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consideration' to the reform of the Church of England . He is sadly behind , and should have left Rome a day sooner . From some millions of people ., the Church has had a ' grave consideration / and has commenced digging it herself . It is asked , with great seeming simplicity , whether it should be assumed that the effect of the Reform Act was * so to fetter the
prerogative of the Crown , that the King has no free choice among (his subjects ; he must select his Ministers from one section , and one section only , of public men V Premising that one section ** is here a felicitous phrase for the whole people , with the exception of the Tories , we answer that , though , legally , the Reform Act does not limit the sovereign to the choice of Reform Ministers ,
yet that morally it does ; that having given his assent to that Act in accordance with the nation ' s will , he could not be expected to assign the powers of Government to its enemies ; and that if Sir Robert Peel and the Tories believing , as they have always declared , that Act to have been destructive of the Constitution , take office to govern in its spirit , they are also , in
their own consciences , traitors to the nation ; and if they do not so intend to govern , while yet they conceal and disavow their purpose , then are they traitors in the people ' s estimation , and hypocrites by their own showing . The prerogative , like every privilege , is limited by the laws of honour and consistency . The criminal code , like the Reform Act , confines the Kinor ' s choice to
one section of public men ; that section which has not been convicted of felony . The Duke ' s man has done his best ; but it will not do . The fiercer folks of the party have shouted the Waterloo war-cry ,
* Up , boys , and at them , * but the National Guard of England will more easily sustain the onset than did the old Imperials . Electoral conflicts are not to be decided by the sword of a Wellington . And if , for a moment , victory should seem to incline towards it ,
* Humanity will rise , and thunder Nay . The Cheltenham Free Press . —This paper is a spirited attempt to establish a vehicle for the diffusion of sound political knowledge and principle . It deserves circulation and support far beyond the limits of Gloucestershire . The editor is evidentl y a man of superior education , intelligence , fervour , and energy . Such are wanted to manage the much-abused machinery of
public instruction . The articles on the Ballot are admirable ; and so is the acuteness with which the editor exposes the danger to the people of being misled by the cry of Union at the approaching elections , lie thinks , as we do , that all Reformers should unite ; but that we should make sure that we are uniting with Reformers- There will be gross juggling and deception on this point * The Reformers are those who will reform further .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 68, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/68/
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