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could absolve hitti frbm this priotf a&d ^ araftiouni obligation . A trustee cannot , morally * bihd himself fo fiolUte hi * trust . The first , great , and all-absorbifig tfeSpiOiat ^ lbilfty of a Member of f ^ rliametlt is to the people . That ttiUst ba & Mse riotio ti of personal honour which £ * Mt& th ^ p ^ fbi ^ matt ^' of A p ^ oniise to cmtiftiit ct public tvrbng . Vet such is the mbralif y of the day . A gentleman must keep his wai * d td a gentleman . He need not
keep it to a rabble of electors , —4 ior to a friendless fefnaift > ^—all is rair in love and at elections- , r At lovers' perjuries Jove laughs / and at the professions of the hustings kristoerjacy sneers . Many a man may defy th& imputation of a prdvett lie whose whole public life is the foulest of falsehoods . The first of all political proimses > the only one which binds under all circumstances whatever , is to serve our country to the best of our judgment and ability .
In the present state of the suffrage , the electors are trustees as well as the elected . The ballot would * it is said * enable them to bfeak faith with the candidate * Open voting continually compels them to break faith with their country . The last lie is the worst . A false promise does much mischief ; a false vote does infinitely irtdre . If the fulfilment of our duty to our country was not ptorrtisGd tot 'us by out godfethers and godmothers in baptism ^ it frets promised for us by God and nature in the gift of our moral
being . Cross Voting . —In conformity , we believe , with the custom on such occasions , the candidates for the speakership of the House of Commons Voted each foi * his opponent . The custom would have been * more honoured in the breach than in the observance . ' It is courtesy run mad : or rather , courtesy turned traitor . We should have been well pleased had Mr . Abeirapomby done the
lincourteous on the occasion , and either voted for himself or left the house . Not that any difference would have been made in the result , as of course the opponents understood each other , and taeutir&lized ttoeir own votes by compact , express or implied . But there would have been an important difference of moiul effect . The vote of a legislator , on a vital question , ought not to be m-ad *^ even in meite appearance , an affair of personal eompliment . Mr *
Abefcrombys vote should have been the expression of Mr . Afaer ^ fcromby ' s opinion , and bo should that of SirC . M . Sutton have $ fc £ ? fes $ ad his opinion % although the frefcnark ^ app lies more strongly to Afe ' e ^ tomby , as a Reformed , who had conseiiteA to identify himself ^ ith a public principle by coming forward in this important
Contest . His standing , and his vote , ar 6 in direct opposition * The < # te giv ^* the lie to th ^ ot her . We impu te too blame to hitfr Wt whrttt Would prpfeabiy hav ^ e b ^ en incurred by evteiy Wh&t person M ^ ho teould hav ^ befen selected Fof the same j > ui » poig ^; fettt the \ 30 U * tesy itself t $ so misplacteti that W ^ e C ^ nno ^ omit noti ^ iag it fot Reprobation , ^ attd expressing out * W [* e that the iswigaage ^ of &ctiGm » >
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203 Notes on the Nvwspapeff *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/62/
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