It was essential that the corn-laws should be repealed; but by no means essential that this should be done by Sir Robert Peel.
It was a matter of indifference to us Englishmen who did the deed.

But to Sir Robert Peel it was a matter of great moment that he should do it.

He did it, and posterity will point at him as a politician without policy, as a statesman without a principle, as a worshipper at the altar of expediency, to whom neither vows sworn to friends, nor declarations made to his country, were in any way binding.

Had Sir Robert Peel lived, and did the people now resolutely desire that the Church of England should be abandoned, that Lords and Commons should bow the neck, that the Crown should fall, who can believe that Sir Robert Peel would not be ready to carry out their views?
Readers, it may be that to you such deeds as those are horrible even to be thought of or expressed; to me I own that they are so.

So also to Sir Robert Peel was Catholic Emancipation horrible, so was Reform of Parliament, so was the Corn Law Repeal.