A Calm Consideration Of The Present State Of Public Affairs

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first advance of the enemies of human happiness will be insidious; but if it be not resolutely checked, they will march with the rapidity of desperation, scattering misery and destruction in their path, to the assault of the throne and the profanation of the altar. To avert the horrors of revolutionary France, and a surely succeeding despotism from our homes and our loved ones, requires but one effort, and now is the time to make it! Will you allow the moment to escape ? Can you be so far sunk in apathy ? If you would not have repentance, bitter and unavailing, come too late, beat back at once and for ever the insolent brawlers who even now dare to challenge the sacred prerogative of the King, in the inviolability of;; w.hich; both prince and people are equally interested. The fate of Britain depends upon your firmness. Loyal Englishmen, stand forth and support your Sovereign, and the servants he has chosen to carry on his government, or William IV. will be the last of our kings, and the youthful hope of Britain, the Princess Victoria, will never sit upon the throne of her ancestors. You have a security against misgovernment in the power which you possess of returning your representatives to Parliament. By their means you can at any time overthrow a bad ministry, by simply outvoting them in the House of Commons. But, unless it were possible to chapter{Section 4imagine a Cabinet selected from the maniac Destructives,—the revolutionary Radicals without character or guarantee of any kind, the day is gone by when we can ever see bad ministers. The late Cabinet were not bad men, but they were ignorant and incapable; they commenced by cajoling, and ended by deceiving, the people ; they got into power by holding out a bribe to the lower orders; they promised to them impossibilit...
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  • ISBN-13: 9780559707308
  • Publisher: BiblioBazaar
  • Publication date: 12/9/2008
  • Pages: 56
  • Product dimensions: 8.00 (w) x 5.00 (h) x 0.12 (d)

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first advance of the enemies of human happiness will be insidious; but if it be not resolutely checked, they will march with the rapidity of desperation, scattering misery and destruction in their path, to the assault of the throne and the profanation of the altar. To avert the horrors of revolutionary France, and a surely succeeding despotism from our homes and our loved ones, requires but one effort, and now is the time to make it! Will you allow the moment to escape ? Can you be so far sunk in apathy ? If you would not have repentance, bitter and unavailing, come too late, beat back at once and for ever the insolent brawlers who even now dare to challenge the sacred prerogative of the King, in the inviolability of;; w.hich; both prince and people are equally interested. The fate of Britain depends upon your firmness. Loyal Englishmen, stand forth and support your Sovereign, and the servants he has chosen to carry on his government, or William IV. will be the last of our kings, and the youthful hope of Britain, the Princess Victoria, will never sit upon the throne of her ancestors. You have a security against misgovernment in the power which you possess of returning your representatives to Parliament. By their means you can at any time overthrow a bad ministry, by simply outvoting them in the House of Commons. But, unless it were possible to chapter{Section 4imagine a Cabinet selected from the maniac Destructives,—the revolutionary Radicals without character or guarantee of any kind, the day is gone by when we can ever see bad ministers. The late Cabinet were not bad men, but they were ignorant and incapable; they commenced by cajoling, and ended by deceiving, the people ;they got into power by holding out a bribe to the lower orders; they promised to them impossibilit...
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