. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. e successive occasions, and held during a period ofthirteen years. But as I have good reason to believe that a candidaterecommended to your favor through local connections may ask your suf-frages, it becomes my very painful duty to announce to you on that groundalone my retirement from a position which has afforded me so mu
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. e successive occasions, and held during a period ofthirteen years. But as I have good reason to believe that a candidaterecommended to your favor through local connections may ask your suf-frages, it becomes my very painful duty to announce to you on that groundalone my retirement from a position which has afforded me so much ofhonor and of satisfaction. In the course of his address Mr. Gladstone explained his motives inaccepting office in a government avowedly in favor of removing the legisla-tion which was supposed to uphold the agricultural interest of avowed his belief that the new policy would prove a beneficial one toall classes of British subjects. He further declared that he had followed inthis instance not only his own conscience, but the public call, which nonemight patriotically disregard. However reasonable all this was, the change involved a temporary lossto Gladstone. No other constituencv could be immediatelv found to return THE FREE-TRADE TRANSFORMATION. 145. 146 LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. him to the House, and for the nonce he might be regarded as a statesmanwithout a vocation. He had now become, however, so pronounced in hisadvocacy of free trade, and his abihty and honesty were so much in evidence,that his influence was almost as great as ever in the brief interval betweenthe sessions of 1846 and 1847. In the meantime a natural disaster came on to influence most stronglythe affairs of men. The potato rot appeared in Ireland. The people wereabout to famish. As the law then stood the cereals so necessary for lifemight not be imported without paying such duties as greatly to aggravatethe price. England was in the attitude of starving Ireland by means ofher
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