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OL i lift thy dim and aching sight . . ¦ From earth to . - heaven , ami le % it test Amidst those far-off worlds of light , The dwelling-places of the blest .
Gaze on , for holy thoughts aie there , And high resolves , and strength , and power ; The Spirit of the breathing air Will bless thee in that hallowed hour ! C . P .
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476 Corporation' Reform .
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Onward rolls the movement , resistless in its progress , sometimes faster , sometimes slower , but still it rolls onward , gaining fresh impetus from every would-be impediment . The great Reform Bill for the purification of the national council has become a matter of history ,, and the lesser Reform Bill for the purification of the local councils has become the subject matter of public debate . The faults of the first are the faults of the last likewise . Rierhts
are secured to the people , by law , but they are denied their exercise , by a system of private penalties over which the law has no controul . The people may vote for their representatives , but it must , in many cases , be as their taskmasters choose to direct , under pain of their taskmasters' persecution . The only remedy for this is to deprive the taskmaster of the knowledge how his
dependent votes , by enabling the voter to vote in secret , i . e . to vofe by ballot . At the word ballot rise a host of Whigs and Tories , denouncing all socrccy as unmanly , un-English , and cowardly . Let all these charges be made good , and what then ? If the coward needs strengthening , andean be strengthendby the ballot , then the ballot is a good thing . A man ' s unprejudiced judgment is needed to choose the best men at an election ; and all things
which tend to unsettle his judgment should be removed . The real objection of Whigs and Tories to the ballot is not that it is in itself cowardly , but that it is a stronghold to cowards , and makes them as effective resisters of arbitrary power as those who possess more nerve . The dishonest ballot-opposers like cowards , they are the fittest men to submit to their evil influence ; they like slaves , and they hate all things , and the ballot amongst them , which tend to
raise the slave into a freeman . There are honest opponents of the ballot who abhor it because it is secret , and secrecy is the opposite of frankness ; these people would have all men brave and incorruptible ; they would have a nation of heroic patriots , ready to ^ toaet every species of self-sacrifice for the pure love of country . Theie j ^ op lei argue upon falee assumptions . They take it for gtaimkV th ** fcll Ewglfehmeil atfe Hampdens , that every shop-
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CORPORATION REFORM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 476, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/40/
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