The life and letters of William Cobbett in England & America, based upon hitherto unpublished family papers . union with Cobbett must, I shouldthink, disgust the fanatic and even the reaUy religiousCatholic. OConnell is a very clever man, but in somethings a very foolish and indiscreet one. Probably hetook up Cobbett (who is now engaged in proving thatthe Reformation was a great curse), without muchreflection, and having forgotten the bones. ^ It was,however, not until the Liberators visit to London inFebruary 1825 that the men met. I spent an hourwith Cobbett and was greatly pleased with him,
The life and letters of William Cobbett in England & America, based upon hitherto unpublished family papers . union with Cobbett must, I shouldthink, disgust the fanatic and even the reaUy religiousCatholic. OConnell is a very clever man, but in somethings a very foolish and indiscreet one. Probably hetook up Cobbett (who is now engaged in proving thatthe Reformation was a great curse), without muchreflection, and having forgotten the bones. ^ It was,however, not until the Liberators visit to London inFebruary 1825 that the men met. I spent an hourwith Cobbett and was greatly pleased with him, OConnellwrote to his wife. He is a bold, clear-headed feUow,and his views are distinct and Well-intentioned. ^ Themen feU out over the question of Catholic Emancipation,but by the time Cobbett went to Ireland the breach washealed. So soon as his visit was announced, OConnell,who was unable to come to Dublin, wrote to EdwardDwyer asking him to organise a public dinner in thecapital, at which Cobbett may receive the respectful ^ Parker, Sir Robert Peel, i. 336. ^ Correspondence 0/ Daniel OConnell, i. ?i6&- (^^-^^^i^T^-rr^^eJC I1A\)KL O an engraving by 11. Hull, njter a pnintiiig Iy /. Carriik PARLIAMENT AND DEATH 253 attentions of the sincere friends of civil and religiousliberty in Dublin. OConnell thought Cobbett one of the most extra-ordinary men that the world ever saw. Looking backupon Cobbetts humble beginnings, he, as he wrote toEdward Dwyer in September 1834, did not know whichmost to admire, the value of that strong mixtureof the democratic principle in British institutions whichhas allowed him to make such an advance, or the extra-ordinary and vigorous intellect which enabled him toovercome the many and numerous difficulties whichcounteracting aristocracy threw in his way, and tobecome one of the most powerful and useful men nowliving. OConnell, of course, was, like most Catholics, anadmirer of the History of the Protestant Reformation, buthis enthus
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