The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-09

others of his party should find it better to rail at
the politics OF others than TO put forward their
own.
Day by day this party is losing its support IN The
country. 1t is paronised almost exclusively ny
those who, having no thought oil general sun!
still think that the Wings require a contlhual
pressure from behind to prevent their ceohg 100
mncb to the Tory and Conservative parties
The Radicals. like the Tories, feel that their
real sentiments are unpopular, and they nave Oh
ten refused to declare Them when called upon by
a motion of some imprudent member OF thelr
party. If. however, it was thought TO De poilcy
10 declare their principles and TO snow thelt
STRENGTH. we are convinced that fifty members oil
rbe nTesent House of Commons would vote in IA
vor of the general suffrage. In the Lords, such
motion, if it could be put would not have
single vote in its favor. Though to be sure, II is
impossible to say how Lord Brougham might
vote. ,-,,o
THE CHARTlSTS.
The ChartiStS, who were once the constituency
of the Radicals are now without representa-
tive in the House. These form me olher eX-
tremc link of the political chain. Like the To-
ries. they are a violent and vitupeTatiye party
Although they do not talk of the expulsion OF the
Sovereign, they talk of revolutions with all the
Familiarity of a Canterbury or Ashton Tory
Unfortunately, Also they are more distressed and
in earnest and less ''wine-waImed" andrhetorlcal
than the Tories, and they not only talk OF reVo-
buttons, but they strive to effect them
These men, holding the same principle as the
Radicals, have narrowed it TO specI4c Greco;
The five great points of Charlism are Universal
Suffrage-Paid members Of Parliament-the
Balot-Annual ParliamentS-and no Properly
Qualification. They Stipulate also that England
shall be divided into electoral divisions OF equal
population. and they think that when they have
thus carried out the Radical principle OF person
al representation, they will have an instrument
in their hands which must necessarily work out
the general happiness.
These, then are the five partieS-the Tories
the Conservatives-the Whigs-lhe Radicals;
and the ChartistS, who are about 10 contend
among themselves which shall govern England.
We have attempted to lay before our readersa
fair and impartial statement OF the position and
strength of each of these, and in doing so we
have abundantly exposed the falsehood OF The
common fippant declaration that the Wing par
ty is the weakest party in the state. Each of
these parties is weak in itself, because it cannot
resist combination of the others, but if each
stood alone in the House of Commons by ma
iority of sixty or seventy votes. Until it can be
proved that Sir Sobert Peel is identical with the
party which meets at Exeter Hall and and petit
lions for new penal laws for the Catholics it
must remain an irrefragabe fact that the Con-
Servatives are less in numbers than the Wings.
Such being the case, it is evident that the
Wings are the party which can govern the coun-
try with the least concession to either OF the ex-
IRENE and noxious parties of Tories or Radicals.
We do not conceive it possible that any reason
able Englishman can wish to see either ToTyism
or Radicalism in practical operation in England;
nor do we consider ii probable that any honora-
bic coalition can take place between the Wings
and the Conservatives-for coalitions, at the ex-
pense of principle, have never been neither re-
putable, or lasting. The obvious interest Of the
country, therefore, is that the Wings should re-
main in power so long as they remain the strong
est party.
Putting political bias altogether aside, and adj
believe that at this moment the Wings alone dis
cover that "disposition to preserve and ability
to improve" which, taken together, Burke has
declared to be his standard of a statesman.
Sir Robert Peel has, however, according to the
general rumor, agreed to lead the united Tory
and Conservative forces in one general attack
upon the present government Is this intended
merely as political exercise, or does he hope
for success2 If he does, he is either the most
guilty ambitious or the most contemplate
Of mankind. If he intends TO preserve
himself in his place-afer he las attained
;-by pandering to the fanaticism of the M
Niels, and rewardlng the ribald treasons of the
BradshawS-then the most guilty ambitious
If he calculates to hold his usurped seat upon
the patriotic forbearance of the men whom, with
The assistance of his rabble rout, he will have
oveIthrown-then the most contemplate
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