Joseph Hume, the People's M.P.American Philosophical Society, 1985 - 172 pages When Scotsman Joseph Hume died in 1855 his contemporaries assumed he would be remembered as one of the most important politicians of his time. He was a champion of free-trade principles & radical reform. Though Hume never held office, he was in the forefront of nearly every major reform endeavor in the first half of the 19th century. He rose to popularity on the basis of his attack on government spending. Like most other free traders, Hume believed that no government could be satisfactory until it recognized the full measure of citizen freedom, whether that involved economic liberty, civil liberty, or religious liberty. Bibliography. |
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Page 116 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 21 - We divided on every item of every estimate — we were glued to these seats. The evening sun went down upon us in this hostile array, and when he rose in the morning he shone upon our undiminished ranks. If an Opposition despised hunger and thirst and watchfulness for conscience...
Page 89 - I will have nothing more to do with Brougham. I need not state to you the reasons of this determination. They reduce themselves readily under two heads — viz. his whole character, and his whole conduct. I will have nothing to do with Durham. For obvious reasons I forbear to state to you my reasons for this decision ; nor need I account for my third peremptory exclusion, which is O'Connell.
Page 107 - ... public education, those for the appropriation clause, those for municipal institutions in Ireland, those for yielding to Canada a more democratic form of government than at present exists there, should one and all enter the new session with this conviction thoroughly impressed upon their minds, that there is not one of these questions, no, not one, which is not secondary to the great object of maintaining Lord Melbourne's Cabinet, as the great agent of future improvement, free from every species...
Page 95 - It will be the best club in town, and the effect will be to break up the Whig party by joining the best of them to the Radicals, and the club will be the political centre of the Empire, and augment our power immensely.
Page 93 - ... good one ; but recollect that this was not the question, never was made the question by me. The question was, Ought Ministers to have put up with the kicking the Lords bestowed upon them ? I say no ; the time was as critical as propitious for them, and they ought to have turned upon their assailants. The Lords will not be reformed, not they, but it is good to make every one see that they must either be reformed or abolished, that, whenever the time comes, the abolition, cost what it may, may...
Page 38 - ... Committee, for me to) revise. After some very serious consideration, I wrote as follows : — " ' February 7, 1 824. " ' I am decidedly of opinion that you should take in the Combination Laws, and also that you should at once take Peter Moore into the Committee. Moore is not a man to be put aside...
Page 35 - ... Decline of Ricardian Economics in England," originally published as a reply to Checkland in Economica, ns 17 (1950), but rewritten and published in Economics and Ideology and Other Essays (London, 1967), pp. 51-74; and by Barry J. Gordon, Non-Ricardian Political Economy: Five Neglected Contributions. See also Frank W. Fetter, "The Rise and Decline of Ricardian Economics," History of Political Economy 1 (1969): 67-84.
Page 133 - June 25 ; but on the same night the Ministers were defeated in the House of Commons on the second reading of the Irish Coercion Bill by a majority of 292 to 219. Sir Robert Peel announced to the House on June 29 that he had resigned office, and that Lord John Russell had undertaken to form a new Administration.
Page 107 - All parties," says the writer, understood to be 'official, " those for the ballot, those for extended suffrage, those for the abolition of church-rates, those for grand plans of public education, those for the appropriation clause, those for municipal institutions in Ireland, those for yielding to Canada a more democratic form of government than at present exists there, should one and all enter the new session with this conviction thoroughly...