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preventing an immediate return of ttie Tories to power , yet that they make all the difference as to further organic reform both in the Lords and the Commons . They make all the difference #£ to the efficient , complete , and permanent
exclusion of the Tories from power . There is no certain provision , against Tory re-action , but by immediately strengthening thfcj people in their own House . It must be done forthwith , or the country is betrayed . No union of Reformers can loog support the Whigs in office , if they obstinately refuse to receive that accession of strength which the Ballot alone would be sufficient to secure for them . It will be of
no avail , that even you hold the balance of power , if they will not agree to let the nation throw its weight into their sdale . They must kick the beam . The majority which biKmght them in , is gone already . Agitation , solely for an objeat which must be years in its accomplishment , is merely a diversion , and may be a fatal one . Some one or other of the
"Organic Reforms" must be pressed for immediately . The duty of all true Reformers in Parliament is plain and urgent . The timer is come when they must make a staad for a nearer approach to that entire representation which is our only safeguard . The sun of any morning may rise upon a Peel and Wellington Administration . And then where is Ireland ?
Where , but trampled beneath the iron hoofs of Orangeism , —of Clerical Ascendancy , —of Military Tribunals ? Soon would thgy , as you have predicted , make the entire country " one blood-red Rathcormac . " The horrors of ninety-eight may be re-enacted . Women may again feel the drummer ' s lash upon their backs to make them betray brothers and fathers to the executioner ; and the pitch cap , the triangle and the
walking gibbet perambulate the country , to quell rebellion against a system which cants about the mutilation of God ' s word , but has been little careful of God ' s image , when its own pelf was in peril . For you would infallibly be goaded into insurrection ; and the army is yet machine enough to " make a solitude and call it peace , "—the peace of death to your liberties and ours . Or if the engine should recoil , or crack , in the atrocious work , still through what fearful scenes would both
countries have to pass to resume the progress and the prospects which are now before them . And is the creation of such a world of mischief and misery to be risked because a Ministry , which Cannot stand alone , is too pragmatical to defeat a party by conciliating a nation ? It seems scarcely possible .
At least , let theni be put fairly to the test ; Peerage Reform will not grow cool the while ; and if they refuse any , or all of the obvious means for averting a speedy return of Tory domination , on their own heads be tlw ? consequences , and in our hands Ik ? the remedy . W . J Fox .
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Of Agitation of Peerage Reform .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/62/
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