Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852Various
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
"Mr Adam Hodgson said that he was present there to a great extent as
a Free-Trader, but that he would throw Free Trade and everything
else to the winds when the Constitution of the country was
endangered. Referring to the recent meeting at Lord John Russell's,
Mr Hodgson said that he gathered, from what there took place, that
Lord John Russell was prepared to bid higher now, and to give a more
indefinite extension to that franchise which many of them thought
had been already carried quite far enough. (Loud cheers.) This was
one reason why he deemed the present a most important crisis. The
fundamental principles of our Constitution were, however, safe in
the keeping of Lord Derby. What, again, he asked, was Free Trade,
compared with a resolute determination that Protestant England
should be Protestant England still?--(Loud cheers, and the 'Kentish
fire;')--and that, whether she carried on her traffic under what was
called a restrictive or a free system, she should carry to the
remotest nations of the world, with whom she had intercourse, her
Scriptural principles and attachments?
"Many other speeches were delivered, and the requisition to Mr
Mackenzie and Mr Turner was most heartily and most unanimously
agreed to; after which three cheers were given for Lord Derby, three
cheers for the Queen, and three for the Church."
This is in the right spirit; and we trust that the example so well set
by Liverpool will be followed generally throughout the country.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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