Speeches Delivered on Public Occasions in LiverpoolThomas Kaye; published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1825 |
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acknowledgment antagonists assembly assure believe blessings borough British constitution Brougham called candidates Canning's character choice Colonel Williams commercial conduct confess confidence connexion contest course Crompton Crown DAY'S POLL declaration doubt duty Earl of Sefton election enemy England Europe exer exertions express favour feelings flattering forward FREEMEN OF LIVERPOOL friends Gascoyne Gentlemen happiness Henry Blundell hope House of Commons House of Lords hustings imputed individual interests John Bolton kindness Leyland liberty Lord Sefton majority meeting ment monarchy nation never nexion number of freemen occasion Old Sarum opinion opponents Parlia Parliament parliamentary reform party peace period Pitt political popular present prosperity public principles question recollection representation representative respect right honourable ROBERT GLADSTONE sense sentiments sion SPEECH spirit struggle success suffer suffrages sure thank thing tion to-day town triumph trust votes whigs WILLIAM HUSKISSON wish worthy
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Side 98 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Side 222 - Before this dreadful assailant, empires, and monarchies, and republics bowed : some were crushed to the earth, and some bought their safety by compromise. In the midst of this wide-spread ruin, among tottering columns and falling edifices, one fabric alone stood erect and braved the storm ; and not only provided for its own internal security,' but sent forth, at every portal, assistance to its weaker neighbours. On this edifice floated that ensign, [pointing to the English ensign,] a signal of rallying...
Side 319 - That the people are, under God, the original of all just power; that the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, being chosen by and representing the people, have the supreme power in this nation...
Side 304 - But social right is not a simple, abstract, positive, unqualified term. Rights are, in the same individual, to be compared with his duties; and rights in one person are to be balanced with the rights of others. Let us take this right of meeting in its most extended construction and most absolute sense. The persons who called the meeting at Manchester tell you, that they had a right to collect together countless multitudes to discuss the question of parliamentary reform: to collect them when they...
Side 228 - You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. The most formidable weapon against errors of...
Side 155 - I have stated to you. It is, Gentlemen, that I am an adventurer. To this charge, as I understand it, I am willing to plead guilty. A representative of the people, I am one of the people ; and I present myself to those who choose me only with the claims of character, (be they what they may,) unaccredited by patrician patronage or party recommendation.
Side 323 - I could; and it is quite useless to attempt a delusion upon persons quite as sagacious in their generation as any moderate reformers or antireformers of us all. They know full well, that the whigs have no more notion than I have of parting with the close boroughs. Not they, indeed! A large, and perhaps the larger, part of them are in their hands. Why, in the assembly to which you send me, gentlemen, some of those who sit on the same side with me represent, to be sure, less popular places, than Liverpool...
Side 101 - ... the national interests and corresponded with the national character? I address myself now to such persons only as think the character of a nation an essential part of its strength, and consequently of its safety. But if, among persons of that description, there be one who, with all his zeal for the glory of his country, has yet at times been willing to abandon the contest in mere weariness and despair, of such a man I would ask, whether he can indicate the period at which he now wishes that such...
Side 364 - ... the water like a giant rejoicing in his course, — stemming alike the tempest and the tide ; — accelerating intercourse, shortening distances, — creating, as it were, unexpected neighbourhoods and new combinations of social and commercial relations, — and giving to the fickleness of winds and the faithlessness of waves the certainty and steadiness of a highway upon the land...
Side 326 - ... previously to face the storms of the hustings. I need not say, Gentlemen, that I am one of the last men to disparage the utility and dignity of popular elections. I have good cause to speak of them in far different language. But, among numberless other considerations which endear to me the favours which I have received at your hands, I confess it is one, that, as your representative, I am enabled to speak my genuine sentiments on this (as I think it) vital question of parliamentary reform, without...