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    able , and somewhat inconsistent with the practice of a free State ; btitl teli you , that my opinion is decidedly in favour of the Ballot . ' ******* ' I would not accept the highest office in the gift of the Crown ; I would not even receive the warm enthusiastic approbation of you , my fellow-countrymen , if either were gained by the concealment of a single opinion , or by the compromise of a single principle . '

    His language , further on , speaks fully how earnest he is , how strong and true of purpose : * I have been thus explicit in stating to you my views , and I call upon you , and my countrymen at large , to arm for one of the deadliest straggles that has ever occurred in the history of this country , and which must inevitably take place . I call upon my countrymen , from one end of the kingdom to the other , to express , with one voice , their fixed deter * mination never to rest satisfied until their liberties are secured , and all

    those reforms obtained which the Reform Bill—itself only a means to an end—places within our reach . Preserving all loyalty to the King , let us show him , at the same time , that if he be disposed to place confidence in a particular party and class of politicians , we , on the other hand , will exercise our right of expressing our disapproval of such men and their

    measures , and our determination to oppose them to the utmost of our power . ( Cheers . ) I will only say , in conclusion , that my humble services may be commanded by you and my country at all times ; and that I shall be always happy to co-operate with you in the ranks , or in any situation in which I may be considered to be capable of producing benefit . '

    If there be truth in printed words , there can be no doubt that Lord Durham is earnest and sincere in his purpose of making the great mass of the community the source of power both legally and morally . It has been objected to him that he is personally an Aristocrat ;

    that he loaths the contact of inferiors . This may be partly true . In the contested elections of Westminster he called himself a Whig , and he was not sparing in his expressions of contempt for the Radicals , who were opposed to his party ; but it must be borne in mind that the error was one of the head rather than of the

    heart . He had seen much of the rascality of contested elections and of the immoral conduct of electors who made patriotism a cover for venality . That he judged of the sack by the sample , or that because he had found many electors to be unworthy , he judged all to be so , might bean unreasoning error savouring of aristocratic morgue ; but it is no evidence of criminality of intention . His

    training was not of the kind best calculated to bring forth benevolent feelings , and it bespeaks a noble nature which improves in benevolence in mature age . Lord Durham may still possess a Coriplanus spirit , which shrinks from the contact of petty selfseekers , who brawl forth catchwords of patriotism as a means of importance they can no otherwise attain ; but no high or generous spirit will condemn him for this , if they believe his words spoketi at

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 263, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/39/