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CHAPTER VI - 1818, 1819

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

Thomas Fowell Buxton
Edited by
Charles Buxton
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In the spring of 1818, a dissolution of Parliament took place, and Mr. Buxton now offered himself as a candidate for Weymouth. While upon his canvass, he thus writes from Bellfield:—

“I am easy in my mind, leaving the event to Him who knows whether the busy engagements of a public life will draw me nearer to, or separate me further from Him; and who also knows whether He chooses me as an instrument of good; and if He does, He will bring the means used to a successful issue. * * * * * I have passed a very leisure time since I came here. The Bible and Hudibras have been my chief subjects of study.”

Elections at this time presented very different scenes from what they now afford; and, very frequently, the voters were anxious to decide the matter, as Irish counsel used to decide their causes, by fighting it out. This was so much the case at Weymouth, that Mr. Buxton was obliged to entreat his friends to use moderation towards their opponents. “Beat them,” said he, “in vigour, beat them in the generous exercise of high principle, beat them in disdain of corruption, and the display of pure integrity; but do not beat them with bludgeons.”

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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet
With Selections from his Correspondence
 , pp. 76 - 92
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1848

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