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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian's Survey of the Political World.
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Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christian's Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian ' s Survey of the Political World .
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from being carried away by idle surmises , tlie tricks of parties , or the colourings of eloquence-Our constitution has wisely determined the settlement of th © throne , and thus prevented those
evils which , might arise on a disputed isucctssion . But it is a defect in our constitution , that in . regulating the succession , proper steps were not taken to obviate the inconveniences which must result from the state in which the country has been placed by a disorder in the rOval intellects . There might be some difficulty and some delicacy in making suitable arrangements ; but surely these would have been fixed with greater prudence an < l discretion , wherir a future possible event was anticipated , than by leaving them to
the moment when the evil was actually incurred , and that authority was impeded which the constitution requires to give solidity to any act of the legislature .
It is to be recollected then that no provision has been made by the constitution fof the calamity under which the nation now labours ; and that all the steps taken on the subject must be considered as matters of expediency . Here was an open field then for difference of opinion , and the difficulty of arriving at ; a fair conclusion must be increased by the contending interests of those by whom it miist be determined . According to our constitution every act of the legislature re-
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The politics of this world are fickle and uncertain . They are the result of the feeble councils of men , actuated by the circumstances of the moment , and incapable of being guided by fixed
and certain principles . The events of the last twenty years must so completely have established this truth in every mind , whether it is guided by the light of our holy religion , or wandering in the paths of worldly imagination , that it would be needless to dwell a moment on so beaten a topic . Yet evident as this truth is , it is , of use to Christian minds to bring it frequently to their recollection , that they may tiot be surprised at passing events , but confident in the divine govern , meat ^ may see that whatever
fluctuating politicians determine , the whole will end in results which entered not into their conception , and which they had neither the wish nor the wisdom to promote .
In many of the questions , however , that agitate the courts of of princes , or the meetings of councils , all are interested ; and in this country the melancholy state of the sovereign cannot be unknown in the remotest cottage , and the means of supplying the defect of the royal authority will be canvassed in many communities . In a question of this kind , it is useful to be guided by some fixed principle , to know on what it hinges and to preserve thfe mind
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/51/
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