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box in which all were rbtteq ^ To , rnake ^ p ^ pwWr ^ I % ^ p ^ « f itself constitute a Peer might alleviate tttfa * ni * cb * e £ Jfl ^ l ^ m ffmentail others ,: and imply an abrogation of royal ' pp ^ rog ^ y ^ j that would occasion difficulty . : We are sorry to see sonae ctf t ^ e 3 # ) $ ftt reform writers ( advocating imperfect schemes , und ^ r . lljp , npjttyp that popular prejudice rwul not allow them to go further ,, tt w ^ jcp better to go on discussing the subject until such prejudice . ( iffit really exis £ ; to / the extent supposed , which is very douhtful ) , pe abated . . Inefficient half-way measures are , in most cases . jn $ t-
uitely move naiechievous than a little longer endurance of an $ y \\ , the nature and extent of which , then become so glaring as to ensure its eradication . Sheriff . Raphael ' s affair has made an amusing variety . in tJiQ fe attacks upon GTConnell which , have , of late , formed the staple of the Tory * newspapers . As there is not the shadow of pyoof of personal peculation in the case , the outcry on this matter is only
one of those impudent hypocrisies which are so abundant in politics . Previous arrangements about the expenses of # n election , and guarantees from individuals or clubs that the candidate shall not bear more than a certain amount , are most familiar , notorious , and almost universal occurrences . Nobody l ^ now ^ this fact better than do the writers of these diatribes , the paijons and paymasters of those writers , and the very readers wJm > elevate their hands and eyes in amazement at O'Connell ' s
unparalleled profligacy . By tacit convention they all agree to ] oe thunderstruck ; the only marvel is , where a sufficient number of fools are found to make the exhibition worth while , and prevent the actors from laughing out in . the middle of the solemnity . Such further improvement in the electoral system as shall cut
off the influence of money , and make the choice of a representative necessarily the result of unbought opinion , has not be ^ n hinted at . That is the last moral to be drawn by this cla&Sjpf political purists . With similar hypocrisy , and with a JiJfc ^ avoidance of the real remedy , has the evidence before the In < tirni < A&tian Committee been worked up into a succession of telling- art ^ cipp , showing , by one set of politicians , how the Irish priests , ^ rui by another how the English landlords , have cruelly aruj infamously abused their power over the . voters . The simplicity that ahquld
ask , Why not , then , take away the power which U abys ^ ij , J ^ y rendering voting secret and free ? would only get itself laughed at . The only evil reall y lamented is that the prie ^ t ^ or the jandlords , do not pull the right way . The facts will not be l <^ t , i >^ verth ^ - lesaw If Organic Changes are still to be resisted , it , wiU be tipxn « io defect in the practical demonstratioai of tbeirjiec ^^ y ^ ,, The tares yield a harvest every month . Priestcraft l ^ e b ^ n inore busy , according U > its . kind > th ^ a we have Un ^ , $ 0 , jt ^ l and
JBpiseopa ^ y Pre ^ byt ^ riauifira wm ,, ^!^ Wfc *^ d iw , a genoupu * fimlry * 1 Both } uwt ih&riitotytytk ' ^ fawiato such diversity as accords with their varied character of spiritual
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 761, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/5/
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