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of th $ lawv which so loves the crooked path and eschews the straight one . But the mayors are to be the chief magistrates , according to the Act , by virtue of being mayors . The Crown , like a cunning fox , knowing that it has not much to apprehend from the radical tendency of mayors , has taken care to secure to itself the appointment of all salaried judges : patronage must be preserved to it , it would seem , fall what may . But , however , so long as the 6 crown shall hang on a bush' or a , we of the people can afford to let the
ministers of the crown have the appointment , as , after all , some one must appoint , provided always , as Acts of Parliament express it , that we the people shall have the power of removal upon show * ing cause in the bad behaviour of the crown-appointed judges . We want responsibility , and the power of removing inefficient or partial public officers is a far better guarantee to us than any power of electing them could possibly be .
The mode of voting proposed , by means of a writteu ticket , so much resembles the machinery of the ballot , though entirely distiuct in its effects , that the nerves of Geoffry Lord Stanley were sadly shaken by it ; he feared that the fangs of his ' order' were finally clipped by it . How truly Whiggish is the arrangement , to look like the ballot and yet not be the ballot ! But we of the people neither fear Geoffry Stanley nor Robert Peel . They may perchance cut down the bill in a House of Commons committee , but they will not tear the purpose it is meant to serve out of the hearts of the people . * God do so to us and more also' if we
wrench not the power of misrule from the hands that have so long welded them . Let our right hands forget their cunning , whenever our brains become dull or our hearts become cold to the high and noble cause we have espoused—the great cause of human freedom and human progression .
Junius Repivivos . June 23 , 1835 . All who have the cause at heart will do well to peruse the jfratnphlet of J . A . Roebuck , and the pages of a most valuable periodical , ' The Municipal Corporation Reformer . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
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486 HazliWs Fir $ t Esuty .
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William Hazlitt ' s first work was the ' Essay on the Principles of Human Action / or « An Argument in Defence of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind . The idea ori ginated in hi * reflections on a speech which Mirabeau , the accredited author of th * f Sy « teme de la Nature / has put into the mouth of a supposed infidel at the day of judgment ; and the first rough
" ' * i Prl |^ iplt »^ f Human Actio n Socqml editiou . Millar , Qxford-strcqt ,
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• f — ^—— —¦—— —• — ¦ ' - ¦ " ¦ — HAZLITTS FIRST ESSAY . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/44/
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