Speeches, Ed. by H.W. Lucy (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of Queen, Lords and Commons, and the Established Church, are but conveniences and useful commodities, which may be safely altered, modified, or even abolished, so long as the alteration, modification, or abolition is left to the Whigs to carry out. The Radicals tell you that these institutions are hideous, poisonous and degrading, and that the divine caucus is the only machine which can turn out, as if it was a patent medicine, the happiness of humanity. But the Tories, who are of the people, know and exclaim that these institutions, which are not so much the work of the genius of man but rather the inspired offspring of time, are the tried guarantees of individual liberty, popular freedom, and Christian morality, that they are the only institutions which possess the virtue of stability, of stability even through all ages, that the harmonious fusion of classes and interests which they represent corresponds with and satisfies the highest aspirations either of peoples or of men, that by them alone has our Empire been founded and extended in the past, and that by them alone can it prosper or be maintained in the future. Such is the Tory party, and such are its principles, by which it can give to England the government she requires?democratic, aristocratic, parliamentary, monarchical, uniting in an indissoluble embrace religious liberty and moral order. And this party?this Tory party of to-day?exists by the favour of no caucus, nor for the selfish interests of any class. Its motto is?of the people, for the people, by the people; unity and freedom are the beacons which shed their light around its future path, and amid all political conflict this shall be its only aim?to increase and to secure within imperishable walls the historic happiness of English homes. CALLED TO BIRMINGHAM. (a...