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    the many customers , as well as on the rich customer . Antagonist influences may place his livelihood in equal peril . It will not be a little that can sufficiently excite the many to this species of retaliation or counteraction , nor will it ever survive the nefarious

    proceedings which shall call it forth ; but it may be produced : and for this worst result of the club system that can ensue , you , my lord , are , to the full extent of your influence and authorit y as a statesman , responsible .

    Where would be the occasion , or the excuse , or the opportunity for exertion , of these associations and counter associations , but for those deficiencies in the Reform Bill to the remedying of which your lordship is the most decided opponent ? Simplify the right of suffrage ; extend it to all householders ; get rid of the eternal complexity of the present plan of registration , if that indeed can

    be called plan which is altogether * puzzled in mazes and perp lexed in errors ; ' make voting free by making it secret ; and to a large extent the clubs would find their ' occupation gone . ' The defence would be superseded by the attack being rendered impracticable . The Barrister ' s Court would dissolve before the ballot box , together with all the expense , chicanery , vexation , disappointment , and party bitterness , of which it is the occasion .

    And to this it must come . Until it does come to this , will the Tories , though defeated , still combine ; and Reformers , though victorious , will not be so strong but that they will find it needful to associate . Large bodies of men are not to be diverted from the pursuit of great interests , whether party or public , by such logic as that of your letter . Nor , even had your immediate and professed object been attained by it , would your ultimate and far

    more earnest purpose have been thereby realized . Your arrow is not long enough , nor your arm sufficiently nervous , for the shaft to reach the vitals of Jieforni association , through the sides of Tory clubbism . Until the security of common interests shall be attained , by the recognition of common rights , the principles oi Reform will combine the exertions of those by whom its worth is appreciated . Your lordship ought to ' be grateful to Reform clubs ,

    even under their most oilt ' iisive designation : the Political Unions oi' 1832 enabled you und your colleagues to redeem those repeated p ledges to the nation , that the Reform Hill should pass , which you had yourselves become impotent to realize . Whether you deceived yourselves , or whether the King deceived you , certain it is that in May of that year you were bankrupt to the people , whose united real and energy , which you had ho often tried to damp , alone

    discharged your voluntary and solemn obligations . The Reform Bill wan promised by yourself and your colleagues , but it wns carried by the Political Unions . You had told them to bo quiet , as you now tell the election clubs to be quiet . Jiut the lesson is not lost . Your advice mther deters than stirnulutes . The good of it consists in its not beiutf taken . It has superlative

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    44 ft A Letter to Lord Stanley '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/6/