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Cobden, condemnatory of 'the violent measures resorted to at Canton in the late affair of the "Arrow." The motion, supported by Mr. Gladstone in one of his splendid bursts of rhetoric, was carried against the Government by a majority of sixteen, in a full and excited house, on the morning of February 26, 1857.
On the motion of a vote of thanks to the Mayor of Manchester, who was retiring from the mayoralty, Mr Cobden said: "Before that resolution is passed, I will take the opportunity of making an observation.
If that balance should little correspond with the bold and unscrupulous allegations of Mr Cobden if it should be found to derogate from the assumed super-eminence of the foreign trading interest over the colonial, let it be remembered that the invidious discussion was not raised by us, nor by any member of the Legislature who can rightfully be classed as the representative of great national and constitutional principles; that the distinction and disjunction of interests, both national, with the absurd attempt unduly to elevate the one by unjustly depreciating the other, is the work of the League alone, which, having originated the senseless cry of "class interests," would seem doggedly determined to establish the fact, per fas et nefas, as the means of funding and perpetuating class divisions.
The Tariff Reform movement put Free Trade on its defence, and taught men to realize what the older economics of Liberalism had done for them. The Socialists of practical politics, the Labour Party, found that they could by no means dispense with the discipline of Cobden. Free Trade finance was to be the basis of social reform.
The last time Mr. Cobden addressed a public audience, he said, "If I were a rich man, I would endow a professor's chair at Oxford and Cambridge to instruct the undergraduates of those universities in American history.
Cobden had said that under certain circumstances he would fight, or if he could not fight, he would work for the wounded in the hospitals.
The saying, true and old as the fact men call character, that it is what an individual is, and not what he does, which marks him good or ill among his kind, holds eminently true with regard to Richard Cobden. Not only was the range of his sympathies wide, the aim was sure; "he never lost sight," said Mr.
I tell you where I think that as a nation we are going wrong. We fixed once upon a great principle, and we nailed it to our mast for all time. That is a mistake. Absolute Free Trade, such as is at present our national policy, was a magnificent principle in the days of Cobden but the times have changed. We must change with them. That is where the typical Englishman fails.
Cobden Henry Vincent M. Girardin Abbe Duguerry Victor Hugo: his Speech. VERSAILLES, August 24. After the Convention had finished its sittings yesterday, I accompanied Mrs. M. C and sisters to Versailles, where they are residing during the summer. It was really pleasing to see among the hundreds of strange faces in the Convention, those distinguished friends of the slave from Boston. Mrs.
The Association was soon after reinforced by John Bright, an exceedingly brilliant popular orator, who was rich enough to devote a large part of his time to the spread of his opinions. Between him and Cobden a friendship and cordial co-operation sprang up, which lasted to the death of the latter.
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