The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-18 00:00:00

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1. " I am at a

the Govern

, 1815

andmarks

stian cons:itution

shall soon

ne pr►nc
ants v

to that of heathe

he days of the

ragernent to

of Popery in Great
removed.

Britain
The C

her reach ; th

I to be

D, whilst men

who or

to bel

11 which Rome

ad to enjoy her temporalities ;
g to throw down the frail bar-

and w

nice of fallen Israel from
Jral affairs of a Christian
et rid of the few disquali-

R. froth the

Sover

at the Reformation, and

admit M

00, and infidel, upon
. . ___

even terms, to scramble, in common with Toiies,
Whip, and Radicals, for supremacy in the govern-
ment of British communities, or of the empire ?

It can no long

with truth he said, that there is
Leh the mass of the nation will

a poi

beyond v

e principles which have guided us in
past times to be violated, or beyond which conces-
errnitted to be carried. We are

'ion r

dead to
tional.

se of consistency, individual or na-
! resolutely blind to all the warnings

of experience or of history, and impiously and
madly deaf to all the solemn teachings and the
threats which God himself has placed on record for
our guidance, and that of e ery nation of believers
'e. The scoff of the fool is the
answer to the faithful voice which would remind us
that the sin of a nation will as surely bring down
the wrath of Heaven upon its head as the sin of an
individual. Philosophers sneer at the very thought
that nations and legislatures are responsible to any
authority, or affected by any influences, which are
not merely temporal ; and even Conservative men
and statesmen act as if they acknowledged only
such influence —shrink hack from the direct path
of what they know and feel to be duty, rather than,
by perseverance, incur the " dread laugh" of men
whom in their hearts they despise. By a kind of
tacit consent, those vital considerations which ought
to direct the regulation of society—the care of the
the national morals, and the
aside, whilst they devote
's and the talents with which they have
-ad higher objects, to splitting
hairs and weighing soap bubbles.

in his provide

national happiness,

national religion—

been gifted, for better

Examirfe the tone of society during the past two
Or three years ; glance over the proceedings of the
legislature during that period—in fact, since the
accession to office of the present Government, for
from that period we date the lamentable change
which has taken place in the national mind. What

nizing of trifles we see—what
!onsiderations—what dread

anxious care for

g cup of the rich should let a drop
run over to cool the parched lips of the fainting
poor, or the full garner let a grain escape to relieve
the gnawing hunger of the pennyless ! Enter the
House of Commons, or pore over its dry debates,
and see, on the one side, with what interest and
3r less of protection is
with what rapture a ray
e trade is greeted ; and

fierceness a grain

weighed—OT
of the ignis fatuus of ft
thiß, w

on the other

,cting the happiness or
of millions of human beings are mooted to
ears, and the destruction of institutions,

nded down to us as interwoven

at is valuable in our social system, is
i with utter apathy, as beneath the no-

are like mariners who
on a dangerous beach, for
Jr worthless weeds, or tempting
nk by plank is borne down to de-
-,ore our very eyes, the timbers of the
essel upon whose preservation alone we
end for transport in safety to cur distant

scram

of any

prim
They

:essary.
And her(

once to ti

minis-

is more

d for private

character