The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-09 00:00:00

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1841.

The Morning Post will find another proof in
an article which we insert from the Leeds Times,
that the sentiments which it desired, of course
from an upright love of truth and free discus-
sion, to have visited with punishment, are neces-
sarily becoming prevalent in the manufac-
turing districts. It is impossible that men
should suffer poverty, starvation, and death
from a Legislature, without inquiring into its
right to inflict them, and without coming to the
conclusion that its authority, so long as it is thus
exercised, ought to be spurned. The meanest
thing alive resists annihilation to the utmost of
its power, and shall " man, high-minded man,"
suffer himself to be trampled out of existence on
the plea that for him to submit to starvation now
may perchance benefit the posterity of those
who doom him to a painful and lingering,
death? We have repeatedly informed the aris-
tocracy, and informed the clergy, that by their
perseverance in maintaining a hideously unjust
law for their own selfish purposes, they are ex-
posing to extreme peril the whole fabric of politi-
cal society.

No philosophical inquirer, whose writings we
are acquainted with—no searcher after the truth
of political systems—has come to the conclusion
that the present form of our Government is in-
dispensible to the human welfare. Society,
which has grown, increased, and flourished, un-
der every fbrwi of Government, is, in all its mul-
tiplied and essential relations, independent of
political contrivances. They have been fastened
on it, in many cases, from vile ambition, and
front no view to promote the public good. Ac-
cordingly patient investigation, in modern times,
has led, in general, to conclusions unfavourable
to most of our present institutions. The whole
stream of modern political science and political
experience runs against them. None of them have
is
stood the test of iavestigajAM., and are theoretically
approved of. When such the tendency of
opinion, it is a fatal course in our aristocracy to
hazard the violent disruption o f an old and no
by pers:sting in a great
longer honfonred system,
wrong. Political contrivances of a'll kinds have
l'acießtl away, and it is no disparage ment to the
English ,Constitution to suppose that it will pass
away too. It has already undergone n.'ost ex-
tensive changes without nitwit violence, but im-
mense and almost unheard of mischief will ens ne
if injnstice be persevered in, so that the people.
shall have oo alternative but ruin 9r revolution.

the icle Is have °
have
to . state that
ing held at MancheSter on this day week, a
m
Counnittee was appointed to organise the i.neans
tiecl:l a .el f
thero e thet
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of carrying into execution this resolution :
That with a view to its being shown, peaceably ta -
orderly, that there is little hope of a repeal of the Corn
and Provision-lams unless the people show their deter-
mination not to endure them, and on the orinciple that
taxation without representation is unconstitutional and
unjust, it is the opinion Of this meeting that the plan of
the National Daily Bread Society should be put into
active operation in Manchester forthwith, so that by the
time of the deputations (of working rhea.) ti,ssembling,

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