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London, England, 1842-02-14 00:00:00

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LONDON!
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1842.

ofln
atil.at3i 2r85:1118,121
e6oL ot
the
de LIN' R
countryPo o
ILv,a thenin agtrtehaet bdeiasd.
tress, declared that Parliament could do nothing
to relieve that distress. Again
,the country is
plunged, as at that period, in distress; and again
the Government, by the mouth of Sir ROBERT '
PEEL, in proposing the new sliding scale declares
that it has nothing to offer which can relieve the
distress of the people. In 1525-1826, it was not
clear that the distress then existing—though it
undoubtedly sprang from our Corn and Money-
laws, particularly those of 1815) 1819, and 1822
was immediately caused, like the present dis-
tress, by an enactment of the Legislature. But
then, as now, the law-makers told the people, in
substance, that they must: bear their misery with
patience, for the laW•tntik ers could not help them.
Whenever there is a tax tO be levied, a coer-
cive law to be passed, a
puriishthent to' be in-
flicted, a bloody war to be waged, a multitude
of people to be sacrificed, the Legislature is all-
powerful; whenever the . people suffer distress,
0r complain of a grievance, though. inflicted by
the Legislature, that body is as impotent to re-

lieye or redress it as a suckingb
The present distress Is, in fact, a i
proposition to re-enact the
sliding scale, the
b
mocked by a
suuree of Our woe. Under such circumstances
it is not- surprising to find it generally asked
" ‘vliat will the people, what are the people to
do ?" A more important question was never at
any time put to rational beings- -and as the
people answer it, so will be their fate for many
years to come. 1

The question no longer concerns the effects of
Corn-law; about them the dispute is at an end
it now concerns the validity ;
of
and authority the
law and the means to be taken to get rid of it.
A general union of the working and middle
classes, as we have elsewhere stated, will be ef-
fectual for that end. In the meantime it is
right to make the people aware that Sir ROBERT
PEEL has weakened the authority of the Corn-
law, and will help us to get rid of it. "He has
alarmed," said the Spectator on Saturday, "an
important section of his followers by venturing

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