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ftoTrOrypMAfti ^ tiTi ^ is altogether \ ccmtimgewt upon theirreontii * tt * d wi * . ¦ JfVijthouJt , them ' ; you . can $ « offer us no * security ; that thp . RejG ^^ ifiiU srhaU not be mutilated in the very * next -session fit 2 ? arv lttk * beat . The measures which are to shed a glory around -the Ua * n £ 8 df yourself and your coadjutors in the pages > 6 fv history fo
may au be > reversed or perverted . And' is it expedient ^ r- you tQ tell them that they have nothing to hope ; thaty as their gup * popt t i # disinterested in all that relates to personal objects > it shall fete disinterested also in all that relates to public objects ? Think yo * l that the Tories may not be glad even to coticede organic ^ h ^ Lnge as the purchase of their cooperation ? Mistake me . not ,
i ** y Lord : suppose not that I think any bargain has been made Of should be made , or that I do not hold any compromise of principle to be most disgraceful . The mischief is that your party ia . so much addicted to practical compromises , and that they . are all made in one direction ; that they are concessions to your and the people ' enemies , while none are made to your supporters
and the j > eople ' s friends . Why should you not concede sometjnifrg , even of organic change , to the Radicals , who alone enable yfax to , carry anything ? Why could you not at least have preU si \ ryed tbe silence of neutrality ? Where are you , and all your plans of public good , if they should attach sufficient importance tQ . your language to be alienated thereby ? Were they men of the old party standard , such would very probably be the
oonsequemce . They are not ; their patriotism is of a higher spirit ; tljeir preference of your party to its opponents is too decided . But it scarcely becomes you , as a parliamentary leader , to sow the seeds of division among your own followers , and . declard befprehamd that you will , if possible , baffle the efforts of a large aod patriotic band of allies . You may not , and at present you oaflawxt , transform them into enemies ; but your language inevitably tends to damp their zeal , to loosen the bond of union , and
toidestroy your parliamentary power to serve your country . , A » d > although the parliamentary Radicals should yield you ujidiixunished support and cooperation , there may still be a loss of . streagtb which they cannot prevent . The popular feeling must be taken into the account . Neither they nor you have power but unth the * people at your backs . Now , my Lord , Whiggism chiefly exists ; iftti * e Aristocracy . Amongst the people the division is into ttaformsrs ^ and Tories ; and a Re former is pretty nearly
synoar-WtiUs withift RaxiicaL The elections are deceptive on this mat ^ tefc : * i 1 ? b ^ choice is biassed . and confined by various circuirat ^ nees Whio ^ - ! ane » £ toljr of temporary influence . Only let the difference be&veeft ^ Whig Reformer and Radical Reformer become sp s ^^ igjy . na ^ rked and practioally important aa youv languaaa t ^* dscto m ^ kt it ^ aad you will spon see a largo accession to . tM now increasing ^ strength of the latter in the House of Commons . Xhff ^ Mbftcmi ft d& ^ Jeng **]* ; chao ^ e is widely « i ^ r « Wit ' ^ ^ t lamojt be oppowd without the forfeiture of popular sympathy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 700, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/8/
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