text:  For without implying that we could conscientiously make use of every argument here put into our hands we may be allowed to say as the lawyers do in Westminster Hail _if this be so_ then it follows that we of the retrograde or as we may fairly style ourselves in England--seeing this country has not progressed so rapidly as France--we of the stationary party are fully justified in maintaining our position unsatisfactory though it may be till some better and more definite system has been revealed to us than any which has yet made its advent in the political world