He has not performed his promise of a comparison of constitutions.

He started the controversy, he gave the challenge, and has fled from it; and he is now a case in point with his own opinion that "the age of chivalry is gone!" The title, as well as the substance of his last work, his "Appeal," is his condemnation.

Principles must stand on their own merits, and if they are good they certainly will.

To put them under the shelter of other men's authority, as Mr.Burke has done, serves to bring them into suspicion.

Mr.Burke is not very fond of dividing his honours, but in this case he is artfully dividing the disgrace.
But who are those to whom Mr.Burke has made his appeal?
A set of childish thinkers, and half-way politicians born in the last century, men who went no farther with any principle than as it suited their purposes as a party; the nation was always left out of the question; and this has been the character of every party from that day to this.
The nation sees nothing of such works, or such politics, worthy its attention.