...Agitation is an old word with a new meaning. Sir Robert Peel, the first English leader who felt he was its tool, defined it to be the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mould its laws. O'Connell was the first to show and use its power, to lay down its principles, to analyze its elements, and mark out its metes and bounds. It is voluntary, public, and aboveboard,--no oath-bound secret socie...