. The life of John Bright. Mr. BRIGHT OFFERS TO GIVE SATISFACTION TO THE LIBERAL PARTY Punch, Dec. 18th, 1858 John Brights speeches that winter were disconcerting to Lord John Russell; andeven Cobden, behind the table, hardly knows what to think of WHO WILL ROUSE HIM? Punch, March, 12th, 1859 John Bright, Disraeli, and Lord John Russell trying to interest the BritishLion in their rival schemes of reform. Bright never wore the eye glass or the Quaker hat attributed to him atthis period by Mr. Punch. 1858] THE LORDLY FOREIGN OFFICE 277 preference for leisurely prepared speeches, which sta
. The life of John Bright. Mr. BRIGHT OFFERS TO GIVE SATISFACTION TO THE LIBERAL PARTY Punch, Dec. 18th, 1858 John Brights speeches that winter were disconcerting to Lord John Russell; andeven Cobden, behind the table, hardly knows what to think of WHO WILL ROUSE HIM? Punch, March, 12th, 1859 John Bright, Disraeli, and Lord John Russell trying to interest the BritishLion in their rival schemes of reform. Bright never wore the eye glass or the Quaker hat attributed to him atthis period by Mr. Punch. 1858] THE LORDLY FOREIGN OFFICE 277 preference for leisurely prepared speeches, which stand thetests of literature as well as those of oratory. At the sametime his immunity from the cares of office, and of party leader-ship, gave him that leisure without which art can scarcely reachperfection, and that licence to utter the thought that waswithin him which gave to his words an intellectual freedom anda moral force, necessarily rare among politicians bound by theconvenience of their party and the opinions of their fellow-countrymen. One passage from the speech that he made at Glasgow inDecember 1858, two months after the opening of the campaignat Birmingham, represents his double message of Peace andDemocracy with a singular force : Mr.
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