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that had made the session of 1842 infamous in the annals of
our legislation? . . . Mr. Cobden’s speech is by no means
Wanswerghle, But Sir John Tyrrell assuredly wade no
Stberapt to answer it. Ho uttered some things not devoid
of shrewdness, but they bore as slight reference to the
fallacies on which Mr. Cobden traded, as they did to the f alse
doctrines of the Koran. It is not, we fear, by such men as
the present race of the parliamentary landowners that the
deadly progress of the League is to be arrested.”
Mr. Bright once said at a public meeting,’ that people had
talked much more than was pleasant to him about his friend
Cobden and himself, and he would tell them that in the
Council were many whose names were never before the
Public, and yot whe deserved the highest praise. He was
Sorry that it should for a moment be supposed, that they
"ho were more prominently before the public, and who were
but two or three, should be considered the most praiseworthy,
 Nor was he singular. Cobden took every opportunity
 quietly and modestly of saying the same thing, The
applause of multitudes never inflated him into a demagogue,
“it was truly observed, any more than the atmosphere of
Parliament and of London society ever depressed him into
®onventionality.! I cannot find a trace or & word in the
ost private correspondence, betraying on the part of any
Prominent actor in the League a symptom of potty or
'8uoble egotisa. They were 500 much in earnest. Never
OR a scene where the temptations to vanity were so many,
was vanity so entirely absent.
Cobden’s incessant activity, his dialectical skill, the
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had ao wero subject to great tempbations in London, il those he
bo een behind the scones little knew the perils and dangers they
80 through, It was very difficalt for a man, hosrever clothed jn the
ply of prineipls, to go through the ordeal of a London season, withou!
nt i dy con; of mail perforated from ons auarter or another.’ —Cobden,
“under.Lyne. January, 1843.

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