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Mr Goreli makes no distinctions: at one crush he suppresses and for ever all

free meetings of the people howsoever modified. Mr Goreli acts consistently –

the government his endeavours are employed to organize and support is a despotic

one: he will have no eventual faculty of resistance no possibility of resistance

to misrule be it ever so consummate no relief to misery from misrule be it ever

so excruciating: he will have no free communication of ideas on political

subjects he will have no instruction no excitation no concert between man and

man any where for any such purpose.

Mr Goreli acts consistently; consistently with his principles in regard to

government: whether with any that he avows I know not: assuredly with the

principles he acts upon: assuredly consistently with the attainment of the

object towards which this measure of his tends, the establishment of despotism:

principles directly the reverse /the direct reverse/ of those which the

Constitutional Code has set up, and to the giving effect to which the system of

representation ordained by it is directed.

Mr Goreli has not yet proposed a law abolishing the whole system of Election

meetings. He need not: should this proposed law of his be established and be

productive of its declaredly intended effect, they will be of no use to the

people of whom those meetings if held will be composed, and whose interests they

were intended to support and serve: in those meetings there will be neither

excitation nor instruction: and to the production of any good effect both are

necessary: at the meeting itself there will be no time for any thing like

adequate instruction: indeed by the Constitutional Code itself (Article | |) all

such use of the time appointed for Election is prohibited: at the time of such

meeting there can not be any such instruction: and it is Mr Goreli’s care that

there shall not be any at any other time.