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Although" the measure of Lord Sidrnouth excited transient and just apprehension , he was glad that it had been introduced , Great advantages had resulted
from it . The present generation of professing dissenters had almost forgotten the principles of dissent ; they scarcely recollected those rights for which their forefathers were ejected from their
preferments—were consigned to dungeons—ascended scaffolds , and were burnt at the stake . Their minds had been enervated by the sun-shine of toleration . Adversity had slain her thousands , but * prosperity more fell , more fataL , had ten thousands slain J *
• JJiit although the tempest quickly passed away , it had arrived , and inen were compelled to look about them for the cloak of principle to wrap it round them ; the tempest had arrived , and had condensed
the evaporating particles of the dissenting body into a mass which he trusted would never be again broken into pieces . By the late events , therefore , investigation and union had been produced , aiid
a precedent had been established ^ never to be forgotten 1 —a precedent which demonstrated the great consequences which might be produced by united and systematic exertions * and that public opi .
aion , constitutionally' expressed , must invariably prevail . His satisfaction at the late success tvas increased , because he was there | jy encouraged to expect future advantage ; , „
Throughout the empire a disposition hostile to penal laws oa ^ GO Unt of re"gion , and favourable \ o uubbund-* & religious liberty , jfiad been displayed . In these sentiments prin-
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ces and peasants had concurred The iriost anxious disposition to assist the resistance of the Committee had been manifested . They % ad been regarded by unanimous
encouragement—approbation was invariably the attendant or precursor of their steps , and , from the sentiments generally indicated , he Confidently concluded that persecution for religious opinions must
speedily expire . He perceived the dawn of a bright and unsettirig day : but he Wo \ iid display not puerile exultation but manly joy ; he would not pursue with too much eagerness a defeated foe , lest he
should rouse him to desperate deeds : he wasp ' erW&ded that by judicious and persevering efforts the repeal of all penal laws would be obtained , and that they would nbt
long remain memorials of . the presitfnptioji arid ignorance of their ancestors * He did hope that during the Ensuing year sortfe progress would be made towards the attainment of
th at end : he should be happy at their nfext anniversary , to congratulate them on the furthei triumphs of religious liberty ; at ^ d his satisfaction would be complete , when be should announce that religious liberty had no enemy to overcome . The . Chairman next stated
that the ) meeting likd already ex * pressed their approbation of a pro * jected Academical Institution . To that institution he for one should give his Support , among
other realsons , becauseit would not interfere with any other existing seminary . There was an academy that was not now am experiment , which had been tried aricTfbtmd
increasingly useful , Some of the principal supportefs . and conducttors of which he ; was happy to set
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/49/
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