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We object altogether to these ' attempts to be religious and moral at the expense of the working people . Lgt us first mead our own ways . Let 113 enable ourselves to stand erect Without shame in the presence of the immorality which we complain < rf , by washing our hands of all participation in producing it . Let
us cease to make vice by wholesale , and we may leave off this silly skirmishing with it in detail . Make it the labourer ' s interest to be frugal and temperate ,, and you will not need to make his cottage his prison , in order to keep him from wasting his wages and getting drunk . Accustom him to look to himself and not to you for his means of subsistence , and he will not go out at night , either from his cottage or from the beer-house , to fire your
stacks because you do not give him enough . But continue to sow tares and you need not expect to reap wheat . Go on teaching the labourer that his wages are to be regulated by his wants , not by the market value of his labour , and he will consider you a robber and an oppressor if your wants are better cared for than his . Let him know that if he spends all you will give him more ,
if he saves anything you will give him nothing , and he must be a fool , on any worldly calculation , if he denies himself any indulgence within his reach . We do not say , reform all your dealings with the poor ; we are not such visionaries as to expect it : we say , reform the Poor Laws alone ; try the effect of that for two or three years , and , in heaven ' name , a truce with the beer-house purism for that period .
25 th April . Repeal of the Union . —The first person who drove a coach with six horses , was thought a wonderful man ; and so was the first person who spoke for six hours . But after him of the coach-and-six , came he of the coach-and-eight ; and coaches
and six became very ordinary phenomena . So true is it , that man has never yet done that which man may not hope to surpass ! No one has yet tried the daring experiment of an eight hours ' speech , and it is still a problem whether mortal ears can stay and listen for so long . But Lord Brougham ' s achievement fias been
now proved to be nothing extraordinary . He has met with his equals in Mr . O'Connell and Mr . Spring Rice , and no unworthy rival even in Mr . Emerson Tennent . The two former gentlemen spoke each an entire night , the latter two-thirds of one . We
know not if all the rest of the debate is to be upon this scale , or if the remaining 103 Irish members intend to bestow an equall y large share of their wisdom and eloquence upon the House . If so , we shall not have to trouble our readers with any more Notes for several months to come ! In the mean time , we will venture
on a few words , which we are certain will not be said b y any one who will vote either for Mr . O'Connell ' s motion , or for Mr . Spring Rice ' s amendment ; and which , although they can be said ill less than six hours , are , we think , more to the point than any part of what it took * aoh of the above ggnttaoen all night to say .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/59/
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