The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-12 00:00:00

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WITII WHICH
THE " TRUE SUN " IS NOW
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LONDON :
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1839.

We are glad to perceive by an article which we
copy from the Glasgow Argus, that we have misap-
prehended our Contemporary, who did not mean by
enforcing his own judicious plan of agitation against
the Corn-laws to discountenance other kinds of agita-
tion till his plan is brought into operation. Accord-
ing to our view, the present agitation by meetings,
lectures, &c., ought to be incessant, in order to gain
the great point of defeating the landlords on first
mooting the question in Parliament. Our Con-
temporary, and the manufacturers generally, need
not be reminded that when the Orders in Coun-
cil were mooted in Parliament, there was no great op-
posing interest concerned. The landlords were quies-
cent. All the trade of the empire was on one side.
A great grievance inflicted by an exertion of the
prerogative was to be redressed—not an Act of the
legislature to be undone ; and before they can be
heard at the bar of Parliament on such a question, the
landed interest constituting a majority of Parliament,
must be defeated. Though we most cordially support
Mr. WEIR'S plan, and think the manufacturers cannot
by large subscriptions give a too earnest proof of their
zeal and determination, still we can only hope for
final success, by arousing the indignant moral feelings
of the community against those, whom Mr. J. C.
DYER called at the Manchester meeting on Thursday
" Insolent Lords who live like vampires on the
people." We would not cool the zeal of our Con-
temporary and the manufacturers, but excite it, by
reminding them of the difficulties of their task ; at the
same time we are bound to say, now that they have
fairly embarked in this holy cause, that their utmost
exertions will be required to secure success.
In another part of our Paper, for example, is a re-
port of an attempted meeting of the Ward of Bishops-
gate, to procure the Repeal of the Corn-laws, which
appears to have been a failure. It may be appre-
hended that the West India Monopolists, as well as
the monied classes, who have mortgages on land, and
an immense number of persons connected with the
landlords, by interest or relationship, or fearful of a ge-
neral depreciation in the value of property, by lowering
the price of corn, together with all the tithe-owners
and all the farmers who have leases, or who take their
opinions, like their land, from the insolent vampire
Lords, will rally round the landed interest, and_sup-
ports its iniquity. Our Contemporary, the Chronicle,
we are afraid, underrates the power and the connections
of the 32,000 persons whom it describes as the land-
owners, and by underrating them, may cause us to be
defeated, by promising us too easy a victory. It is also,
we are afraid, in error as to the people being ready to
second an appeal to them on this subject. The lead.
ers of the Chartists have all discountenanced Corn•
law agitation, and have declared, like Mr. PURDIE at
Glasgow, that they will oppose it unless it be pre-
ceeded by resolutions in favour of Universal Suffrage.
We regret this very much ; we did our best from
the first to make it otherwise, and if we
have not succeeded, it has been mainly owing
to the bad feeling which we observe with much
sorrow exists between the master manufacturers and
their men, and which has by no means been lessened
by the late ill-timed proceedings against Mr. STE..
P E Ns. They have made themselves, for many years,
as
was stated by the Chronicle on Thursday, the
ThEy " have
tax-
gatherers
of the landlords. wrung from
the pale-faced mechanic," regardless of him, the means
of paying the landlord's iniquitous rent ; and have not
manfully bestirred themselves to protect their own

workmen from the enormous exaction, till the ruin

reached themselves. Now when the day of trial is

come, they are not supported, in as noble a cause

as ever humanity was engaged in, by the very
men cook..lv os,e especial interest it is that the
Con, s, be repealed. At Manchester,
as4."7nAt:lthd at Glasoow, there has been
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