Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-04-05
>COBBETT's SPEECH,

Commons, on the 7ih of February, 1885.
MIR CoBpErr AID two other members rose at
the same time. There was call for Mr.. Cob
bett, and the others gave wav. The honorable
member spoke to the following effect. If the doc
trne of the honorable gentleman who has last
spoken is good, then there IS no remedy at all
for Ireland, and il would be as we'll to say at
once that military dictation should take place,
and Ireland be ruled in that manner. Why such
fuss about parting with Ireiandl 1t it is good
for nothing, why not let it go? You are mon
strous 10th to part with it. Hear, hear) How
ever, the honorable gentleman has fallen INTO
GREAT error. He has followed the steps oil the
honorable member of Knaresborough. Mr.. Rich
ards and comes TO us piping hot iron the lee.
lures of Sir Il. Paruell. The schoolmaster is
abroad-abroad, indeed; and he has been the tu-
tor of the honorable gentleman on the noor.--
There never was falser doctrine IN the world
than that held up to usoy the honorable member.
He assumes, tha, because Ireland has exported
more since the Union than before 1t, that, there
fore, 10 the same proportion Ireland Is more pros
porous; and the right honorable Secretary, TAX
ING the argument from the honorable member for
Knaresborough, availed himselfo OF all the adSan.
tsse that could be derived from it, and the we'll
stationed and we'll disciplined battalion behind
him ecnOeu anu CuttISu "uut hC Soio. " "e' 80
the fact, then? lament to say that my bonora-
HE colleague is not here. He has documents to
Law befure the house, for the truth Of which he is
responsible, the truth Of which no man can doubt,
and which will show that in exactly the same pro-
portion that the trade Of Manchester increased, in
the same proportion have the profits Of the ma
nutac,urers, the wages of the laborer, and the
comforts OF the laborer. decreased; and which will
,k.k in hnsa mo nf DrOSDerl.
~, of which the honorable member for Leeds has
spoken-(NoD-there are at least 10000 per.
sons in Leeds not getting so much as Sd day.
, MIR. MAoAuLEy-I never said one word about
prosperity. (Iiear. hear, oh!
Mr. CosBErr--The honorable member said
that he had the honor Of being the representative
of a very prosperous town. lie IL the represeD-
tative Of Leeds. Now, wiii pledge myself to
proye that these are ten thousand persons ~ that
town vino do not get Sd day My honorable
colleague vii bring the proofs which he has him.
sell collected. Thus, at the peace. when there
was toleraOie degree Ut prosperity, and the la.
boring people we're doing pretty well, the impor-
tation ot cOttnn Was not what II Is now. The
Importation of cotton. was then-my honorable
colleague will 90 into the detalls--I shall state
the substance-six thou sand bags week. Then
the people we're we'll of. When 1t came to ele-
ven thousand bags, which is nearly double, pro-
f., fell one half. and wages fell also; and when
il became twenty thousand per week, as IL is
nov, he will bring YOU an account OF nifty thou
sand persons, aud in tuli work-of fifty thousand
persons in ore district which he personally exa.
mined, he himself being great manufactured,
will bring you an account which he could verify
on oath, of fifty thousand persons in that dis
trict living on less than % day, and they in
tuli work at the same time. Hear. So the ho.
norable member must not draw conclusions hasti-
ly, that because trade has increased happiness
has increased also. He should not draw conclu-
sons OF that sort, for 1t ne does not remember
the fact, do, that there was time when the mi
mister Of the parish, attended by the churchwar-
dens and overseers ITO stimulate our charity
came from door to door, aud my answer was
that had 10 charity for Irish landlords (hear,
hear, hear,) for knew that they would get 1t at.
ter all. 1Hear.l That was time when there
were %. 900 tons Of oats brought from Galway,
while from that same Galway we had an account
of men dying from starvation.
Well then, these notions OF the honorable
member are fallacious-they will not do. II
must be humiliating for him to find himself So
mistaken-but il must be still more humiliating
after his opinions have been cheered with such
exultation. An error was made By the honora-
bic member for Knaresborough, which il he had
been attended to, (bat his moving from one part
Of the floor to the other prevented that should
not answer, for the honorable gentleman CON-
pletely answered himself. This is a satisfactory
way Of arguing, IA laugh rubbing out as you 60.
a laush) He said that the real remedy was
not the repeal Of the Union. Mind. have not
said one word upon the repeal ofthe Union, for do
not know much about it at present, and it is rule
with me not to talk atout matter, till have had
time To consider it, aud till think understand
il. t1ear.) The honorable member said that
the repeal Of the Union was not the remedy, but
the introduction OF the poor laws was. (''One. ~
Well, one Of the remedies. Now in the opening
Of the honorable members speech was a com.
plant, that the ministers had not mentioned the
distressed state of the poor Of that country. He
accused ministers Of the crime Of omission, that
they did mt state the distress existing in England,
forgetting all the while that there were poor laws
in England. We have had this distress discuss.
ell ofteu aud often, but now it seems to have been
forgotten.