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It is reported that one of the most influential members of the present Administration observed , when the result of the late elections was becoming manifest , ' We shall be too strong !* This
remarkable apprehension has been fatally verified . The moral ascendency which they had obtained over the people is dissipated by the numerical superiority which they possess in the House . Their majority is too great for their reputation . Their influence over the intelligence and principle of the country has received self-inflicted wounds from which it can never recover . We write
this far more in sorrow than in anger . We love to be confiding , and hate to be distrustful ; next to the gratification of contemplating the full realization by the people of the blessings which should have followed from reform , would have been that of receiving them from the hands of the authors of that reform . This was
surely no unreasonable expectation . With bitterness of soul \ v& relinquish it as a futile one . Those blessings must and Will still be realized ; but apparently only by a long popular struggle . Of stern temper must be the future historian of that struggle , if he record not with deep commiseration what the Whig Administration might have been ,, and what it was .
Let none of onr readers think our judgment premature . Many popular and useful measures may , and no doubt will , be introduced by the present Government . There will be much partial reformation in various departments . Unhappily for its members , the imperfections and limits of those reforms must now be ascribed
not to their inability , but to their indisposition to proceed further . Their fidelity to the cause of the people id already brought to actual and decisive experiment . They may hereafter purchase gratitude ; they can never again earn confidence .
During the elections there were various symptoms of hostility , on the part of the Ministry , against the people . Their candidates were put in opposition to known and tried reformers , whose public conduct had evinced theii fitness ( their superior fitness , at least , over the often nameless creatures of party and influence set up against them ) for the honourable trust « of legislation . A suspicious but successful outcry was raised against pledges , though
there were but few and insignificant exceptions to the fact that the proposed pledges related to those brdad and elementary principles on which every public man , with a spark of honesty , has made up his mind to take one side or the other . But these and other indications , of a similar description , might easily have been obliterated , or would soon have been forgotten , had a different spirit been shown by Ministers when parliament assembled . What was their first set ? The re-appointment of a Tory
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ON THE CONDUCT OF MINISTERS SINCE THE MEETING OF pAfcLlAMflNT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/27/
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