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waa one of the class to which I refer , and which can boast of man ? whose learning is far more ample , whose logic U more cogent , ami whose minds belong to a much higher order of philosophical intelligence , although in simplicity , integrity , and beneficent of purpose , he can neTer be surpassed . They act on his plan of telling , at all times , all truth which concerns the public weak It matters not to them who is in office , or who is out of office *
They ask not whether the discussion of any particular topic will advance the interests of one party or embarrass the movements of another party . They wait for the signal of no leader . They hang not back until there has been an opportunity to feel the pulse of the public . To inquire after political truth and justice is their sole object in private , and with the public their sole business it to set forth the claims of truth and justice , and commend sound principles to the sound intellects of the nation . That we should
not find them at the head of parties , or sections of parties , is not surprising . That few of them should yet appear in the House of which your Lordship is the leader is only what might have been expected . Their day is not yet come . But symptoms of Hi approach are not wanting . The party of wise , honest , and infiex *
ible men , of men who know no expediency but the paramount expediency of telling the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and who see nothing in institutions but machinery for realising the utmost possible amount of good for the entire com ? munity ; this party , my Lord , is decidedly on the increase , both
in numbers and in influence ; and eventually it must be thfl most powerful of all parties . But I apprehend that - your Lordship must be classed mth politicians of a different school , and who , though they may , on principle , and to so large an extent as to demand our warm , gri ^
iitude , be the people ' s friends , are yet certainly not ' too fond of the right to pursue the expedient . ' You * are a Whig , my Lo rd * and Whigs have ever been the apostles , end very often , not very unjustly , the martyrs of Expediency . Compromise is their watchword , both as to men and measured . ( Every political
life / it was once said in the ' Edinburgh Review / ' to be useful , must be a life of compromise . ' < Every great measure / ftaid your colleague , Sir John Hobhouse , in one of the discussion * on the Municipal Reform Bill , ' is necessarily a compromise / Tfe * maxim is not v « ry happily illustrated by the measure wbioh ocon riontd its enunciation , and which is certainly not the bettor fov
having been advocated with » uoh an understanding . In so fsjr m thare i * compromise , no measure it greet . Its greatness eon « £ * tjl in tha consistent ( application to practice of * just and useful prw » ei ple . Any deviation giy « s k the character of littleness . If * W » nutoaer , compromise i * sure in the long run to 4 c *<** y > « i » cl * &- » tftft + c vmy fnm « f > % , tb » moral power of * politician , homum splendid his taleatet fA * . Jdb * 4 m * dtf ie Mt is so proud Had
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 695, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/3/
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