. 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. y. The author atthe outset declared that he had notvisited Naples with the consciousintention or design of becoming a critic or censor with respect to theabuses of the government. He was not there to promote the opinions orsentiments of Great Britain ; but the conditions which he had found obligedhim, from a deep sense of d
. 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. y. The author atthe outset declared that he had notvisited Naples with the consciousintention or design of becoming a critic or censor with respect to theabuses of the government. He was not there to promote the opinions orsentiments of Great Britain ; but the conditions which he had found obligedhim, from a deep sense of duty, to denounce to his countrymen and theworld the dreadful, almost unnamable, abuses and crimes which prevailedin the administration of the Neapolitan government. He next pointed out the principal reasons which impelled him to writeand publish his communications. In the first place, the present practicesof the government of Naples with respect to political offenders he hadfound to be an outrage on religion, civilization, humanity, and decency. Inthe next place, the practices of the government in Naples were producingb) the law of contraries a reign of anarchy, democratic turbulence, republi-canism, not accordant with the real sentiments ol the people. In the third. EARL OF ABERDEEN. lS2 LIFE AND TIMES (>K WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. place, the writer, being a member of the Conservative party in England(observe that in 1851 Gladstone still called himself a Conservative), mustunconsciously sympathize with the established governments of Europe,rather than with those who assailed those governments ; and for this reasonhe must do what he could do to prevent the overthrow of the Europeangovernments by revolts against them on account of their abusive characters. Mr. Gladstone declared that he was not passing judgment on theadministration of the kings government as to its imperfections and occa-sional or incidental corruptions and cruelties; but he attacked it becauseof its constitution
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