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306 dashing against his enemies with the vigor of youth, leading the common people of England whom he has raised to a position and power they have never known till now; urging them to make the first use of that power to undo the wrongs of centuries in Ireland; offering to the men who have just dealt him the severest blow the justice that they claim — this man may not extort from the aristocrats of Europe the approbation he deserves, but Americans and democrats, believers in the people and friends of the people everywhere, cannot but recognize in him at once the noblest and greatest statesman of his time.