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1819 June 29
To Erskine
Lett.7 Whigs AntiReformists
S5 P of 4 Whig Excellence
Conclusion
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Rather those a
People should choose
a Whig: rather than
a Tory because
he can seldom
his own party interest
without serving theirs
But rather than a
Whig of the strongest
talents; a Peoples man
a Radicalist of the weakest: because
by supporting reform
the weakest can do
more good than by
all other means put
together the strongest
The On the occasions in question the people, though
without any of their confidence mightshould always in preference to
a Tory alias a Ministerialist alias a Tory alais a Pittiti gave their votes to an Whig,
a man appears to those Oppositionist, alias a respected Whig, alias a Toriti: because
how slight so ever the may be regard of the respected Whig for this
interest, and in particular how determined or ever his
opposition to all efficient parliamentary reform, he can not serve
his own party any further otherwise than he contributes to check
the Ministerialist: in the course of ab, and that to serve
the peoples interest: but in preference to the Whig they should
give not only those votes, but a their confidence, that is provisional and always ted and defensible
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