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veluent. %va: ~•Is!ble in ti,,, wilt:-;., :.a..1,---, ,:, tl.O
Lesislaturo, it might assuredly be trae,-,i, 1,,,.;.,,..:.,- anddistinctly, distinctly, in the public mind. In the world's his-
tory no subject of a similar nature had ever beeni so
variously and ably elucidated; and he believec., in
consequence, no subject had been so generally under-
Stood, or so well appreciated, as that of free-trade.
He would put the meetings that had been held there
in evidence, the kind of topics and arguments in
which the audiences had manifested a lively interest,
and the quick response that had been given
t°l, Points which, some few years ago, would have
LE" a matter of hesitation even to the great mass of
d',heated men. Of political economy it might be
now, as it was said of philosophy of old, that it
had been brought down to the habitations of men, to
mingle with the every-day thoughts of the great
mass of the population ; and as public in-
telligence was thus generated, it must soon
banish utterly from the world the prejudices, and
sophisms, and falsehoods, by which mankind had
hitherto been deluded. How short a time was it
since the two rival statesmen, Pit and Fox, made the
world ring with their conflicts; and it was a matter
of question which of the two was the most pro-
foundly and utterly ignorant of the doctrines of
Political economy. And now there could not
a lisping dandy sent down as a candi-
date for a pocket borough, for the purpose
of representing his own relations, but he must
be crammed for the occasion from the works of Adam
Smith—Mr.Cityley's edition.—(Cheers and laughter.)
A people thus instructed, could not be trifled with ;
and it was a proud boast for the League, that to-
gether with intellect, and exertion, and acquire-
ments, it had been the means of diffusing throughout
the country a spirit of intellectual independence
also,---(Hear, hear.) Whenever he found a dis-
position to break through that gross servility
which had so long been a stain on a great
Part of the people of this country ; when he found a
disposition to call things by their right names, how-
everplausible might be the appellation by which they
Nlere distinguished ; when he saw the same standard of
right and wrong applied to the high and low; when he
84V, the peer judged by the same principle that was
applied to the peasant; when he found a desire to bear
testimony to the value of great and wise prin-
ciples, and a lively sympathy felt in the
'wants and wrongs of the poor and helpless
classes—in all this he saw the influence exercised by
the Anti-Corn-law League, spreading throughout the
different classes of society a determination to work
out the right and to put clown the wrong, by peaceful,
and
:s legal,c and honourable, but certain means, the sue-
ir jp:thuletihoillvould be a noble consolation and en-
thisrsement to the minds of those who originated
, which had been the instrument of
Theyli using these principles throughout the country.
had
would evidence of that—evidence which they
not shrink from looking fairly in the face. It
was continually brought up that the League had lost
several important elections. They were taunted with
this by the public journals. It was said that they
dared not show themselves in several boroughs, and
contest them. They had not been able to contest
Cirencester and Horsham. Well, now he (Mr. Fox)
held that no evil at all. He believed it to be a real
good; that a cause like this should have such coin-
pLabats was not at all surprising. There were a
vast number of persons who had not been hitherto
onnected with political agitation, not accustomed to
long and toilsome processes which must be gone
through for achieving any great work of social or po-
suitteatlh iemprovennent. He held it to be a great good
etminds of the people should be dispossessed of
h a notion that they had only to tell the people
hwhat was true and right, and then that there would
ad speedy and complete triumph. If these elections
;resulted differently, what would have been the of
jet on a great portion of those who had for the first
when
in their lives joined in any political agitation
wnen they became connected with the League? Why
:the lesson would have been that opinion was free ;
at action was free • that there was no intimidation
elections; no bribery; no active sinister influence
the
•••M-
-,, irVert the consciences of voters and drag them to
Erie Polling booth to vote against their interests and
tagainst their feelings. That was the lesson so easy a
ries., i
h_ `"Pii would have inculcated, but that lesson would
t_evve been a gross falsehood.—(Flear, hear.) It would
raa ! seemed by such a result that monopoly was
tesr drive up the contest without making a despe-
_ unscrupulous effort; that class interests
Publicsvould have struck, and readily yielded to the voice of
endopinion, and that they might not have appre-
ed from it a tooth and nail resistance and a
statruggle to the death. That lesson would have been
taught, arid that lesson, too, would have been a gross
sulatelltr:t. It would have been judged by such a re-
learned yarty spirit had subsided; that haying
not, for wisdom and rectitude, the aristocracy would
f, the sake of pragmatically asserting some ill-
ir,o°./Incled political theory, have further persevered in
•;„-I,r °PPusitiori, but would have yielded to the voice of
ii-,,,stice, but that result, too, would have been a false-
tCh• It would have appeared by such results that
1.- e Present arrangements were all-sufficient for the
tnights and interests of society, and that the arrange-
ties°,_ts of elections, and all the electoral and political
CFhinery connected with them, were as good as could
t7oireagined—all that could be desired ; that lesson,
Those Would have been a gross falsehood.—(Hear, hear.)
mature] who cried .out defeat, therefore, cried out pre-
eiser,9Y. The opposition they had experienced had
most Pow
the public mind, and would eventually
tire Powerfully tend towards the interests of the en-
CNis seec,'"hrit unity.—(Loud cheers.) For those who
o `,l_ 1 with exultation and scorn to such results as
The
pep mentioned, he would say they laughed too soon.
People tation
~.,_ . were organising and combining in an agi•
that ao7tl-12:_sh nothing could resist, and the elements of
pedritineenilloenasLioNONf.n were, education, instruction in the first
Political economy ; and when such an
such
" a people2s Perfected, and when the energies of
the"
were were directed towards one point, when
ciPle, their forward in sustaining one mighty prin-
tion of ts, orce would be resistless, and the founda-
gdorein:esusiet na;tioi;
nal character would be laid, and of the
thing the 1-1
oan. Prosperity of the empire. Another
"ad done, and which was well worth
tvery
on "a° unmasked the monopolist class.
tow, knew the features of that class
a am
e • and t
~-• There hey could never be disguised
'eeently int Was
a mystification at a parallel
and Perso roduced between peers and men of station
blood rating of an humbler class, as if a different
flowed i In the veins of the lord from that which
when 4.° the veins of the peasant, and it was only
rin, free he
• •
d Q close d. principles came into that constant
,1111 ed tn iseussion which they had been recently
w,
loree Proved
undergo, that those feudal associations
I to be all fallacies; that in reality this
4e 3' class %,
quarters of c
pt,hohs. as as much a trading class as if they
euiblettsvnp
theeheapside, and that coronets were only
quantity of acres and the numbers of
There trader:rn which they grew.—(Hear.) Yes, they
_.es, , wholesale traders in land and in corn.
...the
witlo:rere traders in food for all sorts of beings, from
;arias • ch a man eats to the seed which the
~
innal p traael icks in his cage.—(Cheers.) They
s
kluncl for 'S° .and in pheasants. They traded in
'hewed a.n.diling booths and in race-courses.—
„,it /none
on
of " Hear, hear," and cheers.) They
isai'lla to
413174 en races themselves, and then brought in
Worse is° gartersi4e lid the payment. They traded in stars
-'B' cf all si, especially in blue ones; but what was
Peblsant s.. ie.), traded in legislation, by which the
into was ss .
•-•
're a source made more miserable, and converted
maker 3 hee „, °I. Profit.—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
hear s, for the"e r e hucksters, with the power of law-
peL.r.) The__ enhancement of their prices.—(Hear,
sh," lineo_dre was a great outcry raised against the
dire the la who taught his 'prentice boy to
"1 ink,. sules, whilst those noble legislators
t4tlch itelY Wor
po iiiter anti
latch
is closer t se, for they shaved the nation, and
00, than the poor linen-draper.—(Great
orsteid, Rod ifebeers-) Their fallacies had been ex-
patthey had not been the original authors
ii:o:,ethees•rie ;oils of the doctrines of the Morning
ds M, as Mr was an immediate connection between
sucotrine_, •,uobden had well remarked. It was the
Ithlt pdist, I:le,kt-burning in practice, was only Rich-
_rit great
eheLenreore,
J (Loud cries of " Hear, hear,"
l''aurrilkiel than the) There could not be a completer
80
~lpg. If
iii between Richmondism and rick-
gyred he the other one one wantonly destroyed property,
than hhrnan I' Hear, hear.) If the one endan-
ah,t . endanger 'ei why, human life was worse
;___ 'unable ss_ angered
and that by wholesale by those
:','lleiocenti, B...,„Tvation laws. if some rick-burners
IL_‘l_ coinsul red hy, so did a very large class of
ecl meat ~i'_',V,ieand most of all those who were poorest
r 4, aven, ao"'cir,l S!. If the one destroyed the gifts of
stiff' ueli larger ' the other.--(Loud cries of " Hear.")
olk quantity. of corn, than the fires of
cours '
and
ice of rje°ceulnitn
had, • ' mid of the nci• •
ygecaorus,nbtieeesn, hsatulffceorendsutmo
reodt,
to, in the
,:earsit°esichovellecley,nllad rotted in bond, and had been
at der
hear.") Whu)
.I.,7l,eili,avv_sthaiin a. _the river.—(Loud cries of
lil_iie.hri.
few.rnoYr;thhsadagnoo?t_th(at been the case at
ruction, Hear hear.) Then
mighty difference ? In'the eements
of (lest' the
corn 17%,.hy should that be wicked which de-
Eve . destroyed
!tr,o.yed
corn
__-c.;,
.n without reference to
winch °Y fire, and that be virtuous
byth
awtramteorr?e—a(!-.lfeualr,trilbieuanra.)l
twhtle3,leilldbeen appealed to that evening, he believed
rude.Alary Were
the °ill not
4,je_ Ilan of this transported for life, the future
their punishment either, and if
cotuirliotry would consign to the detes-
eumn of posterit
had"s• It had League
cl other
waY the Ze
mulated them se selfish law-makers. In an-
had exposed the monopolist
elicited their virtue.—(Laughter.) It
,1 sti
to philanthropy, for how bene-
Aoil of the distress t'c' ent °f late had the shown themselves? The ques-
of the poor was in constant agita-
tlon• Ever
y political •
section set up some beneficent

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