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question—there is little reason for your party to expect anything but more beating until the dose shall be sufficient . There are no middle men to win over ; you have had them , and much good they did you . The time has been , since the passing of the' Reform Act , when you might have cajoled some wrong-headed Radicals into a temporary cooperation ; but that time has . gone by for ever . It would have ended then with the turn-out of the Whi g *;
it will not now begin with that . With the Whigs themselves you are in a position which is fortunate for the country . Your quarrel with them has gone too far to be patched up .
• Never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep . * Between them , and you there is now a gulf fixed , which no sacrifice of a patriot , or of a host of patriots , can fill up . To them your touch is disgrace and destruction . What then do you dream of doing ? You must dissolve Parliament . But there is the Corporation Reform Bill , my Lord Duke ; what will you do meanwhile with the Corporation Reform Bill ? Will you pass it in the vain hope of purchasing popularity for the elections ? Why , the enforced and hollow boon will augment
Even should you gain a few more votes , you will have to encounter an Opposition of a more stern and vigorous character than that which so recently wrested the reins of government from your hands . You cannot rule the country by means of a House of Commons chosen under the Reform Act , provided the people be in a state of excitement ; and into that state they will assuredly be put by the prospect of your return to power . It might have been done with a little more patience . You should have allowed the Whigs to go on a few years longer , supporting them in every unpopular measure , but leaving the odium to fall on their heads . They might have been caught in that snare . They had begun themselves to think of the possibility oi' your partial return to office . The blue and buff feelers had been put forth . The germs of corruption in the Reform Act would also have ripened rupidly . The little constituencies would yearly liave become less , and in the inverse proportion vendible . Your time would have come fatt enough ; but , thank ** to the rapacity of faction , you could not wait . You have thrown away your chance of again ruling , for a time , through a corrupt House of Commons . What then will
the strength of ttie Reformers arrayed against you . Will you reject it ? The consequent excitement will give them yet greater strength . Any way your party must come to the poll under less favourable circumsLances than they did in January last . The Whig and Radical coalition was then only in embryo ; now it is firm and compact . Another election will go far towards absorbing Whiggism into Radicalism . The last contest was chiefly fatal to the undecided and temporizing . The next will be yet more so .
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502 Framings to ihe Tories .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/2/
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