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who constitute that oft-quoted and Lord-hated ' pressure from without' which , without much apparent effort , pushes down all opposition to the e movement / The men who constitute this pressure speak , in language not to be misunderstood , their
determined meaning . All nave spoken well , but none better than the ' Trades of Glasgow / who , on a former occasion , approved the spoken purposes of Lord Durham ; nervous , manly , and discriminating is their language ; the thoughts strong and forcible , and the words well-chosen .
It is not now as in the days of ancient barbarism , when mighty empires were erected on brutal conquest , and maintained by physical force . Now the idle trappings of useless pomp , the tinsel show , the ill-got wealth , and the unmeaning title of unconstitutional place and power , charm us no more . It is the man , stripped of all the mummery of adventitious accompaniments , and standing forwards on his own personal merits and native energy of mina , that the people gladly hail and delight to honour .
Although the House of Commons as a body have , durin g the late session , proved it an outrageous fallacy that the people of this empire are fully , fairly , and freely represented , —have allowed the barbarous restrictions on the newspaper press , the inhuman restrictions on the importation of foreign corn , the State Church
establishment in Ireland , and many other abominable acts and monopolies to continue in active force , and refuse the slightest protection to the labour of starving thousands , —we rejoice to find that there is among that body a powerful band of resolute patriots , ready at all times to lead the van in the march of Reform ,
and whose efforts must ere long , if properly backed by the pressure from without , successfully triumph . These hard-handed and strong-brained men have got rid of the cant of Respect ability , that sworn cheat who , under external fairness , professing to be the semblance of virtue , is a basecoward , and guilty of all a coward ' s vices . Who abandons an unfortunate
friend ? Respectability ! Who called the Radicals low-born knaves ? Respectability ! Who turned Radical when Radicalism became powerful ? Respectability ! Who would seek occasion again to abandon it , were the Tories to regain power ? Respectability ! The men of Glasgow seek no aid from Respectability . 4
They care only for the man , stripped of all but personal merit and native energy of mind . * The House of Conimous they have divided into two parts , the respectable men , and 'the band of resolute patriots . ' They know what the House of Commons has done , but they have not forgotten what it has not done , and they will bear it in mind till an effective House of Commons shall
exist , speaking honestly the people ' s will , and sternly carrying that will into effect , unmoved by the clamours of party , uuawed by the threat * of despotism , and uninfluenced by private feelings or sympathies , The House of Commons , as at present comtti-
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On the Clou of the Session . 68 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 636, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/11/
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