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Letters and Other Writings of the Late Edward Denison; M.p. for Newark
Letters and Other Writings of the Late Edward Denison Mp for Newark Author:Edward Denison General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: R. Bentley Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Extracts From Speech At Newark. " Having said so much about independence, you may still think I am a nondescript, and say ' Liberals we know, and Conservatives we know; but who are you ?' I feel the terrible force of that denunciation. A nondescript is a being, I believe, who has not been described. I will hasten to describe myself. I have never denied I am a Liberal. I am a Liberal, and I glory in being a Liberal. All the ends which any true Liberal proposes to himself, those I aim at also. And in calling myself an Independent, I have only intended to show that I was not prepared to follow servilely any party leader. Not only that, because I do not think that the old party limits have been traced out with regard to a state of things which has now, to a great extent, passed away. There are new questions arising now almost every day. I think the policy of the future will be determined upon very different grounds from those which have influenced the structure and outline of existing parties ; and in calling myself an Independent candidate, I certainly did intend, and I do intend, to reserve my liberty of action as to the path I may take in important measures which certainly must in the future be introduced without reference to any old obsolete distinctions between man and man. . . . " I have said in my address that I was opposed to the ballot, and I have said that in my opposition tothe ballot I was countenanced by a great many Liberals of the most advanced type, whose names are justly held in honour by all friends of progress: therefore I did not consider that, in declar...« less