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the paper was torn up. At Norwich, the leading yeoman
of the county pat a number of questions to Cobden, which
Were go neatly and conclusively answered, that the farmers
ho were listening to the controversy burst ouf into loud
"pplause, The terse sentences in which Cobden condensed
bis matter carried conviction home. Though it was im-Possible
 for him to invent mew arguments or discover
Unfamiliar facts every dsy, yet even those who were best
S%quainted with the facts and the arguments, were struck
8 every meeting by his power of selecting and concentrating
 the important points, with a conversational strength
tha brought every word within the easy comprehension
of the most careless listener. Antagonists were sometimes
“bute, but were often stupid even to impenetrability.
1% one place, a clergyman firmly contended that scarcity
bad nothing to do with dearness. In that case, Mr. Bright
"plied, he need not be afraid of repeal, for of course on
bis Principles abundance csuld not produce cheapness.
At Hertford the Shire Hall was so crowded, that the
Meeting was held in the open air. The multitude was
Mainly composed of farmers, and on the skirts of the mul-Mtnde
 some of the most important squires in the county
%t on horseback to hear the discussion. Cobden spoke for
wo hours, and obtained a sympathetic hearing by his an-Youncement
 that he wae the son of a Sussex farmer, that he
tag kept his father’s sheep, and had seen the misery of a
*ont-day, Tt was ab this meeting at Hertford that he first
"et Mr. Lattimore, the well-known farmer of Wheathamp-“ead,
 to whom he was in the subsequent course of the
“Ovement, greatly indebted for agricultural facts bearing
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