Volume 183302
England and the English / by Edward Lytton Bulwer.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Date:
- 1833
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: England and the English / by Edward Lytton Bulwer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and now they erase it as incontestably the most obnoxious; they reflect on the placid stream of their serene subservience every shadow in the April heaven of ministerial supremacy. But we shall find on a more investigating observa- tion, that by the very loyalty of their followers, the Whig ministers are injuring themselves, “they are dragging their friends through the mire,” they are directing against them the wrath of their constituents, they are attracting to every sinuosity of creeping complaisance, the indignation and contempt of the country ;— in one homely sentence, they are endangering the return of their present majority to the next Parliament! That a Whig majority of one sort or another wil] be for some years returned by the operations of the Reform Bill, I have before said that I cannot doubt ; but the next majority will be less vast and less confiding than the pre- sent! The great failing of the ministers is want of unity,—the Reform Bill united them, and during its progress they were strong; the Re- form Bill passed, they had no longer a rallying point ; they seem divided in opinion upon every thing else, nay, they allow the misfortune. What mysterious hints do you not hear from every minister, that he is not of the same mind as his brethren. Did not Mr. Stanley declare VOL. Il. O](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33029362_0002_0305.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
