42 ULTRA RADICALISM. 



appeal to them (on political questions of grave importance, and at 

 least some perplexity,) whether any opinion but their own ought to 

 be listened to ; and whether they do not deem dissentients villains, 

 and are not prepared to carry the speaker's propositions into effect at 

 all hazards. 



Amongst Ultra Radicals are to be found no philosophers, no unpre- 

 judiced men of intellectual power. The late idol of the party, Jere- 

 my Bentham, though possessed of commanding talents for analysis, 

 arrangement, classification, combination, and doubtless a conscien- 

 tious, and, in many respects, an amicable man, was too full of prejudi- 

 ces to take high grade in moral or political philosophy. There are 

 though, in this Party, men of indisputably high endowments, short 

 of a genuine and consistent philosophy. As a dialectician and wit. 

 the Examiner is, perhaps, unrivalled ; but he has not the patience 

 requisite for investigation, nor the temper to refrain from extravagant 

 bitterness, and sweeping condemnations. There is sufficient evidence 

 in his writings of a generous and disinterested devotion to the Poor 

 Man's cause ; but he is utterly unable to decide, _with impartiality, 

 between the upper and lower ranks. He would rather let a mob de- 

 stroy a million's worth of property, than excuse a troop of dragoons, 

 under command of a gentleman, for charging a mob to prevent such 

 loss. In fact, though evidently a well intentioned man, he is a most 

 heady and dangerous politician ; and, could he have his own way, 

 would do more mischief, by over exciting the people, than could be 

 repaired in a very long subsequent experience. The Examiner would 

 tell you, (and almost argue you out of your senses in support of his 

 assertion,) that he has never deserved such charges as we have made 

 against him ; that he has always maintained the propriety of order 

 and subordination, &c. &c. So indeed he has, here and there, con- 

 descended to do obiter. But this order and subordination are, 

 throughout his pages, supposed to be posterior to a general break-up 

 and pell-mell conflict in behalf of the workies ; and it needs but 

 little penetration, therefore, to discern, that for such gracious conde- 

 scension to our orderly prepossessions, we do not owe this writer 

 much gratitude or consideration, seeing we are not very likely to be- 

 nefit by it. 



As one instance of the Examiner's Ultra Radicalism, we recollect 

 he once objected to the establishment of a National Guard, to protect 

 lives and property, till he had also institutions worth preserving, for 

 fear the protection should be extended to our existing institutions ! 



As another instance we quote the following comment of the True 

 Sun on Attwood of Birmingham, the hero of reform, copied into the 

 Examiner of November llth. 



et This gentleman is one of the bubbles that are sure to be blown 

 into a little brief existence by a great and imminent crisis, lie is 

 one of those who would never make their way to renown through the 

 ordinary crannies of the times, and who require a convulsion to 

 throw them out of the crater. He is the child of eruption, the hot 

 cinder of an hour. Mr. Attwood has made his little fire felt far and 

 wide, and is now sadly afraid of going out altogether. He had con- 

 trived to erect himself upon the throne of all the Unions, to establish 



