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 350 History of the Radical Party in Parliament. [1841-1846. monopolist, who, from less honourable motives, clamours for protection because it conduces to his own individual benefit. But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes re- membered with expressions of good-will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour, and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened with a sense of injustice." As was fitting, the last few words which expressed the national gratitude to Peel were delivered by Joseph Hume, the veteran Radical, who in days gone by had led the forlorn hope against the fortress which had now fallen, and vindicated the principles of freedom which were now triumphant.