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Intell \^ fy ^ Quelling . ; Cof ^ ictt and Xjfcktiart . 1 gyr
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at l ^ erty to , ; utter , tt > £ . voice , ofPe fftion to the Parliament ana- the Tyrone . V ^ fyence t his exemplary peace and sutaordlriaUoQj bujt from ** Vhe . press , *' frcHn . ' " tKe intellig ence of * the caynfry . " T people knoia
that mo . bf are worse than useless , that theV can gain nothing by doing mischief , that thjeir iracJ ^ sjii ^ ii , and their em plovers suffer with themselves , aiid that violence would hurt their own cause . They know tfiat the very
distress or the country will produce good , that they have only to wait with patience , and that trying as the interval may be they will be in the end rewarded for their sufferings . They knoyv that Providence is bringing good out of evil , that the storm , is fraging only to purify the political atmosphere , and that when the fury
of the tempest is overpast they shall breathe the free air of peace and plenty and Old English Rights . This khow ledge saves t { ie country . Could it be _ obliterated from every poor man ' s fnind at once by the nat of a prime minister , the vessel of the common-wealth would be an instant wreck .
Knowledge cannot be unknown , "The press , so formidable to sinister politicians , will not allow the mind of a country to go back . Popular ** intelligence" so hateful in the viewer deceivers , gives an impulse to the people , which carries them on , in spite of all obstructions , to higher degrees of € f intelligence . " " Schools
for an * perpetuate themselves : once established , as they yearly are , and no art , no violence can pull them down ; public buildings may decay , societies may break up , professed teachers may disappear , but every house is a school , every rnan is an instructor arid every book both rewards
and gives education . We thus take courage from that peculiarity of the people ' s condition which strikes the orator in the Morning Chronicle with dismay . In popular knowledge there is an antidote to the poison of popular delusion . But if we' could ad ' mji with the
orator that a deceiver could successfully practise upon the people ' s * ' intellig ence" ana . abuse their minds to hi 3 own advantage , we should still deny that he was the greatest enemy to mankind , and should place on this
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" bact eminenOQ * the f tmn whoby bi * rapacity &nd plunder ^ had contributed to reduce the people toj ' a state of dfest * ^ tutiqn , of suffering and of madness * in which they were ripe for every I scheme ( to conclude as the orator concludes ) «« of rebellion , devastation and ruin . Em
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Due / I ing . —Ccfcbett and Lochhart * It happens in our opinion very fortunately that while a most disgusting account is detailing in the dailypapers of the proceedings of two mili ^ : taiy men , who are thirsting foT each others blood and expressing their
savage wishes in the most undisguised terms , in defiance of decency , religion and the law , an occurrence which ra . also made public has thrown cory-r , tempt and ridicule upon a would-be duellist . We should be justified ijr the utmost severity of animadversion upon the conduct of a law-niaker r who mav perhaps havie siven his vot ^ -
to bills for making it , loss of liUertyl and in some cases even of life / or- a poor man to shoot a harc > and wha yet upon a slight offence chaj ] eri ^ e 4 a fellow-creature to meet hio * prU vately to try who shall murder Ur ^ other . We are too much diverted , however , to pursue a serious strain ;
we really enjoy the mortification which the nonplussed cballepger must feel ; and we are inclined to believe that a few cases of this kin 4 would bring the custom of duelling into general contempt , and fix upon every man who endeavoured to bring on a duel a nickname which would be as familiar as the name which his father or god-father gave him .
The case to which we refer was as follows : — At the late Hampshire county Meeting Mr . Cobbett , tbe Writer , and Mr . Lockhart , the Member of Parliament , were opposed to each other as speakers . Cobbett exposed withou , t mercy a speech of JLockhart ' s : Lockhart was called upon to come forward in his defence , instead of which he contented himself 1
with charging his opponentwith disloyalty , sedition and wickedness ; then came the cause of offence ; Cofobett put it to the people whether LoclibarA had not been guilty of the Jbulest misr representation that ever was made by mortal man . . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1817, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2462/page/55/
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