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it no direct truth . It contains scarcely a single strai g htforward sentence ; and yet it contains not a sentence that can impose on an intellect two removes from ididey . The very construction of this document is hypocritical . Sir Robert Peel felt it necessary to address some exposition of his policy to the people of England , and so he took advantage of the incidental circumstance of the vacation of his seat ., to write to his
Tamworth constituents . Yet he represents the duty of addressing them as his primary feeling , and the more important purpose as incidental . He is not such a fool as to think that cajoling the nation is subordinate to tickling the Tamworthians . He travelled from Rome to London in obedience to his Maf
jesty ' s summons ; and yet resolved to take office after an anxious review of the position of public affairs' on his arrival s which must have been taken in a few hours . ' The King , in a crisis of great difficulty , required my services . ' No doubt ; the King made the crisis for that very purpose . The ' great difficulty' was in creating the crisis . Alexander disposed of knots by the sword ; William disposes of them by the toe ; the one cut , the other kicks .
Sir Robert volunteers a declaration that he will not repeal the Reform Bill . { Thank you for nothing . This goes as far to prove him a Reformer as would a declaration that he will not repeal the monarchy , to prove him a loyal subject . The people ' s question is , who will amend and extend the Reform Bill ?
He will consider of Corporation Reform when the commissioners report . He must have considered some time to find out such a mode of evading a plain declaration . The Dissenters are graciously told that he supported the abortions of Lord Althorp and Lord John Russell , on the Church R ? &te and Marriage questions . He will make love to them b y offering again the rotten oranges which they threw down , and trampled under foot . The Dissenters are to continue excluded from the Universities ; but may take degrees , if they can get them .
He promises that future pensions shall be good ones ; and old ones not touched . No Church property shall be alienated from ' ecclesiastical purposes . ' What are they ? In the Christian dictionary , public instruction is the great ecclesiastical purpose . In the Tory lexicon , ecclesiastical purposes are parsons' pockets .
' If by an improved distribution of the revenues of the Church , ( of Ireland , ) its just influence can be extended , and the true interests of the Established Reli gion promoted , all other considerations should be made subordinate / £ . e ., being interpreted , the plunder shall be differently divided , if thereby the possession of the plunder be rendered more secure . Sir Robert has not yet had opportunity of giving his grave
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JThe Peel Manifesto / ' 67
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/67/
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