Personal Rights

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Excerpt from Personal Rights: Speeches of P. A. Taylor, Esq., Late M. P. For Leicester In these days of Liberal lip-service, when party is everything and ideas are nothing - when he who is foremost on the Treasury Bench is "Lord, Lord" to those who sit on the same side, be his measures what they may, the retirement of a man like Mr. P. A. Taylor from Parliamentary life is a calamity. At a time when Opportunism, long triumphant at the head of the Government, has so effectually taught the nation to accept the shadow for the substance and words for things, that constituencies select their representatives, not for their personal character or convictions, but even as the butchers choose the silly sheep at market by the well-known brands (L or C) upon their fleecy sides, and these representatives flock right and left with about as much individual initiative as sheep crowding into the accustomed fold - the withdrawal from the political field of one who for nearly a quarter of a century has openly despised party and defied Opportunism and given both Ministers and the public assurance of a Man, is a National loss. As the Leicester Daily Post (June 21, 1884), truly says: "There never was a question in Mr. Taylor's mind as to the side to be taken on any subject but the question of Justice, which he determined according to the best of his judgment, acting upon the conclusion at all risks." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.