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    not a party ; the Radicals in Parliament are incapable of forming one . No body of men ever accomplished any thing considerable in public life without organized co-operation ; and these seem incapable , not merely of organized , but even of casual co-operation . The evil consequences of this incapacity display themselves most of all , in the case of those who aspire to be , and

    in some measure deserve to be , distinguished as the instructed and philosophical Radicals ; for they appear to be incapable , not only of acting in concert , but also of acting singly . There is always a lion in the path . One is too despairing ; he thinks no good is ever to be done : another is too fastidious ; he will not c mix himself up , ' ' allow himself to be confounded' with somebody or something : another is too timid , another too indolent , another too unenterprising . With one or two exceptions at

    most , none of them have sufficient strength ( there needs no little ) to stand alone : they will never be any thing but ciphers , till they are grouped together with a unit or units at their head ; yet they cannot , it would seem , endure the imputation of acting together . Not only there is no principle of attraction among them , there seems a principle of repulsion . They do not even verify the old story of John doing nothing and Tom helping him . They will not be helped to do nothing . Each man is immovably bent upon doing his nothing single-handed .

    The consequence ia , that the men who will neither lead nor be led , are passed by ; and those who do not wait to be led , become the real leaders . We have heard it spoken of in a tone of complaint , that Mr . Hume , or that Mr , CVConriell , hold themselves forth as the parliamentary leaders of the popular party in the nation . For our part , so long as Mr . Hume and Mr . O'Connell are the only persons who are never unprepared to stand up for the cause , in season and out of season , whatever may be thought of them

    by fine people , and to force discussions on all the great questions , whatever may be the unwillingness of the House , we hold these gentlemen to be the leaders of the Radicals in fact , whatever some who allow themselves to be called Radicals may say or wish to the contrary . And , although they may often execute the office in a manner which compels us to wish that the people had other leaders , or rather that those who are so good were still better , we make an immense distinction in our estimation between those

    who continually accomplish far more than any one thought there was reason to expect of them , and those who accomplish less . * Those who do not originate any thing , must consent to act with , and under , those who do , or to be nothing . There are members of the House in whose hands , far rather than in those of Mr . O'Connell , wo would gladly have seen such a question a * the Liberty of the Press : but we are well assured , from expe-* This was written before Mr . O'Connell ' s profligate declaration in favour of the pillage of the widow and the orphan .

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    174 Notei on the Newspapers .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/14/