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neighbours to the poll . In counties , district sub-committees might report what conveyances would be wanted . Local election funds should be everywhere subscribed . Coalition wherever there are two liberal candidates . And everywhere , forthwith , ' a Watch Committee to keep a sharp look-out after every act
and process of bribery , treating , and coercion ; and to record every device and act of the Tories which may hereafter void corrupt returns , or illustrate the virtue of the Ballot . ' Such are some of the modes in which organization may grapple with corruption . The people have not learned how to make use of the strength which they possess ; nor will they be taught yet , except very partially ; but the time is coining .
Dr . Lushington and the King . —At a meeting of his constituents of the Tower Hamlets , Dec . 11 , Dr . Lushington spoke as follows : * You have , in the first place , against you , the King . It is utter folly —it is false delicacy—it is altogether absurd to say , that by discussing these matters we are infringing on the prerogatives of the Crown . The
people have also their prerogatives ; and be it recollected that the King was made for the people . If he chooses to appoint Ministers whom the people cannot trust , the people can make him change them again . If he pursues such a course as to lead the country into danger , the people must stop him in his career . What is now the state of our country ?
For ten years we had a monarch who Avas insane . For ten years more we had , for his successor , a cold-blooded and heartless voluptuary . A change came , and we have now one , who , after exciting the hopes and expectations of ihe people , is prepared to disappoint them . But are the hopes of the people to be now blasted ? I would warn the friends of monarchv , that if such course is to be pursued , monarchy itself is in
danger . Now this is honest , and therefore it deserves praise ; for of the thousands who know and feel its truth , how few there are who have spoken it out so plainly . Even in the speeches of courage ^ pus Reformers , we generally find that whenever the King is
introduced , cant follows , as if there were a natural and necessary connexion between royalty and insincerity . We do not mean to affirm that there is not : but we demur to such a mode of keeping up the connexion . We object to the worse than mystification which has been generally practised on this matter . Can there ever have been a doubt since May , 1882 , of the King ' s Tory
propensities ? Did he not first accept the resignation of the Reform Ministry , and after they were forced back , Bill and all , carry that Bill by an extraordinary act of influence , rather than create a sufficient number of popular peers to enable a Reform Government to go on ? What was to be expected after this , but what has actually happened , that the Whigs should be disgraced in every possible way , and then dismissed . Was not the speech to the Bishops a plain warning ? The K ing was never
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/65/
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