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    has , as we anticipated , decided the question whether they are capable of doing good when compelled by the public voice . They ran do good when they are forced . They have even proved , that when not opposed by the interests or prejudices of any powerful class , they can , as in the case of the Poor Law Bill , do good spontaneously . For this we give them due honour : we thank

    them for it as for a great service past and done . But there are no services of like importance remaining to be rendered , at no cost to the peers , or the clergy , or the landlords , or the lawyers , or the manufacturers , or the shipowners , or any other kind of persons who are accustomed to be kept at the public expense , and who are able to fight hard for the privilege . We have , therefore , little expectation of further unforced service from Ministers and their

    adherents . But we now know that they will yield to gentle violence . What wishes they have , are now on the people ' s side . When the Movement left off waiting for them to lead the van , its onward pressure bore down all those among them who would not move , or who would only move at their own pace . None remain but those who always go with the stream , and those whose preference is for the cause of improvement , although they were wanting in courage to head the contest for it . ]\ ot

    only are these the men now in place , but until a better and nobler race * of public men shall arise , none but such as these , it is now evident , can be in place . With these the people will carry by peaceable means , whatever fhey are bent upon carrying . The pike and the bayonet will not be wanted in this country . What the ten days of May , 1832 ,

    rendered probable , the session of 1834 has made certain ; that the English revolution will be a revolution of law , and not of violence . The resistance will give way before the moral force of opinion . The experiment was fairly tried on Lord Grey ' s resignation . That two years ago the Tories were not allowed to step in between the people and the great constitutional change which

    tney so ardently desired , cannot so much be wondered at : but after the Reform was safe , and no measure which the people cared about was in any immediate jeopardy , the Ministry broke down by its own imbecility ; the Conservatives had svich a chance as they can never again have ; yet even then , Tories and Conservative Whigs were alike rejected ; and even out of the ruins of the same shattered Cabinet , a still feebler one was patched up , because the only Ministry which could exist , was a Movement Ministry , and because ,

    just at that time , no better Movement Ministry could be formed . And until the phrase shall cease to have a meaning , and Reformer a Conservative shall be a distinction in history alone , a Movement Ministry and no other will govern England ; or rather , will k governed by her . If we be asked , then , what has been gained ? our answer is , Vtnumsp ice . Is not the general aspect of politics quite altered

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 607, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/3/