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The speeches of the late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, bart
The speeches of the late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel bart Author:Robert Peel Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the consequence of the change we are invited to make, -- ?? the compensation for the risk we must incur? Positively not one. Up to this hour, no one has pret... more »ended that we shall gain any thing by the change, excepting, indeed, that we shall conciliate the public favour. Why, no doubt, you cannot propose to share your power with half a million of men without gaining some popularity -- without purchasing by uch a bribe some portion of good-will. But these are vulgar arts of government; others will outbid you, not now, but at no remote period -- they will otter votes and power to a million of men, will quote your precedent for the concession, and will carry your principles to their legitimate and natural consequences. On all former 'rc« less