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The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Winter Campaigns. (search)
ical pretension to superior patriotism of the outs, who never failed to disclose their resrottenness as soon as they obtained power. Patriotism was the common trait of every disappointed individual and defeated party--"Patriots," once exclaimed Walpole, (himself by no means the most scrupulous of man kind,) in the British Parliament. "Patriots. Sir, why patriots spring up like mushrooms; I could raise fifty of them within four and twenty hours; I have raised many of them in night. It is but There was, also, a gradual advance in good manners in parliamentary discussions, though the freedom of language seems strange to those who are familiar with the decency and dignity of parliamentary debates it these times. Thus we are told that Walpole "wanted words to express the villainy of the late Frenchified ministry! Stanhope said "he wondered that men who were guilty of such enormous crimes (as the gentlemen opposite,) had still the audaciousness to appear in the public streets." Anoth