With folded arms, and looks which are What they like, that let them do." Had such advice been given and taken, and that multitude, arm in arm and in perfect silence, marched on, they would have passed the bridges without one blow having been stricken. But Chartism has no such man of genius. Neither has Whiggism nor Toryism. The country has one man of talent-a Sir Robert Peel-unfettered by Party, unsubdued by the Aristocracy, and born of the People, to whom the United Kingdom now looks with hope, as to one capable of being taught by experience, and not liable to be tempted by interest out of any course that he may have learned to be right or expedient. To conclude :-In future, let both the speculative Politician and the practical Statesman avoid two prevalent mistakes :-first, that of legislating for Wealth instead of for Man; secondly, that of legislating for Gold, instead of true Wealth. Gold! Gold! the grossest form of Mammon-worship, has lately been the world's idolatry. Away with that! Let, at length, the pure, undefiled religion of the heart be the only faith acknowledged-its only formulæ, the Happiness of Man, the Providence of God. σε Ούτω θεων και ανθρωπων θείων και ευδαιμονων βιος, απαλλαγη των άλλων των τηδε, βιος ανηδονος των τηδε, ΦΥΓΗ ΜΟΝΟΥ ΠΡΟΣ MONON." Elysium, May 27, 1848. THE END. London Printed by W. CLOWES and SONS, Stamford-street. |