The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-02 00:00:00

With respect to admitting sugar tainted with slavery.
Now he was going to let out a secret. There was a
secret correspondence going on between the Govern-
tent here and the Government of Brazil, and it was
to.. this effect.—(Hear, hear.) These statesmen some-
times wrote private letters of instruction co their
a4ents, which were not published till a hundred years
afterwards.—(Laughter ) Now he would give them
one which would be published in about one hundred
Years to come, passing between our Government and
the Government ofßrazil. The present Ministry turned
out the late Administration on the question of sugar, and
Lord Sandon grounded his argument on the allegation
that it wa.s very impious to use slave-grown sugar.
Therefore inform the Brazilian Government that we
tad pledged in the article of sugar, and when we
rinß on the budget we shall be obliged to tell the
reePle of England who are " gullible," that it would
. very improper to encourage slavery by taking Bra-
sugar; but to convince the Brazilian Govern-
ment that we don't mean to do them any harm, we
will take their coffee at 2d. per pound less than we
did i
form erl37; and whereas fur out of five of the
slaves n Brazil are employed in the coffee planta-
ti
i3ns; and whereas three-fifths of all the exports from
c_ra,zil are coffee and sugar, which are compara-
reiY insignificant articles—(Laughter)—this will
Fnlvince them that we do not mean to inflict any
their
on tie Brazilian planters, by refusing to take
sugar. We are simply bound to do it by the
Peculiarity of our position, after having tripped up
the heels of the Whigs.—(Great laughter.) That
Was the dispatch which
would be published a hundred
Mars hence, as having been sent to their Envoy and
1 tater Plenipotentiary at Brazil. Now,
.no
doubt,, they werehonest, well
sli-u were opposed to the admission of Brazilian
1,,,,ger, but philanthropy should always be guided
reason; and there was a class of men growing into
"Isid b
, era le notoriety in this country, who wanted to
B,ll,cject them not to the dictates of enlightened bene-
Co"°lenc but to the control of pure fanaticism.—(Hear.)
rewas regarded as a conductor of morality,
oth
to flas a,,non-conductor. He remembered talking
sue. , °f"lese very benevolent gentlemen upon this
anott' Wll° had on a white muslin cravat. He (Mr.
e) immediately said to him, " Before you say
your word, strip that slave-grown cotton from
Wasneck. "_(Great laughter.) He replied that it
not Practicable, but this he (Mr. Cobden) de-
, tor he knew a gentleman who had taken to
jworsted stockings in the., summer, and would not allow
Vhgartnents to be put together with cotton thread.
tha;at right had they to go over to Brazil and to fill
e'r ships with cotton, and then turn up the whites
otheir eyes, and shed crocodile tears over the slaves ?
14'e "'I ng was, in the first place, inconsistent, and in the
iticyc'nu, hypocritical. Did they say that he was an
'°eate for the continuance of slavery because he
a jWrt's tan advocate of free trade ? No. He maintained
(me just and sound principle could never be at
With another just and sound principle.—(Cheers.)
of they could show him that free trade was promotive
slavery,
shoehe should hesitate between freedom of
sho
and freedom of person. Nay, if they could
wow him that free trade would propitiate slavery he
uld be prepared to abandon it. But he had al-
• held a contrary opinion. He had always thought,
1,,u_l all the greatest writers on the subject, that slava
ur was more costly than free labour : and that if
Zoth were brought into fair competition, the latter
hi "I supersede the former.—(Cheers.) He found
~etnself borne out in this by the Anti-Slavery Con-
ilti°n, which sat in 1840. (The Honourable
,oliember then read , a resolution of the
eo,;:entien in confirmation of his statement.) This
lat,„„erition had, he continued, declared that slave
be :r was more costly than free labour. It would
the- monstrous anomaly in the moral government of
to._ world if it were not.—(Cheers.) But if the
it aiention believed this, why did they wish to prevent
ail jetil being proved ?—(Hear, hear.) He was
Lng •to believe that they were honest, and they
• proved themselves disinterested by; the labours
"well they had gone through ; but he warned them
had they
made the tools of designing men who
an an an interest in upholding this monopoly of sugar,
out ,"`Lno were using the anti-slavery party to carry
he selfish selfish and iniquitous purpose.—(Hear,
to ),Before he sat down there was one point
Air.wumh he particularly wished to advert.
Ricardo had spoken of the probability of an
do etti°ll. He would tell them what the people must
Itobe°,.,earry out the principles of free trade. Sir
part Peel had, on a former occasion, advised his
at i. to register, and, by following his advice,
Tthey
ngth succeeded in placing him in power. I\ ow,
w_ re. were a number of persons in this country who
,„"e at that moment voluntarily disfranchised. There
•Yere
cforty or fifty thousand persons in the metropolis.
tern,,, who were entitled to vote who had not regis-
keo, and there were many thousands besides in
Irchester, Leeds, and other towns.—(Hear, hear.)
ventured to say that, in the City of London,
there was hardly a single house rated at less than 101.
rear• How many of the inhabitants were there who
ailinet registered? Let all such persons remember that
e next election the League meant to bring for-
teltrd four free traders.—(Great cheering.) In about
h
to' Weeks the time would have elapsed for claiming
vcle• In order to have a vote for the next year a
tn
(1-'°,ll must have occupied a 101. house for a twelve-
paid h, Previous to the 31st of July, he must have
014 all the rates and taxes due up to the 6th of April,
tiler' he would be entitled to have his name re-
irred
on the list of voters for the next year.—
,hear,) It ought also to be generally known
ht
every !Ilan
b"
a late decision of the Court of Common Pleas,
were
of
t: se who rented a room in a house, if that room
Pa rate tenement, that is, if he had the key
of 44 P
room, and could go into it and out
vote when he pleased, he was entitled to
rate that that room. If his landlord paid the
Were ,t W,as a sufficient payment, provided his name
ef °town along with the landlord's in the books
the e overseers. Now that decision alone had given
tit landlords about 1,500 or 2,000 votes in the
parlsof London, besides many thousands in other
thin °f the country.—(Hear, hear.) It was a sad
F that 50 many persons should have no vote, sim-
Peeause they would not take the trouble to regis-
ter,'team lie hoped that every individual who either
if e„„ or read his remarks on that subject, would,
„,„"tled to do so, immediately register his name as
liy7r• Even the non-electors might do something
tn'rging all who were entitled to vote to enrol their
48 • It was by such means as these that they
hand be prepared to meet their opponents in that
mus constitutional fight ,by which that question
be decided; and if they were true to their prin-
by; bes' they would not suffer another election to pass
lier-Lthout sending a majority to Parliament who
favour of free trade.—(Great cheering.)
Seal the enthusiasm,
congratulated the meeting on the
thei„"ne enthusiasm, and patience which had marked
tehT,',Preceedings, auguring well for free trade, and
the-,,,lliated to strike terror into their enemies. Let
1v0i,"4.1 but break down the corn monopoly, and they
Whr,ll_ find the landowners, like the fox in the fable,
401.;,"dd lost hii tail, ready to join with them to break
,tll. others.—(Cheers.)
meeting then dispersed.