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374 The Leader mid Satwday Analyst. [Apr...
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Still prouder are they when they stand u...
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OUR FUTURE CONSTITUENTS. MANY of our ren...
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374 The Leader Mid Satwday Analyst. [Apr...
374 The Leader mid Satwday Analyst . [ April 21 , 1 SC 0 .
Still Prouder Are They When They Stand U...
Still prouder are they when they stand up to their knees in ernevakVnecks and brazen plumes , and in mountains of rabbits and haves . - FS-iSsdviS wo conf & the pule face of the lean , feverish tenantry lookin- slavishly on , or toadying the msolent keepers takes oil all i ? r appetite for that bqA of gunpowder faine . It si . 11 more vexes ns tE with all his pride , Sir P > . B ^ ka ^ t seems to us alter all , litte better than a large poulterer , for we always , the next day after a battue , see a brimming cartful of pheasants driven off to catch the first London train atIlainstcwn . . : ¦ . .. , . ... Let it be said , to the credit of Blazeawat , that the lean mIla ^ eis are not poachers . Now and then a mauvais ^ ujet , who ¦« 1 e ^ entuallv enlist , in a drunken fit of during defies ^ e kee per * , ami ; has a bloody grapple with them amongst the young ash sapling - leaving pc-rluips , some keeper with broken arm or cracked skull aTo - tlfe g-orv violets , and the crimson primroses , m the centreo ? circTe of trampled mire , with a wire noose or a shivered gun-stock % ^ id ^&&~ £ ^» 7 ~ z * iis ^ kSei a * 3 c wife and live children , and . pay house-rent , on ™ » 1 » H >»** ? wLk and never to see meat , and to rise early and work late > -m ? hspoulTerer ' . sslH . pofBl . AZEAWAY ' s and yet not to be allowed to touch anvtlring . We are afraid it would set our fingers itching , and make < " . r- appetite irritably acute . _ . Thee people have poor houses-Sir B . B . does not drain them thev are half under water . Death-ague is the . name of that water The poor people bale it up from under their very climrs , yet Tp tient and conservative are they ^ by long habit that tb «[ never think of grumbling—poor serfs . 2 s ow we do not sav that bn B II . Las not a righ t , to starve his labourers and keep them on Imv wholesome diet ; wo do not deny his right to stuff his woods - . ^ ua of phoa-mfs that they can , hardly move their wings ; he m . , i ^ he j chJo- turn the Bi ^ aLaavay covert , into over-crowed zoologica Stes - but we dotbink in equity , if not in justice , that he should I ° little restrain this large-hearted wish Tor game preserving-. He , should not increase the temptations of the ill-fated , hard-fortuned poor : he might at least feed them with occasional garae _ dinners ; he . - Siieht narrow the restrictions of his cruel laws : he might let t .. o . . rabbits , go , and keep the hares and pheasants for himself , llie fer . neVs would" bo no losers , an 1 Messrs . Dilir and . Dai * V would Kvin . oro . choned of becoming good shots f thegame were a little wilder mid scarcer . But w « fear men of the Bxazeatvay class are j incorrigibly Hellish ; they look on the poor as dung as -beast * of , burden ; they acknowledge not the ; duties o landlords-whut they want thev pay for , and there is an end . They will go on boiling rabbits ami -chopping eggs and nursing pheasants with the hit ot the land till the family vault gapes for them , and the heavy bell summons them to-a meeting of ga : ne-presevving ancestors ' This is an old twist in the Norman blood , ever since th ; 0 - cruel kin- who ' loved . the lull deer better than the poor - Christians , who lopped off the thumbs of deer-slayers , who destroyed villages and razed churches to enlarge his . deer forests . The country gentleman lets the clergyman see that his poor man s children are educated , j that his rich servants die not unlended . He uvthe hall is for from them as the clouds , « n « al > oufc as inaccessible . What matters to him if every turnip ' . on- tho Blazisaway property is . nourished with poacher ' s blood , if not a fluid on the property but has . been tho scene of a death-struggle . Tho Honourable Mr . Dii * y . and the B > hfc Honourable Mr . Dally must make a good bag lit the autumn battue , and their prowoss , let what will come ,, must bo recorded in the Morning Post . ¦ Let ii . i repeat our argument : wo do not deny that poaching is theft and should be punished ; but we do regret that landlords should allow game to increase to that baleful degree , that it w an unceasing and alnlost ineHi « tiblo temptation to ai poor and olton ignorant agricultural population , who , while tormented by solfwhrestriction and arbitrary restraint 3 , arc too often neglected by thenlandlords , who exact work from ' . thorn nfc insulliciont wage * , unit let them end their miserable life unpitied in a workhouse .
Our Future Constituents. Many Of Our Ren...
OUR FUTURE CONSTITUENTS . MANY of our renders doubtless remember tho opening sentence in which Johnson invites a very extensive section of mankind to " attend to tho history of Rassei , as , Prince of AbynHuui ) . " Hoping that thia advico may have been followed , wo now invite tho reader " to turn from JonNSO ^ r ' s imaginary prince to tho request h of a renl flesh and blood Abyssinian monarch , made to Major Harris , tho liead of tho English Embassy . " You must givo mo , " snicl lias Sahela Selas » i « , ' t \\ Q nioclicino which disarms venomous snake . * , aud that which turn * grey luiir black * * * ami , above all , tho medicine of tho seven colours which so sharpens tho intellect as to enable him who swallows enough of it to ncquiro ovory sorb of knowledge with tho slightest trouble ; furthermore , yon will bo \ cartful to r / iva my pooplo none rift ft is . " Wo give tho pus ^ o us a ; curiously intfvo aud undisguised cxpressum ot whut was formerly tho feeling of tho ruling- toward « the serving clhsa in Itngland , » a we could ' easily prove l > y a eitation from Hallam . Tho sefviuy classes c « n at any rate no longer coruplitin of nny dfliborato intention on tho pnrt of the trroiit mass of their social superiors to Uoop them in tho dark , Ihowjili tho oduuuiors \\\ thuir various kinds may wish tjioir pupils to vlow . questions , both political- nml roliyious , through epoctuclos fliylitly tingotl with their own piwUoulm-
opiu-¦ ons rather than to see truth througli the colourless and transparent ' gbss of simple fact . . ^ effect ofthis has been among the niore intelligent learners , that the blending . and mixture of various colours has produced a- medium colour ess light and winds blowing from opposing points of the compass have tended to keep the . ' edifice of the judgment upright ; however , it would be well if the same ends could be obtained : by a so . meAvha . fc honcster process , that is if political and religious writers could be induced to avoid alike concealment and misrepresentation . . llrtse remarks are made on the presumption , expressed in some of our former articles on this subiect that Government ought to proceed on an intelligent asser- . tioiv anil p-otoction of interests ; and that the demand tor education in voters is not a merely farcical exciiso . for giving the upper classes a clear field for a mere struggle of their own component parts for their , own special interests—landlords and cotton-lords , lawyers and churchmen , or what not . - We -ire -lad to express our opinion ia the words of-Guattax , who , though a liberal , was , be it . o ' uservecl , no -annual parliament and universal sulFrage " , against both ot which he warmly pro- - tesH though he observes , m words ever to be remembL-red , that ' " Politics should be tho study of all , in every free state ; a mystery , to the neople , thev become the trade of tne great : the political monopoKt ^ s a hardened jobber . " Wo would only . add-- not merely of the < r - r «» af but of the would-be great -ot the selfi . sh , who would . make . the ppop-lo the mere rounds of tlie ladder on which they ; are mounting to personal power , —of every ranting , agitator , w . no is concuved . tol ) e , as was said long ago , . . . " ¦ hia noise Tlie fittest for his country ' s choice . " This isthe great danger of the people as . Macaulay , another ol 4 eh- friend ^ or perhaps half friend * ,, has told , them : ¦ " rho altitude is inure interested for the most un . meaumg bauble . or the most insio-niiicant ; m /^ . than the most important principle It is , we are soriT t < , , av , still proved to be true that t f « e mass of tho o ^ er- ; orders still love personitication , like women . arid-children , and any man who has the opportunity 6 ? putting -himself on , a platform has ... ; an immense advantage ; they are captivated _ by the strong expressions wlreh such men never spare , and i . y their -boundless protessions ; nor does this bv any means apply to ; the lower classes only . A tew weeks a * 'o the ' Saturday Bedew ofiered a very good . ^ u . ^ estion to . the publishers , of a series of , popular aiid-well-causiderod biographies of the Great Men of Knglaud , We have oiten thoug ht we culd su' .-esta still more usefulscries—averyc :: eap phnn , and unvarmshea aecoui'lt " of important era ., such a * the Kebelhoii , the change of dynasty of IGSS , the circumstance * under which Magna Cliarta wah exacted from King JonN , a candid account of the 1 reuch Revolution , an abbreviation of De Loi ? ie , and . other siilnect * of the same kind . Readers would not fail ; the difficulty would be as to the writers Any man who might undertake this , should , be able to lay his . hand upon his heart and swear , solemnly to the truth , the- - whole truth , and nothing but the truth , —simple and unvarnished facts , with as few deductions as possible . Wlio would be lit lor such a ta . iv .. Certainly not a living Southky , certainly not an Alison , certai ! i . l . v iiotaMACAULAY ; a MACKINTOSH : \ vould _ do , who with acumiiu mind had gone through two phases ot opinion ; still be tor a ^ 'i , who had only , we believe , known on < v and was ta . r to the ba « -Ub ; i e , seekiiK' truth wherever he could . find it , more candid , it possible , than a Haixam , and most thoroughly liberal . We believe , and we are sorry to suy it , that nothing kcops newspapers honest newspapers which , in tho words ot Cuaubr . borrowed nearly word for word from his patron and admirer IJuhkl , me unfortunately " Something to all men , ami to some man nil , " but their dread of tho knowledge itt their readers . They give no name ; they too seldom give even n reference lor thoir iucls -No irresponsible power is to be tiuwtou ; let them court the l . gh , as well as pi-UDiimo to create it . Wo are no enemies , ol course , to a free press , or to anonymous writing , but wo are most anxious I iat the" newspaper prt-HS should Imvu its correctives us well u » tJ »^ powers which it assumes to displace , and some other , mode ot ipduci . i tf the fpnrk of truth than that which i » produced by njut urtl collision and contnaiiction—the concussion ot clouds , often tliomhoIvcs d ,, rk , which- ( jivca its birth to tho li ^ htn . ng , wlnchoto Bcorchuu whilst it illuminates . If the people—people who l « uo but an hour or two u day for reading—received and imbibed such instruction as that wo have boon hinting at , wo a ^ uld hoo » see whether they or many of their would-be superiors wuru tho iwuiy inti-llitront people of Englnml . It is all up with tho fnim . rofision policy ; lut m all do our utmost to let tho light flow in freely . Wo wish that soino of tho nobility and clerg . v who uudrrlnko to give popvihir lectures would consider this subject , nnd « iyo »» o people truth , rather than lot thorn slonl it by fraginonte . Ot Lhw lecturing Lord CAnr . iBM « was one of tho best and tho earliest examples j bub what wiw noble a » an examplo , will bo merely ndnjuloiw . ns ft tmiiBionl fiwhion , and admirable if it wore to puss from the tra si torinvHH of fashion to tho perumiionoo of cudtom , by g > v »« tf "'"I" «"" nothing but truth to tho people . The groutmonot our coDiuiy might tlius'iugurt honourably , their proper advantage * , ana yw corroborntion and a now Ioiibo of influence and power . It may bo read in Gidiion thnt tho Human Emperor Antonim- s wiih one of tho iirst ( probably tho ttrnt ) of guvornors who n o gratuitous loot urea to tho governed . They were on I «« lo ««; j >' ijind histod fbr throe days ; ho gave thorn , probably , tho bust < . i \\ mw ho knew . Pope Griiciouy the Fifth had ygumoA tho rospuoL ut tno peoulo bofovo ho was elected to tho pnpiiey by ijivintf iue « n » i » uul
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Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1860, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21041860/page/10/
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