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your not get a succession of notices in the papers similar t0
the (lobe last evening? Might not R. employ his pen in
that way? Tell him not to be too rhapsodical or eulogistic
in his descriptions, but to give from day to day a few facts
and scraps of information which would induce the papers t0
insert the articles as news. There should be a description
of the arrivals of the great trains filled with country Leaguers.
In the next League let as long a list as possible of the people
»f rank who have attended be given—this is very important.”
Their newspaper deserves a word. Its energy was a8
striking as the energy of their speakers. Its leading articles,
many of them written by Cobden and Bright themselves,
were broad and weighty statements of the newest aspect
of their case. Any unlucky phrase that fell from a monopolist
 was pounced upon and made the text of a vivacious
paragraph. No incautious admission from the other side
was ever allowed to escape, until all the most damaging
conclusions that could be drawn from it had been worked
out to the very uttermost. All the news of the day was
scanned with a vigilant eye, and no item that could be
turned into an argument or an illustration was left unimproved.
 This ingenuity and verve saved the paper from
the monotony of most journals of a single purpose. It8
pages were lighted up by reports of the speeches of Cobden,
Bright, and Fox. The pictures with which it abounds of
the condition of the common people, are more graphic than
the most brilliant compositions of mere literary history. It
Joes not affect us as the organ of a sect; though it preaches
from one text, it is always human and social. There were
Poor Men’s Songs, Anti-Corn-Law Hymns, and Anti-Bread-Tax
 Collects. Nor did the editor forget Byron’s famous lines
from the Age of Bronze, a thousand times declaimed in this
long war i=}

 To &, Wilson, Novamber, 1841,