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most--deeply-felt . Nor is your naroerife in the world for what you have done any more than for what you are . Even such aehievetmmts as yours , worth all the laurels that inert * warriors ever won , do not permanently inscribe the glory of a liberator on sands that ai e washed by the never-resting titles of human interest , and that require every twelve hour ** a new inscription to
replace tha , t which has been obliterated - Who talks oi' Clarkson now 1 The Emancipator of Irish Catholics might have taken liis place in oblivion beside the Emancipator of African slaves , did not his continued activity make us feel his presence . And you do make your presence felt , from Derrynane to Dublin , from Ireland to England , and through all the extent
of newspaper ubiquity . Your letters of the last month would fill a volume . You are the world ' s " Constant Correspondent . " I must postpone awhile the main purpose for which I now address you , to make a few remarks on two of your recent epistles .
Considering" the provocation , you have used Sir Francis Burdett gently and generously . He seems to have presented himself to your imagination , uttering words with which your priests have not prevented your becoming acquainted , " I have been young , and now am old . " The Electors of Westminster have si stern duty to perform , and I trust they will perform it unflinchingly , but not unfeelingly .
" Let ' s carve him as a dish fit for the gods : Not hew him as a carcase for the hounds . "
He cannot un-be what he has been . Nor , while the drivelling of imbecility are shrouded , —yes , even in spite of the cold-hearted factiousness that , for itB paltry purposes , drags them before the public , —shrouded by ourselves from our own minds , never let the liurdett of former days lie forgotten . If already , '' being dead while yet he lives , " it is only his memory that can be consecrated , then const-crated be his
memory ; and the more sacredly in our minds if it fail from his own . It is worse than absurd to undervalue him , as some of our liberal Journals now affect to do . There was soul in him ; clear principle , high feeling , and singleness of purpose : all made the more illustrious by the times of trial during which he ran his glorious career . For years he was the cause of Reform , und his hand alone upheld the banner around which only rallied the men of Westminster . Thousands of us there
itre who should never have been what we are , but for the intensity with which he concentrated all the rays of patriotic feeling upon the single essential |> oiut of Parliamentary Reform , and ministered b y his eloquence , his often unprompted eloquence , to that tlame oi excitement which long burned a& m a shrine , but at length burst forth and wrapped the temples of corruption
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54 Agitation , qf Peerage Reform ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/54/
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