Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- THE EMPIRE
- I COLONIAL EMANCIPATION
- II COLONIAL EMANCIPATION. ANSWER TO THE TIMES
- III COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
- IV COLONIAL EXPENDITURE
- V COLONIAL TRADE
- VI CANADA
- VII THE CANADIAN MILITIA BILL
- VIII THE DEBATES ON THE CANADIAN MILITIA BILL
- IX ENGLAND AND CANADA
- X NEW ZEALAND
- XI COLONIAL EMIGRATION
- XII MR. ADDERLEY ON CANADIAN AFFAIRS
- XIII GIBRALTAR
- XIV THE PROTECTORATE OF TURKEY
- XV THE IONIAN ISLANDS
- XVI THE CESSION OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS
- XVII THE CESSION OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS. (MR. D'ISRAELI)
- XVIII INDIA
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
II - COLONIAL EMANCIPATION. ANSWER TO THE TIMES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- THE EMPIRE
- I COLONIAL EMANCIPATION
- II COLONIAL EMANCIPATION. ANSWER TO THE TIMES
- III COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
- IV COLONIAL EXPENDITURE
- V COLONIAL TRADE
- VI CANADA
- VII THE CANADIAN MILITIA BILL
- VIII THE DEBATES ON THE CANADIAN MILITIA BILL
- IX ENGLAND AND CANADA
- X NEW ZEALAND
- XI COLONIAL EMIGRATION
- XII MR. ADDERLEY ON CANADIAN AFFAIRS
- XIII GIBRALTAR
- XIV THE PROTECTORATE OF TURKEY
- XV THE IONIAN ISLANDS
- XVI THE CESSION OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS
- XVII THE CESSION OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS. (MR. D'ISRAELI)
- XVIII INDIA
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
Summary
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY NEWS.”
Sir,—I have watched with interest, and I trust with an open mind, the debate to which my last letter to you on this subject has given rise in the press. It leads me to hope that the question has taken hold upon the public attention, and that the nation will exercise in this grave and urgent matter the deliberation and forecast which a part of the governing class, under the tuition of The Times, seems to have almost abjured. The leading journal has indeed waged war against “thinkers” for a quarter of a century, with no questionable success. The politicians over whose minds it has exercised an almost undisputed sway have, under its most skilful treatment, become “animals” of small “discourse,” “looking” neither “before” nor “after,” priding themselves on their “common sense,” and taking common sense to consist in eschewing thought, and exaggerating the casual notion or passion of the hour. Their perilous tampering with the tremendous question of Parliamentary Reform was the natural result of such a training. I am most willing to be called a “thinker,” or, if possible, worse names, if I can contribute even in the slightest degree towards inducing however small a section of the public to exercise forecast in politics, to study our position in the community of nations, its changes, and its necessities; to mark the ways of Providence, and subdue ambition to them; and to lay, by deliberate action on intelligible principles, the solid foundations of happiness and greatness.
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- The Empire: A Series of LettersPublished in 'The Daily News', 1862, 1863, pp. 19 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1863