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    The brief interval ,, during which we write , between the completion of the election returns and the meeting of Parliament , would furnish materials for an extraordinary scene , were it possible to exhibit pictorially the phenomena of the moral world , as the painter delineates those of the material creation . Externally , it is one of comparative repose . The constituents have waged their warfare , and won or lost the prize for which they struggled ;

    while the representatives , an equally pugnacious body , have not yet begun their conflict . But this quiet is chiefly external . At no season , perhaps , except on very extraordinary emergencies , is there more of strong and turbid political feeling than in this interval . The glow of recent success , the bitter recollection of irretrievable mistake ,, the rage of defeat , the self-upbraidings of indolence or delinquency , the planning of what might have been done and of what shall be done another time , the stimulated sensation of new

    enmities or friendships , the excited discussiorl of characters , measures , or principles ; the anxious speculation Into future proceedings and consequences ; these , and a thousand other commotions , are mingling beneath the smoothened surface of society , unquiet elements , that would readily relieve themselves by the outbursting of another storm . We are much mistaken if a large proportion of the people would not rush into the excitement of a second

    election with more zest and avidity than they engaged in that which has just been terminated . Scarcely any result short of having beaten the opposite party by at least two to one , is sufficient to slake the electioneering fever , when once the blood is really up . It would not be wise in the Dictator to try a succession of dissolutions . The popular spirit will not soon cry , ' Hold ! enough !' There are defeats which it is eager to retaliate ; and triumph only puts it in the mood to sing , ' If it be na weel bobbit , we'll bob it again . ' We have no doubt that the fresh election in March , with which some of the Tory journals threaten the country , will , should the threat be realized , produce a Parliament decidedly more hostile to the Administration than the one now chosen .

    T 3 ut although , as politicians , we look with satisfaction on the security which this condition of the public mind affords against the daring and desperate designs which have been prematurely avowed , we cannot but lament it as evil in itself , and as a mournful object of contemplation , when compared with the state in which the country might have been but for the intrigue , cupidity , and

    caprice which are allowed to sport with the welfare of millions . These excitements are only less unwholesome for the nation than would be the demented baseness that would quietly return to the condition from which we have emerged . They are not that troubling of the waters which is caused by the descent of an angel , and succeeded by the gift of healing ; ihey are only a

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    THE ELECTIONS .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/73/