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    the " Just / * and the same kind of badly constituted mind may sway many Englishmen . But whatever may be the case with individuals , makes nothing against the spirit of humanity which influences a whole nation , with the exception of those who are Tories in principle , and believe , either honestly or dishonestly , that the rule of irresponsible power is the best rule for the world , and who would , if they could , reduce the white population of

    Britain to the same condition as the black population of the West Indies . However this may be with the Whigs , they have found that the current of public opinion sets too strongly in favour of emancipation to be resisted , and they have accordingly made use of it as a propitiatory sacrifice , possibly in the hope thereby to stave off some more unpleasant demand , and take glory to themselves for their liberality . Now , one might have imagined , that having once resolved to emancipate the negroes , they would have resolevd to do it in the manner which might secure the maximum

    of good with the minimum of evil , and that to that end they would have selected the wisest man they could find to arrange it . But Whig policy reasoned after a different fashion . They selected Mr , Stanley , who , by his arbitrary insolence , and want of sympathy with the thoughts and feelings of his fellows , had embroiled the whole of Ireland , and brought it to the verge of a civil war , purely for the gratification of his personal malice towards Mr .

    O'Connell , who , by his superior shrewdness , had rendered him as ridiculous for his want of effective power , as he was before hateful for his aristocratic morgue . To the people of England , the disposition of Mr . Stanley was precisely that which a West India planter might feel towards his slaves . So long as sycophancy were observed towards him , so long might he condescend to be generous , and therefore , this very disposition was likely to

    make him the most unfit man to regulate an important question , upon which so many angry passions were already let loose . But the Whigs thought otherwise ; their principle would seem to be that of fighting down opposition wherever practicable , as in the case of the Spa Fields' meeting , and they imagined that the best mode of meeting the insolence of the West India planters , would be by letting loose the insolence of a Stanley upon them . The

    dogmatic insolence of this person has always been described as intolerable , to any being of refined or gentlemanly feelings ; but , notwithstanding , it might have been imagined , that after his defeat and exposure on the Irish question , and his experience of the evils of ignorance , —it might have been imagined , that upon

    entering upon a new office , he would at least have taken some pains to become acquainted with the details , history , and principles of the subject he had taken in hand . Lord Howick , while in office , had acknowledged the well-known fact , that Mr . Stephen , the chief clerk , knew more of the subject , and was at the same time an abler man , and better fitted to manage it , than any other . In

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 457, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/17/