The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-06-27
From the London League.

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While every political party in the State
manifests signs of disruption and disunion
it is gratifying 10 find that The Free-Traders
who belong not to party but to principle, are
at once increasing rapidly in numbers, and
becoming more perfect in unity. Free
Trade is not question between one set Of
men and another; it is not even question
of one community, one nation, or one age:
it belongs TO all time and to all mankind
1t was admirably said by Mr.. Fox, in his
most eloquent address at the late Covent-
garden meeting:-
"Onr principles are not merely as old as
political economy, they are, in truth, as old
as the history of mankind, the facts Of which
are the materials of political economy
They are interwined with the records of the
prosperity and the calamity of nations. We
can trace them through the long annals of
ancient and modern times. We trace them
back beyond this even 10 The very constitu-
I lion of nature and the globe ITSELF They
are the dictates of philosophy, interpreted
. by the system of things in which we live,
and Of which we form portion; for when
that mighty Power who spread abroad the
heavens fixed suns in their central position,
and rolled the planets in their orbits, sur
rounded them with belts and satellites, meas
uring the course, limlless as itseems, Of the
wandering comet, which, in lis wild career
moves from the intensity of light 10 the deep
est darkness; binding all together by the
principle Of gravitation, and thus united it te
other systems through all the infnity Of
being, that Power fashioned this eartl
of ours, it made reflex of the combined
harmonized, and mutually dependent system
which is exhibited 10 the astronomer whel
he gazes on the heavens,-it endowed one
climate with one species of fertility and an.
other with another, and surrounded the eartl,
with those zones--!emperate, torrid, and
frigid--constitutng climates, sunny or moist
in all their diversities, and gave the luscious
vine to grow upon the banks of the Rhine
and the Rhone, and enriched the spice is
ands with their fragrant products,--it spread
the broad and vast prairies of America, suf
fcent TO grow corn for the whole world.
consumption; planted the tea groves OF
China; endowed the sugar-cane with it.
sweetness; and gave 10 Britain its coast
minerals, and industry: and by these, as by
the mutual dependence of the heavenly
bodies, it said, Gall these belong to eaci
other Let their influence be reciprocal
let one minister to another: be the interest
of each the interest of all, and let all minis
ter to each: they are one in wisdom and be.
nefcence, and show forth as resplendenl,
as the starry heavens the glory of benevo-
4 lent Providence.'"
To the great truths developed in this mag
nifcent passage, sufficient attention has moi
been paid. A monopoly in food is an auda-
cious interference with the Divine govern
ment of Providence; it is an open revol,
against the ordinances which the wisdom of
the Creator has affixed 10 the rule and con-
|stitution of that nature which He called
into being; it is setting up of the stunted
intellect of selGshness as a rival TO Omni-
science. There is feeling of horror
which creeps over the mind instinctvely
when we look upon the ranks of the mono
|polists, and see who are the creatures that
|profer us better system than that which
was devised by "the Father of lights, in
whom there is no variableness nor shadow of
turning" in them there is indeed enough of
|" variableness," for they have shifted theil
Corn Law from one form to another as mis-
erable interests seemed to dictate; and
their sliding scale is one vast shadow OF
turning" presenting to us all the vicisstudes|
of gloom, from the faint twilight of partial
10 the dark mdnigh of absolute
despair The legislation of the monopo-
lists is virtually an effort TO take the moral
government of mankind from the hands of
Providence, and transfer it to the traders inI
famine and the trafickers in starvation. The
Christian refutes the atheist by pointing out
the evidences Of benevolent design in the /
physical and moral universe; the monopolst