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power renders me accountable, to transmit uninjured to 

 my countrymen of a future age/ There is one passage 

 in this pamphlet which has considerable biographical 

 value, as proving that Miller had already conceived that 

 intense aversion for Radicalism which he continued 

 throughout life to cherish. Sincere and steady as he 

 was in his Whiggism, he called himself a Whig of 1688 

 rather than a Whig of 1789. ' There is a class of men/ 

 such is his deliverance on Radicalism in 1831, 

 ' which in the present day infests almost every civilized 

 country of Europe. Like the desolating locusts of the 

 East, the members of this class are terrible when gathered 

 into multitudes, though the individuals, singly con- 

 sidered, be tiny and contemptible as insects. Opposi- 

 tion, either implied or direct, is their peculiar vocation. 

 Though sometimes apparently united in aim, neither in 

 principle nor conduct have they anything in common 

 with that better tribe who are the friends and advocates 

 of rational liberty. There was a happy allusion made to 

 the two classes by a philosophic and honest statesman 

 in his late admirable defence of a popular measure. 

 He described that measure to be as a firmament which 

 would separate the pure waters above from the gross 

 and turbid pollution of the waters below. To the one 

 class we owe the Reformation, and every right and in- 

 stitution which is dear to us as people of Scotland. 

 From the other have proceeded many of those terrible 

 inflictions on mankind which the historian shudders to 

 relate. We trace the slime of those reptiles on almost 

 every dark page of the annals of modern Europe. They 

 have catered for that demon of Radicalism which has 

 prowled in the streets and lanes of our cities ; and 

 lighted the torch of that fiend of Incendiarism which so 

 lately stalked out into our fields. They are fast defacing 



