text:  The bad eminence popularly of men so devoid of all principle and integrity so strangely uncouth and assorted as the Daniel O'Connells the John M'Hales and the Feargus O'Connors; of men so unlearned in all principle political and economical--so wanting moreover in the presence of the higher order of moral sentiments as the Cobdens the Brights the Rory O'Mores the Aucklands and Sydney (he of the League) Smiths is among the worst symptoms of the diseased times upon which the country has fallen