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all the odd perversiies of the human mind spread themselves
"U6 in panovamic fulness. A long campaign of reckless
aud virnlent calumny was at once opened in the party organs.
One London newspaper described the worst members of the
Association as unprincipled schemers, and the best as self-Souceited
 socialists. Another declared with authority that
it wag composed in equal parts of commercial swindlers and
Political swindlers. A third with edifying unction detounced
 their sentiments as subversive of all moral right and
order, their organization as a disloyal faction, and their
Speakers as revolutionary emissaries, whom all peaceable and
well-dispoged persons ought to assist the authorities in per-®mptorily
 putting down. The Morning Post, the journal of
London idleness, hailed the Manchester workers in a style
that would have been grotesque enough, if only it had not
"epresented the serions thought of many of the most impor-"ant
 people in the dominant class. “The manufacturing
People exclaim, ¢ Why should we not be permitted to exchange
 the produce of our industey for the greatest quantity
of food which that industry will anywhere command?’ To
which we answer, why not, indeed? Who hinders you?
Take Your manufactures away with you by all means, and exchange
 them anywhere you will from Tobolsk to Timbuctoo.
It nothing will serve you but to eat foreign corn, away with
you, you and your goods, and let us never see you more!”
This wag a quarter from which the language of simpletons
as to be expected, but as the repealers had a thousand
SPportunities of discovering within the next seven years, the
lnguage of situpletons has many dialects. One of the
lowest Perversions of the right sense of place and proportion
In things, was reached by those who cried out angrily that
the great and decisive test for candidates at the next general
lection would not be corn laws or anti-corn-laws, but
“How ara your views on the Sabbath question?” The

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