British Indian Advocate (Newspaper) - January 1, 1842, London, Middlesex THE BRITISH JUSTICE TO TO TO THE JANUARY PRICE FREE AND THEIR WE have before us three recently delivered in by GEORGE Two of before the ladies of Man chester and the on the subject of a memorial to the Queen in favour of a repeal of the Corn and Provision Laws the before the AntiMonopoly of the town of We present our readers with several extracts from these deeming them priate to our and in unison with the views which during the last twelve months we have been according to our to bring before the It will be seen while discus sing topics of deep domestic the welfare of our British Indian and their has not been We have long been that the cause of justice to India will be ad in proportion to the progress made in enlightening the British public on the subject of free Thompson draws an affecting picture of the condition of the labouring classes in the manufacturing He says You are summoned from your homes by the piercing cry of hunger sent up by hundreds of thousands of your The harvest is and tbe summer is ended instead of contentment and abundance of tbe land is full of mourning on account of in are standing all the day because there is none to hire Their wives and little ones are pining Once happy homes are The fire has gone out upon the The cupboard is The bed clothing has been sold for Every source of relief is dried The once industrious and cheerful is now a listless and wandering He has begged till is none to He has borrowed until his credit is He is Brooding over his unmerited he is ready to follow evil advice and the safety of our homes is menaced by the disaffection produced by idleness and and the passions that are developed by wretchedness and The poverty of tbe people is too ex too while the present which cripple industry and commerce continue is too permanent to admit of still less of The middle classes are daily sinking under their own and are totally unable to give support to those who are Manufac tures are because distant markets are In every direction employment to and deserted the thousands to whom they furnished the means of sub with the still greater number dependent upon are cast upon tbe and shop who are threatened with ruin in the same vortex that has swallowed up the means of tbe working In these appalling circumstances dis tressing and ominous at any period we have entered upon the dreary season of Alas for those who have no fuel to warm food with which to nourish clothes with which to cover Alas for those amidst the howling and driving and pinching are doomed to shiver in food less hovels and and to hear the cry of their little ones for have none to break amongst them And do not such demand our pity and shall they not have our sym pathy and is it not a noble work for the women of England to rouse up at the strong call of and betake themselves to every Christian and con means of saving these and children alive Thompson thus introduces the subject of free trade Who amongst us does not admire the wisdom and goodness of God in the diversities of nature By the laws He has framed for the of which we form a it is ordained that the vast system around us shall be a system of mutual It is peculiarly so in reference to the social Man is dependent upon family upon community upon commu one country upon another The good of man individually is blended tbe good of the race The universal cause Acts not by but by general laws And makes what happiness we justly not in the good of but all Thus answer one great And true selflove and social are the The almost infinite varieties of and productions by tbe world is plainly teach this that men should be dependent on each other that the different tribes and families of the earth should reci Tbe inhabitants of every part of the world can supply that which is required by other lands and every country has wants and in proportion to its which can be supplied by other Every land is not a land of or or or cornfields by means of the riches of one land are available to the inhabitants of every As you enter many shops before all your desires are so you have to resort to many lands forthe comforts and luxuries of One land is the another the another the garden of the One gives its another its another its another its The dependence and consequent intercourse thus created subserve the highest and holiest pur Knowledge is civilization is brotherhood and friend ship are peace is freedom is religion is men beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into and into a harmonious and happy It is by commercial in by tbe mutual offices which arise out of one country supplying an other with it is able to and obtaining something that it values in that the less civilized are enabled to start in their stimulated to rise above the lower forms of social gradually adorned with all that the and and government can and a result produced such as war is utterly unable to effect if it by chance renders any service to the cause of that service is stained with human blood in tbe com and accompanied with bitterness in the to their shame be it there are some who by and selfish restrain this intercourse between nation and nation and restrain it at a period and in a state of the world when it is likely to prove a greater bless ing than at any former There are those who would control natures highway across the globe would limit the communications would ine arise out of a free trade and in reference to states as well as promote that comparative isolation which is the concomitant of bar The lowest considerations of physical and the highest claims of morality and religion the dictates of the most calculating of the most expansive benevolence the simplest justice towards who toil for the support of and tbe soundest conclusions of those who study the progress of alike demand tbe repeal of laws BO and as those prevent a free trade between man and and nation and in the produce of the earth which is the support of their ex O that men were wise that they would purify their notions of poli tical economy by the study of the will of and the general interests of the human Then would unfettered industry be paid In the rich wealth its own free hands had Then would mankind fulfil Heavens first And earth with fruitfulness replenished Then would wars bloodred banner soon be And Peace triumphant reign throughout the world While freighted fleets should traverse every And Commerce wing her and free Island be to main to Binding all fast in Loves harmonious in he says I have not wrongly interpreted the designs Ruler of the he in tends white should yetTe united in the diversified products of their soil and and receiving all useful knowledge each according to his opportunities and to stock of human science and human happiness and thus be all linked together by innumerable in the harmonious society that becomes children of a common In looking at the different countries of the we shall find none that combine all tbe advantages which are provided for the comfort and welfare of and none tbat are wholly destitute of One country enjoys a rich fruitful in all agricultural produce another pos and and which fit it for the production of The different descriptions of food and fruits are peculiar to different countries and The materials out of which the various kinds of clothing are manufactured come from every quarter of the The torrid zone supplies articles which comfort and delight the inhabitants of the frigid and the in furnishes materials refresh the people of the Both countries contribute to tbe wants and luxuries of tbe inhabitants of the tem perate which is able amply to repay the The poet Virgil has beautifully referred to the and scattered gifts of nature Here golden harvests wave there vineyards glow Fruit bends the or herbs unbidden grow Her saffron her ivory boasts Spice wings the gale round Sabas balmy coasts The naked Chalybes their iron yield The powerful Castor scents the Pontic field J While famed Epirus rears the equestrian Born for the palm that crowns tbe Olympic In stated from the eternal Such natures compact and unbroken What is the doctrine which nature thus teaches It is the doctrine of anti doctrine of free As an eloquent writer has observed Free trade is tbe plain duty and plain interest of the human To level all barriers to free exchange to cut up the system of root and branch to open every port on to every product this is the office of en lightened Security against at a cheap of the varied fruits of the only one of the benefits of free is a benefit to a great one unshackled commerce is fraught with benefits to the world at In tbe language of the same eloquent It is a free commerce which spreads the inventions and writings of great men over the and gathers scientific and literary every into an intellectual It carries abroad the and the and the and is giving universality to true not ignorant that these are trite but I dont therefore deem of It is not enough that men think on these that they bold their views in the We want to see the principle carried suf fering from tbe violation of this sacred principle of free trade We must talk it into We must form must hold must deliver we must circulate must not cease working until this law of
