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In resuming our observations on the Ballot, not
directing them to the utility of that measure, but solely
to the conduct which Ministers ought to adopt in re-
gard to it, we must consider them as the heads of a
great party. In that character only do they stand be-
fore the public, and in that character only are they
kept in office. What their private opinions may be,
is of no consequence ; as Ministers, they are the
creatures of a " system of opinions"—the servants of
a great party in the State—and with that they must
stand or fall. We may indeed remark, modern events
have so completely baffled all previous political specu-
lations, and have set so completely at nought the wis-
dom of the wisest statesmen, that no man is now
entitled to insist with great pertinacity, whatever may
be his knowledge and his acquirements, on his own
political opinions, as the one saving and true
political faith. Holding all his political theories, there-
fore, at single anchor, as has been said, to denote a rea-
diness to slip them, he must, when he comes to act, 1
side with a party, cr he cannot in politics act at
all. For one man to insist OA making his own
peculiar opinions the rule for other men, is the
Tory, or despotic principle of government, which
has been continually set aside in the progress of
society, and was completely trampled under foot at the
period of passing the Reform Act. The very prin-
ciple of a representative government then confirmed, 1
if not established here, is that it shall be conducted
in deference to the opinion of the majority, and not in
deference to the opinion of one or a few persons, how-
ever illustrious by birth or acquirements, who constitute
a small minority. Not only is it no disgrace in the
Ministers, it is their duty, as the chosen heads of a
representative government, to defer to the opinions of
the majority, rather than to act on their own opinions
wherever a difference or conflict of opinion exists.
But to what majority are the Whig Ministers
to defer ? To the majority of their own friends and
adherents, or to the majority of their opponents
Clearly to the former ; to defer to the latter would b 2
at once to give up the leadership of their own army of
friends and become subalterns or mere camp-followers of
that of their opponents. If, therefore, the majority of
their usual supporters in Parliament, as now elected,
and the present majority of their supporters throughout
the country, the bulk of the doctors, are favourable to
the Ballot—if they insist on it as the only means
of protecting them in the exercise of the franchise which
the Legislature gives them, it is the duty of the
Ministers to sacrifice their own opinions on the sub-
ject, and act on those of the great majority of their
party. Such a doctrine is embraced by both sides.
The followers of Sir ROBERT are not less obedient
to his signals, than are the followers of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL. Each individual of both parties is conti-
nually required to fight in the ranks, and to refrain
from all isolated skirmishing; to submit to a rigid dis-
cipline and to give up all his own crotchets, in order to
secure the success of his party. Within the last few
years, nothing has been more continually and more ju-
diciously pressed on the Radicals who support the
Ministers, than the necessity of foregoing their own
particular views, in order to hold the party of Refor-
mers together, and keep out the Tories. And well,
we must say, generally speaking, have the Radi-
cal Members of the House of Commons, listened to
the judicious counsel. Now, on the principle
on which they have been called on to act,
which has obviously been so serviceable to the patty,
do we call on the Ministers to sacrifice their own par-
ticular dislike to the Ballot—if they have such dis-
like, and act with the majority of their friends. If,
as we believe, the bulk of their supporters in Parlia-
ment, and out of Parliament, are resolved to have the
Ballot, we do not see how they can set themselves in
opposition to it, without denying the representative
principle—without breaking up their party, abdicating
the leadership, and becoming private individuals.
When we remember Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S decla-
ration at the commencement of the Session, we are in-
duced to hope that he will not take a decided part against
Mr. GROTE'S motion. Lord J. RUSSELL'S declara-
tion was directed against the Ballot, as connected with
Short Parliaments and Universal Suffrage. Now, it
happens that the warmest supporters of the Ballot, the
great body of the present electors, are opposed to Uni-
versal Suffrage, and, by conceding the Ballot, Lord
JOHN RUSSELL would, in fact, strengthen the ram-
part against the extension of the Suffrage by their aid;
while, if not conceded, they will demand the extension
of the Suffrage as the next best cure of the intolerable
evils they now suffer. Consistently, then, with his
own principles, and his own desire to ward off further
organic changes, Lord JOHN RUSSELL ought not to
oppose Mr. GROTE'S motion. We know, also, from
his speech at Stroud, that he is aware of the evils un-
der which the electors now labour, and if he cannot
devise a better remedy for them, he is bound
to try the Ballot. Shortening the duration of 1

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