This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...methods to new conditions, as Sir Robert Peel. It was due very largely to.his foresight and common sense that the Tory party in 1841 came back to power, only nine years after it appeared to have been for ever extinguished by the first Reform Bill. The very magnitude of that disaster had enabled Peel to broaden ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...methods to new conditions, as Sir Robert Peel. It was due very largely to.his foresight and common sense that the Tory party in 1841 came back to power, only nine years after it appeared to have been for ever extinguished by the first Reform Bill. The very magnitude of that disaster had enabled Peel to broaden the basis of the party by insisting that its mission thenceforth was to rally the newly enfranchised, as far as possible, to the support of our ancient institutions. His followers accepted the situation with an adaptability born of defeat, and enhanced by hope of future recovery; and the party which returned to power in 1841 had little in common with the "ignorant and obstinate faction" whose approaching overthrow Greville had, ten years previously, hailed with satisfaction. The newly styled Conservative party now dominated the situation; but, fortunately for its further usefulness, Peel dominated the party, thereby continuing the educational process which his malicious detractor, Disraeli, was subsequently to carry to unheard-of lengths. Peel's mental endowments were curiously characteristic of the sturdy Lancashire stock whence he sprang. The Peels of Peel Fold, near Bury, were an honoured family of the yeoman class; but with all the toughness of the farmer, the father of the statesman showed keen foresight and business capacity in mortgaging his estate so as to embark in the more profitable pursuit of calico-printing, then in the heyday of its early prosperity. This change from bucolic to mercantile pursuits curiously foreshadows the mental and political development of the son, who was brought by stress of circumstances to abandon nearly all the tenets of his early days. Beginning his official career as a colleague of the Liverpools and...
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