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The Tamworth Manifesto of 1834 was an attempt to construct a / party without principles; its basis therefore was necessarily / Latitudinarianism; and its inevitable consequence has been Political / Infidelity.
At an epoch of political perplexity and social alarm, the confederation / was convenient, and was calculated by aggregation to encourage the timid / and confused. But when the perturbation was a little subsided, and / men began to inquire why they were banded together, the difficulty of / defining their purpose proved that the league, however respectable, was / not a party. The leaders indeed might profit by their eminent position / to obtain power for their individual gratification, but it was / impossible to secure their followers that which, after all, must be the / great recompense of a political party, the putting in practice of their / opinions; for they had none.