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    general election . But there is not yet a purchaseable majority of seats . Try club law . Put forth all the power of influence . Shake the whip with one hand , and the purse with the other-Much of the old enginery is yet capable of action . The Church , the magistracy , the army , are still intact . The sentence is gone

    forth upon corporations , but not yet executed . ' Organize , organize ! A long pull , a strong pull , and a pull all together for the Tory ascendancy , which enabled so many to revel in the fat of the land , conveyed by taxation to the indolent from the laborious . Such is the obvious policy of the party ; obvious alike to friends and foes ; not the less obvious for being desperate .

    However much to be lamented , it is little to be wondered at , that stupendous exertions should be made to bring back the reign of corruption . Whether in accordance with , or in defiance of , the principles of the British Constitution , it . boots not now to inquire , but it is certain that the practical working of that Constitution has been to generate a class interest in the misgovernment and plunder of the community . Under the pretences of preserving

    peace and order , of defending the country , of teaching the people religion , and other like plausible pleas , an enormous tide of wealth has long been steadily flowing in one direction . Was it likely that those towards whom it flowed would quietly see its course diverted , although such diversion was for the common good , and accompanied by the transformation into realities of these old and plundering pretences ? Could we expect of an entire faction the rare magnanimity of relinquishing such golden advantages and prospects , merely on account of their injustice ? Of that they have perhaps but a very faint perception . They have been trained to what they are by the working of our institutions , and morality itself has been warped by the same process ; they will make fight , and this alone would render necessary the counter

    associations of Reformers . That the latter should be anything more than defensive is much to be deprecated , but it may very possibly happen . The excitement of party spirit , roused in keen conflict , may be provoked to repel influence by influence , and intimidation by intimidation . There is not so much reason to apprehend this on the Reform , as on the Tory side , because , while the Tories are banded together by a party interest , the Reformers are only leagued by their portion of the common interest . The selfish and party principle is as much feebler , as the benevolent and patriotic principle is stronger , in the one case than in the other . But it may happen that the rights of individuals , the free exercise of the franchise , will be invaded on both sides . Nay , more ; should the Tory aristocracy persist in the exercise of that power by which individual wealth may enable them to command the votes of dependants , the fearful but not astonishing reaction may follow , of non-dealing resolutions , by their more numerous opponents . The tradesman depends on

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    on Conservative and Reform A ** ociation * . 441

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/5/