have been called servility something of the manliness and
nobleness of freedom. A great Tory poet, whose eminent services
to the cause of monarchy had been ill requited by an ungrateful
Court, boasted that

"Loyalty is still the same,
Whether it win or lose the game;
True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shined upon."

Toryism has now changed its character. We have lived to see a
monster of a faction made up of the worst parts of the Cavalier
and the worst parts of the Roundhead. We have lived to see a
race of disloyal Tories. We have lived to see Tories giving
themselves the airs of those insolent pikemen who puffed out
their tobacco smoke in the face of Charles the First. We have
lived to see Tories who, because they are not allowed to grind
the people after the fashion of Strafford, turn round and revile
the Sovereign in the style of Hugh Peters. I say, therefore,
that, while the leader is still what he was eleven years ago,
when his moderation alienated his intemperate followers, his
followers are more intemperate than ever. It is my firm belief
that the majority of them desire the repeal of the Emancipation
Act. You say, no. But I will give reasons, and unanswerable
reasons, for what I say. How, if you really wish to maintain the
Emancipation Act, do you explain that clamour which you have
raised, and which has resounded through the whole kingdom, about
the three Popish Privy Councillors? You resent, as a calumny,
the imputation that you wish to repeal the Emancipation Act; and
yet you cry out that Church and State are in danger of ruin