The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-19 00:00:00

VOTE BY BALLOP.

(From, the Norfolk News.)
TO TILE HONOURABLE WENMAN COKE, IL P.
Sir,—Being interested in obt-dning for myself
and other voters protection in the discharge of our
public duty of choosing Members,of Parliament, I
am sorry to see that one bearing the honoured
name of Coke should be so (at least) reserved on
that question, that we, who have seen only the
short accounts of your el. ction speeches which the
London papers give, are ignorant of your opinion
on the important question. Fearing- from your
silence that you are neutral on, or oprosed 0, the
ballot, I a;k your attention to some arguments in
its favour from the pen of an aristocratic and, at

the same time, able novelist.
In " High and. L )w," by the Hon. Henry Coke,
in the first volume, you will see narrated a discus-
sion on the ext: nsion of the franchise an I protec-
tion to the voter, between Mr. Gregory, Lord
Longvale, Mr. Bellows, and Sir Andrew Fitzbun.
At pane 205, Mr. Gregory represented saying— .
" There is a cl..ss of men wh )se intelligence and
information is far ahove the standard of intelli-
gence and information in many classes higher than
themselves. These men, under the present system,
have no nominal qualification whatever. Numeri-
cally, they form a large body. Intellectually, they
are the most f ,rmidable one in the Stale. Wholly
to accede to their demand is impossible. All that
remains it to temper resistance with discretion;
end protract the evil which threatens us, till supe-
rior knowledge shall reveal to them the truth that
an identity of interest pervades all classes, and that
no real amelioration cm accrue to one by any in-
jury inflicted upon another.
" t That men of the class I refer continued
Mr. Gregory, are excluded from the privileges of •
the franchise is by no means the gieatest evil. A
still worse is that those whose names are registered
as froe and independent electors, those who possess
the right to vote, and are supp used to exercise that
right to the best of their discretion, have, after all,
but a nominal voice, a vox et prxterea nihil, iu the
choice of their representatives. The electoral voice
to them is a bell without a tongue—a cheat foisted
upon them in place of a reality, a lacquered farthing
made to pass for the sterling guinea. It is same
yearP, my lord, since I have meddled in electionter-
ing matters ; but I rem, mbar to have seen many a '
your man curse the privilege which our constitu-
tion boasts of. He cared little that his vote be- ,
longed to his employer and not to himself.. But be
thought it very hard to be compelled to use that
vote contraty, not only to his interest, but also to
his principles. I have seen many a pour tradesman
ruined because he could not vote three.- different
ways !' •
" Very right, very right too I No doubt he dee
served it, said his lordship. 'Property must . and
will carry its'properintiiience. What do such block-
beads know about legislating for the country ? And
who is so fit to direct them as their better educated
human institutions, bteh abuses in
n lord. aii
Tuere is no remedy for this
' th et I see. It always has been so long as I can re-
em,p,l::hearta
qtuheesr.teiowni,lll
member, and always will be so to the end of the
, chapter.'
Because it always was so, is the be ter reason that
it should no longer be so. Ido not see that abuses,
like your wine, my lord, improve with age. I
doubt, with all due deference to your assertion,
is
whether the employers are the fittest persons to
bßeegsgi
De Besides,
tshi
er,
direct the employed. I doubt whether they are
alwa3 s better educated‘even ; and if they are, you.
must admit that the interests of the two classes,

however closely allied, are not precisely identical.
" ' You say there is no remedy for the undue
influence exercised by the employer. There is
one, at lea-t, I think, and only one. I sin-
cerely trust, for the welfAre of this country, it.
will not be long before it becomes tho established
law of the land. I mean the Ballot.'
" At this offensive word, Lord Lprigvalo.pished.
and pshawed with great vehemence and disgust..
Bellows drank two glasses of claret in quick axle-,
cession, pulled down his waistcoat, and brushed-
his hair on end as if preparing to annihilate Mr.
Gregory ; but, thinking better of his violence,.
said not a word. Sir Andrew puffed, picked his
teeth, and said preposterous."''
Although found in a novel, there is as much
truth and Eound relsoning in these remarks on
the ballot as in anything on the queition that
ever issued' from the press or has been spoken in
Parliament or on the platform.
I a4l: your careful consideration of them
memberbefore,.
as Pmber for Eist Norfolk, you vote on the bal-
lot. They will c Ane to you wiih the greater force,
since they are wlitten by, I believe, your brother.
Your obedient servant,
E. C. W.
5, Guildhall-chambers, London, E.C.

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