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this consequence , which will certainly follow should you persist ? Could you face the disbanded Peerage coming out , some afternoon , from the hall in which they had been cashiered , each one shrugging his shoulders and saying , ' For this we may thank Wellington !—Would he had died at Waterloo V
You are the champion of the Church , my Lord Duke , and Chancellor of the University of Oxford . To be sure there is something in this of what Bentham would have called the risibility-exciting aptitude . There are those who doubt whether you can construe your own diploma without your chaplain ' s help . No doubt they scandalize ; and I think it may safely be averred that your religion is equal to your learning . The theological exhibitions which you have thought it your official duty to make since your instalment , are perfectly amazing . You first detected the atheism ef the Dissenters , and announced the Thirty-nine Articles to be the articles of Christianity . Your name alone exeited as much enthusiasm at Oxford as did ' the Bishops' and ' the ladies' together , on a recent occasion at Cambridge . * And no wonder ; for in the visions of the holy and hopeful sons of clerical
expectancy , you appear like Banquo ' s ghost with a glass , in which they behold bishops and ladies in long and beautiful perspective . Now it can scarcely be doubted that the reinstatement of your party will sharpen the edge of the controversy on Church Reform to an unprecedented degree of keenness . You turned the Whigs out before on the Irish Church question , and so converted them , practically , to the appropriation principle . You will convert them to something more next time . Depend upon it that if there be any attempt to go on without realizing some practical good for the Irish people out of the revenues of the sinecure Protestant establishment in that country , without conceding to nearly their full extent the claims of the Dissenters , and without a broad measure of English Church Reform , the cry of separation between Church and State will become a popular and enduring cry , and one which eventually must prevail . In no other way can that cry be hushed , even for a brief period . Nothing keeps it down bat the confidence of the Dissenters in the present Administration , combined with the earnest desire of all enlightened politicians that
the ecclesiastical funds should be turned to account for the good of the community , and not be sacrificed in the scramble and confusion of the abrupt destruction of the alliauce of Church and State . To see your party again in power will make both these classes desperate . They are not to be trifled with . You will bind together the Radicals and the Dissenters out of the House , as fast as you have bound together the Whigs and the Radicals
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 505, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/5/
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