3. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM, 1831.-Lord Brougham.

My Lords, I do not disguise | the intense | solicitude which I feel for the event of this debate, because I know full well that the peace of the country is involved in the issue. I cannot look without dismay at the rejection of this measure of Parliamentary Refòrm. But, grievous as may be the consequences of a temporary defeat, témpo

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helm, any one could steer you through the troubles which surround

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you, without | refòrm. But our successors would take up the task in

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circumstances far less auspicious. Under them, you would be fain to grant a bill, compared with which, the one we now proffer you is

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moderate indeed. Hear the parable of the Sibyl, for it conveys a

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wise and wholesome mòral. She now appears at your gate, and offers you mildly the vólumes-the precious vólumes-of wisdom and peace. The price she asks is reasonable; to restore the fran

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call her back. Again she comes, but with diminished | treasures;

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mace which rests upon that woolsack! What may follow | your course of obstinacy, if persisted in, I cannot take upon me to pre1 fLO

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díct, nor do I wish to conjecture. But this I know full well; that, as sure as man is mòrtal, and to err is húman, justice | deferred | enhances the price | at which you must purchase safety and peace; —

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bandry, of sowing | injustice and reaping | rebellion.

But, among the awful considerations that now bow down my mind, there is one that stands preèminent above the rèst. You are

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the highest | judicature in the realm; you sit here as judges, and

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decide all causes, civil and criminal, without appeal. It is a judge's | first duty never to pronounce a sentence, in the most trifling case,

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without hearing. Will you make this the exception? Are you really

prepared to determine, but not to hear, the mighty cause, upon which

a nation's hopes and fears | háng? You are? Then beware of your

decision! Rouse | not, I beseech you, a peace-loving but a rèsolute

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country, as the faithful | servant of my sovereign, I counsel you to

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assist, with your uttermost èfforts, in preserving the peace, and upholdInstitution. Therefore, I pray and exhort

you not to reject | this measure. By all you hold most dear, by all

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the ties that bind every one of us to our common | order and our

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you,-yea, on my bended knees I supplicate you,-reject | not | this bill!

4. ON THE IRISH DISTURBANCE BILL. -- Daniel O'Connell.

I do not rise to fawn or cringe to this House; I do not rise to supplicate you to be merciful toward the nation to which I belong, - toward a nation which, though subject to England, yet is distinct from it. It is a distinct nation: it has been treated as such by this country, as may be proved by history, and by seven hundred years of tyranny. I call upon this House, as you value the liberty of England, not to allow the present nefarious bill to pass. In it are involved the liberties of England, the liberty of the Press, and of every other institution dear to Englishmen. Against the bill I protest, in the name of the Irish People, and in the face of Heaven. I treat with scorn the puny and pitiful assertion that grievances are not to be complained of, — that our redress is not to be agitated; for, in such cases, remonstrances cannot be too strong, agitation cannot be too violent, to show to the world with what injustice our fair claims are met, and under what tyranny the people suffer. The clause which does away with trial by jury, – what, in the name of Heaven, is it, if it is not the establishment of a revolutionary tribunal? It drives the judge from his bench; it does away with that which is more sacred than the Throne itself, — that for which your king reigns, your lords deliberate, your commons assemble. If ever I doubted, before, of the success of our agitation for repeal, this bill,this infamous bill,— the way in which it has been received by the House; the manner in which its opponents have been treated; the personalities to which they have been subjected; the yells with which one of them has this night been greeted, all these things dissipate my doubts, and tell me of its complete and early triumph. Do you think those yells will be forgotten? Do you suppose their echo will not reach the plains of my injured and insulted country; that they will not be whispered in her green valleys, and heard from her

lofty hills? Oh, they will be heard there!-yes, and they will not be forgotten. The youth of Ireland will bound with indignation, they will say, "We are eight millions, and you treat us thus, as though we were no more to your country than the isle of Guernsey or of Jersey!"

I have done my duty. I stand acquitted to my conscience and my country. I have opposed this measure throughout, and I now protest against it, as harsh, oppressive, uncalled for, unjust; as establishing an infamous precedent, by retaliating crime against crime; -as tyrannous, cruelly and vindictively tyrannous!

5. EMPLOYMENT OF INDIANS IN THE AMERICAN WAR.
Earl of Chatham.

MY LORDS,-Who is the mán that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the wár, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tómahawk and scalping-knife of the savage?— to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods?to delegate to the merciless Indian the defense of disputed rìghts, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren?

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on the principles of policy and necéssity, but also on those of mo

rality; "for it is perfectly allowable," says Lord Suffolk, "to use all

the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am

astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confèssed; to hear them avowed in this House, or in this country!

My Lords, I did not intend to encroach so much on your attèntion; but I cannot repress my indignation; — I feel myself impelled to speak. My Lords, we are called upon as members of this House, fRO SRO

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as men, as Christians, to protest against such horrible barbarity!

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That God and nature | have put into our hands! What ideas of

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lígion and humanity. Whát! to attribute the sacred sanction of

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God and nature to the massacres of the Indian | scalping-knife! SRO wtr C F to waist w C to s C w tr C to the cannibal savage, torturing, murdering, devouring, drinking

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of morálity, every feeling of humánity, every sentiment of honor!

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your lordships, to reverence | the dignity | of your ancestors, and to

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famous procedure | the indelible | stigma of the public | abhorrence.

6. CONSEQUENCES OF THE AMERICAN WAR.-Earl of Chatham.

This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is no time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot save us, in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne, in the language of Truth. We must, if possible, dispel the delusion and darkness. which envelop it, and display, in its full danger and genuine colors, the ruin which is brought to our doors. Can minis