Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-06-27
Free Trade.

exchange papers. They were originally
published in The London League, the organ
and exponent of the Anti-C Corn Law League
the great free trade association in Eng
land. We publish them. particularly Mr..
McDafiie's, because they convey an idea of
the estimation in which our statesmen Of
the South. hold the great society which
has been recently organized in Great Bril-
tain, for The purpose of enIightening the
public mind, in that country. on the ruin
Gus effects which class legislation is wor-
king on the toi!ing millions in the British |
Isles. They were written in answer to
letters received from the chairman of the |!
council of the League, accompanied with
bound copies of that periodical. The la
bors Of this Institution are destined, we
confidently think and believe, to work, !;
no distant day, radical reformation in the
commercial policy of England, which will
greatly tend to ameliorate the condition Of
the poor laboring classes of her population.
Here are the letters -
GEN. McDUFFIE.
A bound copy of the League having been
forwarded to General McDufie by George
Wilson, Esq, Chairman ofthe Council Of the
League, the former has returned the follow
| ing acknowledgment -
WASHINGTON, March Ii, 1915.
"My Dear Sir Il have just received your
friendly and f1atterIng letter, requesting me,
in the name of the Council of the Anti Corn
| Law League Of Great Britain, to accept of
copy of the first volume Of the League as a
testimony Of their esteem, founded upon the
services have rendered to the great cause Of
Free Trade with all nations. In accepting
this gratifying token of their consideration
and regard, beg the Council to be assured
that none other could have been selected more
acceptable TO me than this authentic record Of
the early and successful labors of an associa-
ton, which, from its commencement, have
regarded with the deepest interest, as being
destined to produce a Fundamental change in
the commercial policy of Great Britain, which
cannot but be followed by corresponding
changein the policy of all the commercial ma
tons of the earth. Since the Saviour Of our
fallen race sent forth his chosen apostles to
preach the sublime doctrine of Peace on earth
and good will to all men, no human associa-
ton has been formed, in my opinion, better
,
and happiness of all nations than the Free
/ Trade League of Great Britain. A system of
Free Trade, adopted by all nations, would
F.. bind them together by bonds of common int
rest and mutual good will, which the ambi.
= ton Of rulers could never tear asunder. Every
nation would rejoice in the prosperity Of all
nations, as being essential to its own.
? "And here the remark may he appropriate
ly made, that there are no political commune
ties on the face of the earth to which these
views SO forcibly apply as to Great Britain,
: France, and the other manufacturing nations
r of Europe on the one hand, and the agricutu-
raj staple States of the North American con.
federacy on the other. AS representative OF
} the great exporting interest Of these States, I
habitually look upon the prosperity Of Man
f chester with as much interest and gratifca-
ton as do upon that of Charleston or New
: York, and much more than do upon that OF
Boston, which am constrained to regard as the
/ frnits of an unjust and oppressive system Of
= legalZed plnnder, which confscates at least
one-6fth of the annual income of the cotton
? planters to sustain meIcenary moneyed arts.
tocracy of pampered and bloated monopolists
T SIN conclusion, l beg you to assure the
I League that they shall have my constant
e prayers for their success; that the time may
speedily arrive when the banner of Free Trade
a shall wave in triumph over the whole world
and that, beneath its ample folds, 'the nation:
$ of the earth may pitch their tents in peace.
8 Accept for yourself, personally, the assurance
e OF my high consideration ard regard.
n "GEORGE McDUFFIE.
e Geo. Wilson, Esq, Manchester, Grea
1 Britain.'
The following has been received from :!
+ {. Calhoun, ESD, the celebrated American