The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-23 00:00:00

EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ.

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LONDON, •
MONDAY EVIZNING, JANUARY 23, 1837.

The Tories of South •Devon held a grand jolli-
fication at Totness on Thursday last. The object
of this gathering together of the west country-clod:
pates was to glorify their sage Representatives,
Sir JOHN BULLER and Dummy PARKER. It. is,
• we are ready to admit, little better than a waste of
time to notice the crudities which are spluttered out
at meetings of this de.scription. :row and thee,-how-
ever, we happen to light upon a -topping' rhapsodist,
whose lueubrations are in some degree interesting from
their very extravagance and surpassing absurdity. :Such
a person is this Sir Jou sr HULLER: On that,subjeet
of subjects, the Ballot, the senior. Member for South
Devon thus delivers himself :—" It tended to • open
the door to much corruption, and to introduce a sy's-
tem of bribery which it would he utterly impossible to
reach or to put down. The voting by ballot, - besides,
would often excite great suspicion of unfairness. A
man might thereby get the power of putting in more
than one ball for the candidate he favoured." These
views are original. They are at least new to us ; and
however we may feel the force of such powerful ob-
jections to a measure which we have much at heart,
because we regard it as indispensable to the free exer-
cise-of the elective franchise, we cannot withhold our
• aced of praise L—indeed of admiration—from the
man, political - opponent though he is, whose
sagacity has enabled him to make such grand
discoveries. Our -ingenious anti-ballotist scorns to
follow the beaten track in his speculations. It is , the
attribute of genius to trace out a path for itself. Not
that Sir JOHN BULLER disdains to avail hirriself of
other supports to his argument than those which he
hews out of his own mental quarry. Far from it. He
dovetails very nicely, and like a first rate workman, the
new into the old. Thus we find him stating, what we
believe has been once or twice stated before, that " a
system of secret voting appeared to him to be totally
opposed to the open-hearted character of Englishmen."
Now, if we might presume to differ from so high an
authority, we would demur to this assertion, and say
that it is more easily made than proved. What is there
un-English in secrecy ? Do those who so strongly
advocate open voting, as the only system consistent
with the English character, prove by their own ex-
ample that they are sincere in so doing ? Is the ballot
ever resorted to at the Bank—at the India House----at
the Club-houses? We must not in charity suppose that
it is. It is impossible to believe, for one moment,
that the great and the affluent adopt secret voting as
the means of shielding themselves from the conse-
quences of their votes, and yet deny the same pro-
tection to the poor elector who stands so much more in
need of it, because he is so much more deperidfrit.
We cannot, we say, believe it possible that that is
done by the Duke,' the Marquis, the Earl—by oli-
garchs and aristocrats of all sorts and sizes—which is

considered so very derogatory to the English character
—so heinously un-English, when perpetrated by the
.‘ fiArm t, c tradesman, and the artizan. Perhaps Sir
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jigW ER will enlighten us on this point. We
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A • aim adieu for the present.

t Niti.-"tindepl'i'ild a deputation of the United, Com-
orhot:e4tant Dissenters, representing the con.,
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