Exercises, Political and Others Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... to keep their Places. 95 world, that while they valued its friendship, they neither feared its hostility nor forgot what they owed to their own country?1--BlavkwooiCt Edinburgh Magazine for November, 1840.--p. 576. Here is the avowal distinctly made, that had the Tories been in office, the brutalities of the Whigs could not have been committed. We should have escaped the brand of felons stamped on our persons in the Chinese infamy. The ally and friend of Englishmen in Egypt, would have been safe from the attack directed against him in pure and simple animosity to the progress of civilization, and desire to sustain the rule of barbarism and ignorance. These personal disgraces we are coolly told we should have escaped, but for the invention of making the Whig the doer, and the Tory the exulting prompter. For all this, you will see the "good reformers" will rush on; at all times equally abusive, mendacious, and eager to reach the spoils of office. If the Chartists would leave off theory for a time and betake themselves to practice, they are the only men who, by exerting each in his several sphere such influence as may betide him, could tame the insolence of the traitors, who under the title of " good reformers' have stopped up all avenues to reform. London, 27 Jan. 1841. p.S.--The Chartists have gained a move at Leeds, by forcing the professing Liberals to admit them to their meetings in the proportion of half-and-half. This is what our God-fearing forefathers called "using the means." The Chartists are evidently to be the men, if they will only bestir themselves in the way that other political parties have done before them. But they will add wonderfully to the reverence their new allies will have for them, if they will exert themselves to...