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    while the battle for freedom is raging that the combatant * dmw plans for future public edifices . The speech which is intended to arouse the free-born warrior to the lion-mood , is not as the dgfarte of

    the council-chamber . When it may be definitely settled that opinion shall be free , it will be time enough for opinion to throw off the helm and cuirass of the warrior , and don the flowing robe of the philosopher . When we have won our land fairly , we will debate boir to cultivate it in the best manner . Time was that William Cobbeit

    was held to be a prophet by large numbers of people , because he was the first in the field to fight the opinion-battles of the poor man ; but as intellect expanded , and knowledge advanced , it is remarkable that some of the keenest criticisers of his unphilosophic effusions were the writers of the unstamped press . They detected and followed him up , exposing the errors in his writings which

    militated against the welfare of the people , and combated the sensual doctrine he advocated , of making beer , bread , and bacon , the acme of a labourer ' s longings in return for hard labour . Simultaneous with the period of his decease appeared the first of a new series of pamphlets , edited by John Arthur Roebuck , M . P ., haring for their object the instruction of the people on all subjects of

    political and social importance ; and at the same time , the exposure of the machinations of their open enemies and false friends . If these pamphlets be carried on in the same spirit with which they have been commenced , they will play no mean part ip the elevation of a people second to none on the round globe for their capabilities , and only hitherto kept back because their rulers conceived themselves interested in their ignorance . Mv opinion of

    the powers of J . A . Roebuck has been given before . There are not wanting those who decry him as * an adventurer , ' ready to side with any party for the sake of ambition ; as one not to be trusted ; one who will make of the people a ladder , and who , having climbed on their shoulders to power , will forthwith kick them away . It is a most detestable spirit which so commonly seeks to decry superior ability ; which seeks the miserable equality of pulling others down to its own level , instead of raisin *? itself to theirs : but let the

    objectors have the benefit of their argument , and what does it amount to ? The word * adventurer , ' in their vocabulary , maaas a man who without riches contrives to attain influence over his fellows . Riches are in their estimation the only security fcr honesty ; they hold them to be a sort of bail for good behaviour ,

    or , ad they phrase it , ' respectability / There certainly hare been examples enough of poor men rising to eminence by advocating the cause the poor , and then betraying them by selliag their political freedom . William Pitt , ami Ldmund Burke , and ( jaorga Canning , all began with what is called 4 opposition / and imikd with being tiine-lervers . Bui rich men also have done thfe * a * vntneta om Francis Buitfett , in our own tunes . There are ttfcor

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    The Roebuck Pamphlet * . M 7

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/47/