arrived that could sing ii not arms and the man tools and the man that were now our what indeed are tools from the hammer and of to this pen we now write with but arms wherewith to do battle against without or within and in pieces not miserable fellow men but the arch enemy that makes us all miserable henceforth the only legitimate battle which as we granted is here altogether imperfectly sung scarcely a few notes thereof brought freely out nevertheless with indication with that it will be sung such is the purport and merit of the village it struggles towards a noble utterance which however it can find old is from the first speechless heard of rather than heard or seen at best mute motionless like a stone pillar of his own carving indeed to find fit utterance for such meaning as lies struggling here i a problem to which the highest poetic minds may long be content to accomplish only meanwhile our honest with no guide but the instinct of a clear natural talent has created and adjusted somewhat s miscellaneous writings not without vitality of union has avoided somewhat the road to which lay open enough his village for example though of an strain is not wholly not without touches of rugged � is like life itself with tears and toil with laughter and rude play such as sees it � in which sense that wondrous courtship of the sharp tempered oft green may pass questionable yet with a air of stained and so has not a picture indeed yet a sort of genial study or come together for him and may endure there after some which we have seen framed with and hung up in proud galleries have become rags and rubbish to one class of readers especially such books as these ought to be interesting � to the highest that is to say the richest class among our aristocracy there are men we trust there are many men who feel that they also are workmen born to toil ever in their great s eye faithfully with heart and head for those that with heart and hand do under the same great toil for them � who have even this noblest and hardest work set before them � to deliver out of that egyptian bondage to wretchedness and ignorance and sin the millions of whom this earnest witness and writer is here representative to such men his writing will be as a document which they will lovingly interpret what is dark and exasperated and in their humble brother they for themselves will and taking what is the real purport of his message and laying it earnestly to heart might an instructive relation and between high and low at length ground itself and more and more perfect itself to the unspeakable profit of all parties for if all parties are to love and help one another the first step towards this is that all thoroughly understand corn law one another to such rich men an message from the hearts of poor men from the heart of one poor man will be welcome to another class of our aristocracy again who unhappily feel rather that they are not workmen and profess not so much to bear any burden as to be themselves with utmost and if possible borne � such a phenomenon as this of the corn law with a and much else pointing the same way will be quite unwelcome indeed to the clearer sighted astonishing and alarming it that they find themselves as napoleon was wont to say in a new position � a position wonderful enough of extreme to which in the whole course of history there is perhaps but one case in some measure parallel the case alluded to stands recorded in the book of hers the case of the son of truly if we consider it there are few passages more notable and in their way than this of the truth speaker or as we should now say counsel and is forth as he has from of old quite done in the way of his not so much to curse the people of the lord as to earn for himself a comfortable penny by such means as are possible and expedient something it is hoped between cursing and blessing which shall not except in case of necessity be either a curse or a blessing or any thing so much as a nothing that will look like a something and bring wages in for the man is not far from it still less is he honest but above all things he is has been arid will be respectable did ever dare to fasten itself on the fair fame of in his whole walk and conversation has he not shown enough ever doing and speaking the thing that was decent with s miscellaneous writings proper spirit maintaining his so that friend and op must often compliment him and defy the world to say art thou a and now as he along in official comfort with brave official his heart filled with good things his head with schemes for the of vice and the cause of civil and religious liberty all over the world � consider what a and life clutching ice pang must have shot through the brain and of when his ass not only on the sudden stood stock still spur and but � began to talk and that in a reasonable manner did not his face and tremor occupy his joints for the thin crust of respectability has cracked asunder and a under him instead farewell a long farewell to all my greatness the spirit stirring vote ear piercing hear the big speech that makes ambition virtue soft palm first of and cheers that sphere music s occupation s gone � as for our stout corn law what can we say by way of but this � well done come again 