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tresse3 flint they cannot even provide forms for the children to
sit upon."
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'These extracts, coupled with the speeches delivered
at the Manchester meeting, place the question of the
necessity of a plan of National Education in the
strongest light. The people will not longer tolerate
such a state of things. The working classes must be
educated. The welfare of the country demands that
they should ; and it is the duty both of the Govern-
ment and of Parliament to take measures for securing
them such instruction as shall tend to make them use-
ful and virtuous citizens.

The advocates of oligarchical Government are fond
of twitting the Reformers with inconsistency, because

the latter arc anxious to have thc'lleforin Bill amended.
" The famous Reform Bill," remarks a morning cir-
culator of fashionable frivolities " is not yet five years old,
hut the democratic party arc already weary of the
changes which it has produced. It is not enough for

them." There is a little mistake here. The Refor-
mers are not weary of the changes produced by the

Reform Bill, but of those enormous evils which the Bill
was intended to remedy, and which but for the unprin-
cipled conduct of the Tories it would have remedied ;
and so weary are they of these evils—so much do they

etest and abhor them—that they are determined never

to rest until they have put an end to them. Had the To-
ries, at all times and under all circumstances the enemies
of liberty, given the Reform Bill fair play, or anything
like fair play, the Reformers would have been satisfied
with it, for they are as averse to change, merely
for the sake of change, as the Tories are. The
object of the Reform Bill was, by extending the
suffrage, to secure a fair representation of the poli-
tical sentiments of the people in the Commons' House
of Parliament. Has it done so ? Not even a Tory can
be found so case-hardened in conscience as to say that
it has. And why has it failed? Because its pro-

visions, most of them good in themselves, have bee❑
perverted or evaded by a faction acknowledging no
principle of honour or morality, and recognizing
no rule of action, but that which leads by the
shortest way to the gratification of a base self-
interest.. It is to the manufacture of fictitious
votes by Tory agency—to the corruption of the elec-
tors by Tory gold—to the coercion of the electors by
the tyranny of a Tory aristocracy—that we owe the
failure of the Reform Bill. Now the very purpose of
the Bill was to prevent all such iniquitous and uncon-
stitutional practices ; and as it has been found, on trial,
totally inadequate to accomplish this purpose, the same
reasons that induced the Reformers to demand it, now
call upon them more forcibly than ever to demand one
that shall do its office effectually. Is there inconsis-
tency in this? No. The inconsistency would be in
resting content with a measure which answers not

the ends for which it was framed. The charge
brought against the Reformers is therefore equally ab-
surd and unjust. It shows that the accuser is either a
simpleton, or something not quite so respectable—that

he either does not know, or does not care, what he
says. The changes which the Reformers desire arc
merely such as shall make the House of Commons in
practice what it is in theory—the representative of the
people, speaking their sentiments and embodying
their power. How this is to be best attained may be
a question even among Reformers; but every thinking
man, whatever be his political creed, must allow that,
until it is attained, it is a glaring abuse of terms to say
that we live under a representative form of Govern-
ment. If the question at issue between the Reformers
and their opponents be calmly considered, it will he

found to hinge entirely upon the point—whether we
shall have such a form of Government or not ? The

Reformers and the Constitution say " Aye"—the
Torics " No." When it comes seriously to a division,
we know—and so do the Tories—that the " Ayes
will have it," and that, too, by an overwhelming
majority.

The Tories at all times, in season and out of season,
delight in talking about a re-action in their favour ; but
the empty boast deceives no one, because the evidence
of facts, the best of all possible evidence, proves that
the policy of theiF, party is not only as odious to the
great body of the people as it ever has been since the
spread of knowledge ; but that men's minds have now
arrived at the settled conviction that the ascendancy
of this party of political knaves is inconsistent with
the public interest. The public now know and feel that
the spirit of Toryism is the spirit of self-aggrandise-
ment, incorporated with a grinding tyranny the more
dangerous as it. often assumes a fair exterior. The
Tories have fallen—and in our consciences we believe
we may add—never to rise again : they are wrecked,
and are compelled to trust for getting again into the
harbour of place to one single plank. Open voting is

:hey know• that plank—let them lose it, and they lose
ever all chance of preying upon and pillaging the
people. The introduction of the Ballot and the sub-

mersion of the unhappy Tories will be contemporaneous.
Give the people the Ballot-shield, and they will at once
deprive their enemies of the power of doing further
mischief to the country.
With this conviction of the efficacy of the Ballot,
we cannot but be extremely gratified to perceive that
the flagitious acts performed, the fatal outrages com-
mitted, and the scandalous scenes of debauchery in its
most disgnsting form witnessed, at the last general
eleetien, have been attended with at least one counter-
vailing beneficial result. The " foul influences which
were recently in active operation, more or less, pretty
generally throughout the breadth and length of the
entire kingdom, we are rejoiced to find, have engen-
dered in the minds of the healthier portio❑ of the elec-
toral body a determination to get rid of them. The
alarmed and deeply injured electors have been stimu-
lated to exertion by a dread, no less just than strong,
of a recurrence of that frightful, degrading, and demo-
ralizing exhibition which was recently occasioned by
the Corruptionists, whose lust of power led them to
acts of political profligacy—of unexampled turpitude
—and whose disappointed mllice has since-broken out
in cruel and tyrannous oppression.
In proof of the progress the demand for the Ballot
is making, we may refer, amongst numerous other evi-

(knees, to the great meeting held a day or two ago at
Framlingham, in the agricultural county of Suffolk.
The report of this numerous and respectable meeting,
at which were present deputations from upwards of
forty parishes, will be found elsewhere.
This important and influential demonstration of
public opinion, we learn, originated with Mr. JOHN
tr.ns, a Reformer, with whose zeal and perseve-
rance in the cause of civil and religious liberty gene_
rally, as well as his suffering for conscience sake, few
pet sons arc unacquainted ; and to whose self-sacrificing,
conscientious, and uncompromising hostility, in parti-
cular to Church-rates—that odious impost, in which
meanness and -inkistice arc equally manifest—we have,
on former occasions, so frequently had the gratifica-
tion of bearing testimony. That the same man who
has so often denounced Church-rates should now be
foremost at Frandiugham in demanding the Ballot is
consistent ; for, it is obvious, that the ecclesiastical
impost is a consequence of misrepresentation—one of
the numberless evils and gricvanas necessarily resul-
ting From the defective state of our representative sys-
tem. There must ever be an identity of interests be-
tween the Church-rate abolitionists and the advocates
for the application of the protective principle to our
electoral machinery. The Ballot, it is seen, is the
political lever by which the burthens of Dissenters, as
well as those which press upon all the other members
of the community, may be removed.

We have now lying before us a petition pre-