all classes of their fellow-creatures , compatible with an energetic pursuit of their rights ( and we hold the charitablest opinion to be most and best
compatible ) , the more they will find that they preclude objection and counteraction , and the better they prove that sense of universal right and justice in their own minds , which no
provocation can do away . For an ill opinion of human nature is a Tory feeling ; that is to say , one founded in a sense that men are worthy to be trampled on ; and if Tories themselves had not corners of
better misgivings in their own minds , the chances would be , that no man had them ; and there would be some greater show of reason in the Tory pretence , that all men would ill use all other men if they had
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the power , and that therefore there is no such thing as a real Tory difference between any classes . The fact is , there kre Tories in all classes , as there ar £
Whigs and Radicals in all ; men disposed by certain predominant qualities to greater or less sympathies with their fellow-creatures ; and in proportion as any class , like any man , is free from violent
feelings and the use of violent terms , he is fit for the use and administration of liberty . Let us take care , then , that the sense of wrong does not , however pardonably in the
comparison , bring out the lurking spirit of wrong in ourselves , and show us , so far , less worthy of sympathy than we might appear . We have little doubt that the first Address from the
Working Classes , which shall succeed in making its way to the throne , will have taken thought and be free from this error . Meantime we assist in putting upon record this state
paper of that great and growing power — the uneducated classes of the United Kingdom ; who if they are not free from mistake , any more than those who have been educated , have
the affecting advantage over them of knowing their ottn intellectual ivants . Very affecting also is the request which they make to the young mother of their country , tnat she would be pleased to supply them . We shall follow it with some
remarks connected with the other regret we have expressed , and a sample of such
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The Queen and the Working Classes , 309
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 303, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/7/
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