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There is something so exciting, so full of a certain, or rather an uncertain, degree of popularity, in Radicalism, that it is particularly dangerous for young politicians to consider the point unless they distinguish most widely between moderate Radicals and Democrats. Let a king be dethroned for oppressing the people, and the heads of the populace will most likely be Radicals in the first onset of revolt, but when the love of power takes possession of the leaders they become Democrats under various names.

The Parliament men in England, and the Girondins in France, were the moderate Radicals, in the sense in which we understand the latter, Cromwell and Robespierre became the Democrats.

And thus, alas! with all or most things of terrestrial import, moderation is so soon borne down by excitement, ambition so soon

takes the place of philanthropy. Through the whole of our varied globe, revolutions which have at first, at least, the shadow of justice, lose at length all aim, save that thirst for opposition which throws a Babel-like confusion on the original intention.

It is in vain that man sets forth on his political pilgrimage with the intention of keeping from all party, he could not then be

politician, but moderation is the best guide and the surest road to honour. The Church, the Law, the Army, all convince us of this truth; and although Parliament might be compared to a vast mirror reflecting only one object-the people, the mirror will be obscured by specks which no hand can eradicate without ranging himself on some side or another, to enter into necessary arrangements for removing the obstacle. Philanthropy, apart from all party-feeling,

must eventually degenerate into a party, for Radicals do, in fact, profess philanthropy in its widest branch; but how selfishly perverted even the love of kindred and country may be, is too well known a fact to require discussing.

However, let us for argument sake, take the strongest point on record.

Napoleon was in the first onset a philanthropist. Regal authority had been set at nought in the person of Louis the Sixteenth -when lo! amongst the heated spirit around arose one seemingly free mind, ready to leave his Corsican home and take the French sufferers by the hand-amidst the conventional fury, that clear, discerning voice cried out "Peace." But not long satisfied with the office of Mediator, the Corporal became Consul, King, and lastly Emperor— Emperor of those realms his courage had made his

own-with magic genius. he turned the

storm to one focus-Self.

And still for a time might he continue to be called the philanthropist.

A tyrant he might be, because he was innately selfish, but how glorious a leader, how well-educated a man, how well-trained a soldier to the people who had despised Marat and been slaughtered by Robespierre. And glorious to the end of his existence Napoleon would have continued, had he thought of politics above the might of arms, had he remembered that the battle's roar is not the loudest voice to guide a nation, had Napoleon rather remained the Protector than the conqueror, his noble spirit would not have been bruised in the far off and solitary Island where the sleep of death overtook him.

Thy race may be extinct, oh, Napoleon! as far as the power of Mars extends, but thou

remained a living example, and thy prototypes are they who embark in a political cause to serve a nation and end by courting popularity instead. A Philanthropist, or Radical, in his first career, takes the human race for his subject, and stands himself like a sunbeam in a tempestuous cloud, pointing to where the glorious orb will assert his freedom. But a Radical, in his more selfish-grown designs, is a traitor who has won the confidence of the populace by seeming devotion to their cause; principle and honour have only been guides to show him the road to power. Tyranny and selfishness will lead the way to ruin. Greece and the seven-hilled kingdom owe their fall to the increasing selfishness of those who put on the deceptive mark of philanthropy.

"Oh, thou fair Greece! by Turkish hands profaned,

By Britons plunder'd, and by Moslems chain'd!"

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