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    Constitution . They carry not the con viction home , that a better might not exist . The very nature of the case when simply stated , would seem to warrant the preference in favour of an equitable and more general representation . And the simple / a ^ must

    tell for something , that America , though harassed , as is to be expected , with a variety of subordinate feuds and conflicting opinions , has not , like England , a large , respectable , restless , and growing- party of Reformers , who are discontented with the very frame

    of the government , and unceasingly aim at its alteration . But besides the preferable structure of Congress , it probably contains as large an average amount of wisdom and ability as any

    promiscuous half of the British Parliament . We have great names and choice spirits not to be shamed by yours . Generally speaking , each representative to Congress is among the cleverest of the fifty thousand who

    elect him . In numerous cases , it is quite a gratifying matter of curiosity to witness the instinctive attraction which causes populous cities and counties to select from among their inhabitants the master-mind of the whole , whose single name operates as a charm to reconcile the most

    inveterate parties , and to secure at the hustings an unanimous result , without the expense of one syllable of flattery * one dollar of bribery , one squeeze of solicitation , or one pint of whiskey . In the state of Georgia ( one of the

    most democratical states of the union ) at the very last election * there were nine representatives to be chosen to Congress , and only nine candidates offered themselves I la consequence or this spontaneous and unimpeded buoyancy of talentswe have no pure

    , blockheads in Congress ; no herd ; no wielded mob of dandies ; nq personifications of vacuity ; our most anting Tariff-men , with a } fttle display at limes of helpless ignorance and ludicrous mistakes , had always

    something better to offer than " I r £ J . p } f * let . 8 ° on wad ** ave tiie arm . " An immortalizing * speech ! IVU ^ ledel ) at « on the New Ch urches ' Ul "> Mr . Hume must hjwq iq-ade some remarks not recorded by t-be Reporter . * « o not find in his speech any lances tae misrepresentation , nor Olne l ticular references , with Which vol

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    Dr . Lushington and others charge him . Dr . Lushirigton will find it hard to reconcile the two following propositions : c < He ( Dr . L . ) was always a friend to toleration ia the utmost

    latitude * * * * . At the same time he would do every thing in his power to support that Establishment of which he was a member . " Lord Palmerstone said , ** There was no principle of union so binding as community of opinion and religious belief . " Hardly so . Interest , family , country , are in general stronger tics than that .

    " He wished Dissenters to enjoy every toleration , but he did not de- * sire they should increase /' Grant them every toleration , and they will infallibly increase . The mighty speeches of Sir Isaac Coffin remind me of an address which

    I heard that Honourable Gentleman deliver at an examination of the public Latin School of the city of Boston in 1822 . He is by birth an American * and was educated at that seminary . After professing his gratification at the exercises , he addressed some of his usual sententious advice to the

    pupils , and , to encourage them m their future exertions by the sight of a living example , he bade therrj look upon him , who , in consequence of the advantages enjoyed by him in that very institution , had attained ( according to his own words ) " raqk , wealth , and distinction , a command in the British navy , and a seat in the British

    Parliament . " Prussia New Common Prayer Book . It would have gratified one ' s intense curiosity to know what specific alterations have been introduced into this liturgy .

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    Tie Au thor j > f the Hymn of Mary Magdalene in Reply to Animadversions . 465

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    Crediton , Sir , August 2 > 1825 . YOU have permitted a correspondent , who dates from

    Kenilworth , to insert some remarks ( p . 393 ) upon a trifling composition of mine , the " Hyn > n of Mary Magdalene ;* ' to which , I trust , that ypur feelings of justice will allow m ^ a place in your miscellany to reply . Who the author of the communication

    may be , I have neither the means , nor the wish to ascertain ; and from this time I have only to say to him , as

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 465, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/13/