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pnly wait our time to shake off all allegiance from a country , which , through the lust of power , agree to oppress one portion , for the very same cause that gave them the liberty they now enjoy . But I cannot think this will be the case . ' England has not been altogether supine on this fearful subject , though little has been done compared with what ought to have
been done . But the people are , as yet , bewildered by what seems to them the strange turn that public affairs have taken . They know not what to think or believe . They see the men ,, between whom they split their votes as brother reformers , voting in almost constant opposition to each other , and waxing fierce in the wordy warfare . They hear those under whose guidance , last year , they advanced almost to the verge of rebellion for the reinstatement of
Ministers , denounced by those Ministers , or attacked by their gladiators , as all but traitors . They are in such sore perplexity as the blind old patriarch , when he heard the voice of Jacob , but felt the rough hand of Esau . All their political feelings , notions , and associations , are dislocated . But a little time will recover them . The public spirit of England can never again be crushed as it has been crushed , or deluded as it has been deluded . Chaos
is come again , but the elements will subside to their proper level . Ere long ., there will be only the two great parties ; those who would govern for their own advantage , and those who would have the people govern themselves for the common good . Of the latter party is our correspondent , Junius Redivivus , from one of whose communications sent to us early in last month , we take the following remarks .
* The Reformed House of Commons , by the alacrity of their votes on the subject of the Bill for stripping Ireland , even of the semblance of freedom , have given ample evidence that the majority of their number are merely the willing tools of the Whig Ministry . The pretensions of attachment to freedom , with which they greeted their constituents at the period of the elections , are shown to be false and hollow , and it is to be hoped that they will henceforth be marked men , and that
whatever constituency shall henceforth return them , will be held to be as infamous as themselves . I write while the Bill is in its first stage , and the amendment of Mr . Tennyson negatived , which fact I take to he indicative of the ultimate result . At this period the minds of the English people scarce seem sufficiently on the alert , they seem to regard the proceeding with rather more of apathy than is exactly wholesome . It may be a deceptive appearance , and I would fain hope so , for although the Bill is apparently directed only against a few
disorderly Irishmen , it is in reality an engine of the most abhorrent oppression , by which eight millions of people are placed \ inder the arbitrary rule of military officers , a race of men whose success in life depends entirely upon their sycophancy to absolute power , without appeal , each one to his superior , from the lowest up to the highest . What a per-Bon obnoxious to them or to their superiors has to expect , when tried by them , has been clearly shown forth in their conduct to Somerville and B re re ton . Humanity shown to the people , is in their estimation
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248 On the Conduct of Miiiisters since the Meeting of Parliament .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/32/
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