The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-22 00:00:00

SANDOZ. MONDAY. AtileUlr 21.

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praline hada; ea Ide re-appearanes in his proper
plass Z. COBDIN wee told by a ssrdo■ie
and. we Walt, shartaighted, friend in America:
that be sad Ids associates in 1842 had committed a
capital aver when they set about getting cheap
bread for the people before they had won their
franchisee kit dam ; now they are hungry no longer,
he hinted, you will not be able to get up agitation
enough to extort the °anemias of electoral rights.
The history of American liberty is the best of answers
to this shallow and sceptical notion. The
men of 1774 were is excellent cue whoa

they turned out against the might of the empire
to aunt one single right. Physically, they
were well off and competed. Pauperism and public
debt were alike unknown ; the fresh soil yielded its
increase far beyond the wants of the immunity ;
every mans labour brought readily its fall worth ;
and save an oecesional raid of the Red Indians on
the border lands of colonisation, men bad nothing
to make than afraid. On the other band political
privileges were comparatively limited, were re-
strained in the majority of the Buten within
narrow bounds. Some progress towards elec-
toral liberalism had indeed been mad* in Mss-
aschueetts and Rhode Island. Bat the thing we
hear talked of No universal suffrage no more existed
in America eighty years ego than it exists in Eng-
land at the present day.:Yet it wan a commu-
nity physically wanting for nothing but poli-
tically lacking much, that showed the greatest
courage, unanimity, and perseverance is exacting
from their min-enlers what they felt to be Mir
right. And se It will be here.
The analogy of the struggle against the Olen
Laws, though fall of suggestion and encouragemest
does not in all respects apply. It must be take•
with a distinction. Free Trade we a philorophie
theory, which it was hard to bring home to men's
minds, except by the sharp logic of privation.
When Lancashire's mills were working only,
half time, their owners began to study
political economy u they never had done
before ; and when they found oat what stood in the
way of large orders they invested their thousands
in the political machinery of the League. And when
the tradesmen in every city and town found business
was growing worse and profits becoming smaller year
after year, they put on their angry hats, swore they
would stand it no longer, and polled at elections for
friends of Messre.,Contitx and BRIGHT, whom they
would have thought of as their representatives
otherwise. Thus was Free Trade carried.
With the Elective Franchise and the Ballot the
case differs widely. Nobody who is honest, and who
would do by his neighbour what he would have his
neighbour do by him in such matters, requires to
read books, cast up sums in statistics, weigh aver-
ages, or hear economic lectures, to be convinced that
the present state of things regarding the handily@
and mode of voting is a fraudulent and
corrupt monopoly, kept up against the sense
and will of the nation ►y a particular
class, who have thriven, are thriving. and will
continua to thrive upon it as long se they are suf-
fered to do so. The question is not whether the
out4wry of the industry and intelligence of the
g bulk of the community is just and wise ; every
me knows the contrr 7. The question is, when
shall we take it in hand and get rid of It, and bow
is it to be time ? We must say that, in oar opinion,
foe this tough job it is much batter to have mil-
lions of sturdy remonstrants who are in no plight
to be bullied by their employers when they happen
to disagree with them about politics, and who are
not liable to be chilled in their resolves over night
by the begat:hie g looks of a pining wife or the fretful
arise of • hungry child. It is a sad and an serfel
thing to have to re-adjust the compass of the
Bute altar the threaten 1g moan of sharratimals
storm has begun to be beard. With the
true spirit of • statesman, Mr. COBDIM
warns oar oligarch, of all clans and cliques to set
about getting this inevitable work does while the
waters ue calm and the surrounding atmosphere
tranquil. None can tell bow soon these propitious
circumstances may pass away. On those who have
ears to bear, his wive and warning words will not be
lost. There is nothing of the fanatic or the empiric
about him.

Beyond comparison the most triumphant tribune
of the people whom England ban had in MS day, he
ham proved by thirteen years' abstinence tram all
that savored of popular agitation how foreign to
his nature are the:arta or ambition of a demagogue.
And sow, when he re-appean at last epos the
scene. it is not Ake a man chafing at repose, or
sookieg excitement, bat rather aa one who of old
anderstaeds the danger of too prolonged delay,
anti the risk of the popular helm getting
into lath hand•, if it be not once mon
grasped by awn like hint. Let us hope the truth be
has, aconediog to his wont, told with all plainness of
'lmmo% speech, wall not be lost on either the many
Or the few. Adturing to the good old nun of
Haseebold Suffrage as the least that the people ought
to teak fee, he offers to accept the portion of the
debt doe on Pistachios account, even though it may
be moiseary to bare a separate bill and receipt teethe
Ballot. Ret there is no symptom of factions 'steeds.,
Cr willingness to compromise either claim. Both
are indispensable to any satisfactory settlement of
the great question of Reform; sad Mr. COBDEN
clearly intimates that hie confidence and rapport
will be given to no Minister who sea himself against
the deliberate and jest densands of the people.

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