Mr. O ' Connell claims a laurel leaf for having invented the
nickname of Tory. Radical. The invention itself is a leaf, but not of laurel, from that book of party fallacies which the honest politician only rends for warning, and not for imitation. Applied, as it has been, to some of the most clear-headed and well.principled Reformers, merely to discredit the unwelcome tiuths which they urged on the party in power, its use, too commonly, has been the dirty trick gi conieFous tergiversation. The invention merits, not a premium, but a penance. It was an endeavour to crush men for sticking to their principles when they saw those principles compromised by their professed patrons. The quarrel of those who have been called Tory. Radicals with the Whigs was simply this : they desired, and the Whigs refused, the popular rights which would have made the return of Tory deninittion an impossibility. We shall not be surprised if Mr. O'Connell lives to see palpable demonstration that there was more wisdom in their straightforward principle than in the sinuous policy of their revilers.— True Sun.
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