Excerpt from The Westminster Review, Vol. 13: April-July 1830 In proceeding to prove the utility of theiiallot, this uncomfort able feeling intrudes itself, -that the task is useless. The evidence is so clear and incontestible, that it seems a loss of time to put it in words. The same considerations, one imagines, must occur to every other mind, and strike it with similar conviction. Another feeling is produced, b the arguments of those who assume the part of enemies of tge ballot. What they say has not the countenance, the colour, not one of the marks, of bona fide reasons; such grounds as a man rests upon for the truth of an Opinion really held. All their allegations bear upon them the bread a pearance of mere pretexts; the sham pleas, which are invente and set up, as often as men are summoned to defend Opinions, which they have ado ted and are determined to maintain, from other considerations t an those of their truth, or falsehood. 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.