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NOTES ON THE NEWSPAPERS.
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, iV ^ AuvBk . Cf ^ h ^ it ' - ^ Tb e H ouse of Commons has killed Cobbett . Q& 4 tafo \ afa hours , and long speeches , which he could neither st # p , endure , nor overbear , have proved too much for the sturd y o \ 4 rm ^ - tfce is gone . His influence died aw ay before him , it ajpjuost seems as * L )> is memory were to follow . He is little ed for so
rpj ^ s a man extraordinary . Jphe quietness with which the world loses him , is ascribed to hU jipt having been linked with any of our great parties . The Ss ^ Lu tion ig as unt ru e as the mor ^ l would be pernicious . It should rather have been sa , id that he had not linked his name with any great principle ; if he had , his power would have created a party of his own . His comparatively few disciples , at the last , seem to
have been striqtly personal ones . They followed William Cobbett wj ^ fyersoever he mi g ht lead . They swore by the Register ; 90 M ^ outd millions , had it been the consistent vehicle of sound princopies . . . Cob )> ett was no philosopher . He has been very absurdly compared with Paine , whom he excelled as much in fertility of gppular t illustration , as he fell short of him in the faculty of generalizing , and in the condensed yet imaginative expression of abstract principles . Paine ' s merits as a writer are scarcely yet
appreciated ; those of Cobbett render themselves felt instantly . Cobbett was no martyr . His popular influence never recovered his flight to America in 1817 . He might be perfectly justified , by the measures which the Government had in contem * pjjation , and the probable direction of its new and atrocious powers against him ; but his departure gave a sudden chill to thQse popular feelings , which he had himself so strongly excited ,
and tn , e effect was never reversed . As an advocate Cobbett never had a superior , upon paper at least ; nor could there be a more formidable enemy . The only deduction from his importance in either capacity was the pro $ - p ^ pt of another of those changes which so frequently occurred in h > ngu , The immense accumulation of facts in his memory , the re ^ oineap with which he produced the m , the tact with which he
selected them , the clinching force and humour with which he tpm them , the hard $ tones ( nicknames and olse ) with which he pelted all who stood in the way , his wholesome , racy , stinging EngU # h , and his identification with the masses for whom he wrpte , all made him a champion whom one would have devoutly 4 fttire <} fthould be alwaye on the right side .
A-iyl Cobbett was self-taupht . It should never be forgotten t ]) j ^ ^ 11 bift Ynriou » information , all his great powers , were wlfacauvred under the most formidable cfifficuU lWr The energy w % k W ^ Hft ffQW the , rftok * tp Pwli&ww V wxl which might
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 486, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/50/
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