Memoir of the Chisholm

194 CONDUCT IN PARLIAMENT.
they be, in my judgment, altogether wrong,
act with, and support them : because I know
from observation in Parliament, that taking
a line of one's own is tantamount to neutral-
izing one's self and one's influence and use-
fulness V
On the accession of Queen Victoria to the
Throne in June, 1837, a new Parliament of
course was summoned, and the Ohisholm
again offered himself to the notice of the elec-
tors of the County of Inverness in the follow-
ing address.
" Gentlemen, — The lamented death of our
beloved Sovereign will, of necessity, cause a
dissolution of Parliament, and an appeal to
the electors of the United Empire. With
what answer this appeal shall be met, is obvi-
ously, in the present crisis, a question of the
most solemn importance.
" In again offering myself for your suffrages
as your representative in Parliament, I pre-
sume, with the most profound respect, to urge
upon you the peculiarly sacred duty which now
devolves upon us, and to call upon you to
1 Inverness Herald, August 3rd, 1 837.