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fit as that she should stay on with him, if there be no impediment? When she has got almost a Mother's place in the affections of the children, it seems cruel to turn her away. — Yet she cannot stay with comfort or propriety, when things have resumed their usual course, except as the second wife. "That she must not be," says the Law; "she must turn out, and a chance stranger must take her place".
If I were a Demagogue, wanting to rouse the passions of the working classes against the injustice of the rich man's legislation, I would not wish for a better topic. The Law may look equal, but the inequality from total difference of circumstances is very great indeed. If the matter were broached in an assembly of working men, of perfectly sober habits, and well-regulated minds, wishing as anxiously as Lords and Commons to do right before God and man, I have no notion that one hand in fifty would be held up for the Law as it is.
I have no wish to have my name figure in Parliament, — not because I dread publicity when good is to be done by it, but because I am quite too obscure a person for my name to give weight to any thing I say, before such an Assembly. If I can help the cause at all, it must be by my remarks having something of truth and reason in them.
- I am,
- Yours, very truly,
- J. H. Gurney.
- Yours, very truly,
