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Newcastle to be-woiiA ^ <^ <«<) i { M ;^ ^ Qfa 94 iitli - >! thqy- ] bear > internal et ^ deitee : ; : . - * - .., r , Your invitation , therefore , to me , and your reception of me this day , ate peculiarly gratifying to the . ( Hear . ) If I were indeed the person tMt I am des 6 ribed to be , by hired libellers and calumniators , ( great
cheering , ) would you have rallied round me as you have done to-day ? ( Cries of " No , no ! " and cheers . ) No , gentlemen , sure I am that no political considerations upon earth would ever have induced you to ; flock round me , if I had been such as I have been described by those persons . ( Cheers . ) If , gentlemen , I had been such as I have been represented by some , an oppressor of the poor , instead of honouring , you would
have disowned me . Happily , I can say , with truth and justice , that among the many thousands who depend for their daily sustenance upon me , there is not one that would raise his voice against me , knowing as they all do full well , that their happiness , their comfoit , and their welfare , are the dearest objects of my heart . ( Cheers . ) Again , gentlemen , if I had been the proud Aristocrat that it has been the pleasure of some to call me , should I have had , both in public and private , the support and friendship of all classes , from the highest to the lowest ? ( Cheers . )
The real secret , gentlemen , is , that I have too much pride to compTOmise with the base and the unworthy . ( Great cheering . ) I have ever unshrinkingly exposed their misdeeds and their false pretensions . Therefore is it that I have incurred their unrelenting enmity . ( Cheers . ) I have , however , the consolation of knowing , that their hatred and enmity are the best and surest passports to the approbation of all good rnen » Besides , I know that there is as much sound sense , as much true honour , and as much real independence to be found under the coarse working-jacket of a mechanic as beneath the ermined robe of the
peer . * Wow , supposing for a moment that these words of Lord Durham were untrue ; supposing him to be of a tyrannous , proud , and haughty nature , individually ; still it would not follow that he
would be altogether an inefficient leader for the Movement or Progression party . Honesty of purpose is one main requisite ; without which , popularity and intellect would be alike unavailing in him who might bear the title of the people ' s advocate . If Lord Durham were to become personally unpopular , his would be the loss .
The people can exist in comfort , without loving their ruler ; the ruler who is not loved by the people can have but a sorry life of it . Castlereagh cut his own throat , and the fourth Guelph lived a life of unsatisfied privacy . The groans and yells which followed the coffin of Castlereagh , must have blanched many a cheek and
appalled many a heart amongst the retainers of misrule he left bejuind him . Only the high-couraged and benevolent heart can bea £ up under the undeserved dislike of a people ; what , then , mus , t itj require to endure the curses which conscience whispers haveljee ^ dq&erved ?
Th&i objwtorjs to Lord , Durham appear to have accused him of pric ^ e qf justly , wfyile they h ^ ve overlooke d a serious defe ct of whiich ample evidence may be traced through the whole of his political
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/40/
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