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Manufacturing industry was as horrible as it was strange in
their eyes, We bave alveady seen Sir James Graham’s Zr 38
description of thom as more cruel then the icy wastes of
Siberia, or the burning shores of Mauritias, The chief
Uewspaper of the country party boldly declared that
England would be as great sad powerful, and all usefal
Englishmen would be as rich as they are, though sll the
Manufacturing houses in Great Brifain should be eugulfed
™ rain, The same paper pleased the taste of ite sub-Scribers
 by saying that there was nob a single mill-owner
"ho would not conpound for the destruction of all the ma-Dufacturing
 industry of England, on condition that during
that period he should have full work and high profits for
hig mill, capital, and credit! It is no exaggeration to say
that by the majority of the Parliament of 1841, the cotton-“Plnners
 of the north were regarded with the same abhorrence
 a8 was common twenty years ago towards such
"®presentatives of Trade Unionism as were discovered in
Sheftieid.
Coliden was not cowed by the furious scene. Amid cries
of « oxplain,” he rose to tell the House very quietly, that it
V88 not his mission to indulge in gross personalities. He
assured the members who desired a partisan warfare of this
king, that nothing should drive him into a personal alterca-Sion;
 ang he considered the dignity of the House it some
danger when he found langvage such as they had been lisening
 to for the last half-hour, received with so much com-Placency
 by the Ministers, and with such cheers by the party
8 their back.
There was violent irritation among his friends ah the
Bftack on him and their class, cansed less by the exaggeration
 of the attack itself, than by the exultant spirit in which
1 wag received by the House. Neighboars iv Lancashire
Nuoted in Prontice’s History of the Leagus, 1, 28%

1843.