 He was fully convinced that the country possessed , at the present moment , a legislature which answered all the good purposes of legislation , — and this to a greater degree than any legislature ever had answered , in any country whatever . He would go further , and say that the legislature and system of representation possessed the full and entire confidence of the country . [ ... ] He would go still further , and say , that if at the present moment he had imposed upon him the duty of forming a legislature for any country [ ... ] he did not mean to assert that he could form such a legislature as they possessed now , for the nature of man was incapable of reaching such excellence at once . [ ... ] [ A ] s long as he held any station in the government of the country , he should always feel it his duty to resist [ reform ] measures , when proposed by others . 
