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Teie country is again under the dictatorship of the Duke of Wellington , and ,, if it submit to remain so , well deserves this lowest degradation which can befall a people whose slumbers have ever been visited by the dream of political liberty .
But the country will not submit . From the east to the west , from the north to the south , from its metropolitan centre to its remote circumference , is the voice of remonstrance already heard , calm but decisive ; and both calm and decisive , because it is uttered in the consciousness of peaceful power which cannot be baffled nor loner resisted .
How different are men ' s feelings now from what they were when last threatened with the Duke of Wellington ' s resumption of power in May , 1832 . The apprehension , then , seemed to threaten the disorganization of the social frame ; every day , every hour , appeared fraught with fearful events ; scenes of bloody conflict arose on the imagination ; the excitement was at a pitch , which foreboded ( unless it had been immediately allayed ) confusion , impending convulsion , and the horrors of civil warfare .
On the present occasion , the actual investiture of the duke with the entire authority of government , has only produced , first , universal astonishment ; then clear consideration and decision ; and finally , the united and quiet action ,, which indicates that the nation forms and expresses its will , knowing that < it is sufficiknt . '
There is no reorganizing unions , or running for gold , or talk of barricades . Instead , there is only a passing of resolutions , a voting of addresses , and the formation of Electoral Committees . This last is , indeed , the business part of the matter , and we trust it will be set about , all over the country , in a business * -like way . Independently of the great change , it is not gf all amiss , for the cause of Reform , that there should be a frc'h election of the
House of Commons . Meanwhile , men draw their breath freely , and feel their minds at liberty to speculate on the nature , causes , and consequences of this unlooked for event . It is an awful experiment which the Tories have made , and one which never can , nor ought to be forgotten by the people of this country .
Whatever be the personal character , or the professional merits of the Duke of Wellington , the sentence of public opinion had gone forth , and that most , wisely and justly , against his ever again Wing intrusted with the reins of Government . He is the personification of Anti-Reform ; the great enemy with whom the people had to struggle for obtaining that Bill ,
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THE WELLINGTON DICTATORSHIP .
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No . 96 . 3 N
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 821, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/3/
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