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Ministers have proceeded thus far in the earlier stages of their career , with a fatal facility : no obstruction has arisen ; those of them who are commoners are-re-elected , as a matter of course ; they encounter not even the resistance which is due to a formidable party advancing from opposition to power ; pledged to subvert the established policy of a trading country , in matters of trade , they enter upon the possession of office , and the
country scarce takes heed of the event . They may well fear for the possibility of restoring their master principle , when its champions sire as harmless as flies in the regard of the publjjS ^ Opportunity cows them , and th ^ r ^« a 4 w 8 ses , ' w ^ jjj & fe exception , are an amusing avoidance of the very subject that they were expected to expound ! The " exception , " who has uttered the compromising words , is Robert Adam Christopher , a guest of M . Bonaparte the other day , now Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . He has , in effect , told the farmers of Lincolnshire , that he
has accepted office on the distinct conviction that the free-trade policy will be reversed . So far good . Mr . Benjamin Disraeli is more oracular in his announcements , but scarcely less significant . He hopes , at " no distant day , with the concurrence of the country , to establish a policy "—not of protection , but in conformity with the principles of the opposition . Mr . Henley has shown even more tact than his leader . A simple , clear , barren statement
of the plainest facts , respecting the exit of the late , and t he entrance of the present ministry to power , suffices for him . He says nothing of policy for near or distant days . He is mute . Sir John Palrington is quite as reserved . * j ach and all , except Mr . Christopher , avoid pledging themselves to restore protection ; and J > e public are as far from knowing the real intentions of Ministers as they arc from seeing the North Pole . b
In striking contrast with the attitude of the ^ mister candidates , is that ° t tlie guardians of co trft . - Tho Anti-Com-League lias re-estab-_ sneu itself at . Manchester , and re-exists in full possession of a staff , an exchequer , and a Cobdcn . « boasts of 27 , 000 / ., subscribed in twenty-five " mutes , and of the « unadorned eloquence" with piestige added to all its original vigour . Peel jueeu ims gone ; but instead of Peel , there ia the ° l > le , which has learned the practicability and icssings of unrestricted trade in food ; while Pro-L ^ ounthy Edition . ]
tection has lost all the ablest men , with one or two illustrious exceptions—has lost the . great body of agricultural labourers—has lost the confidence even of farmers . At Manchester the League reexists , vivid , wealthy , organized , ready , uncompromising . At Aylesbury , Mr . Disraeli is inexplicit , unready , not uncompromising ; all his colleagues
are siriging the same equivocal song—save Christopher , who lets the cat out of the bag in an amusing style . He divulges the astounding fact , that after all his colleagues really are Protectionists— when everybody thought they were only shamming ! And yet , somehow , instead of being frightened at Christopher ' s indiscreet disclosure , people only laugh the more .
Certain Protectionists , indeed , are beyond tempering ; and the Standard—which could not believe in Peel ' s defection , which has itself counselled deliberation in restoring Protection , which cordially believes with Christopher that the policy is to be restored—is very indignant at the insolence of the Anti-Corn-League in reexisting ; and it threatens the manufacturers with a social revolution of Labour against Capital .
Strange to say , the prophetic Standard is not far wrong in fact , though it is in spirit . The social change has not only begun , but has already made no small progress ; as our readers will find from the proceedings of the Amalgamated Engineers . A meeting was held at St . Martin ' s Hall , on Thursday evening , to which the council of the society had invited , not only their own trades , but all the trades of the metropolis , with a view of forming a general union , and of carrying on
with increased vigour the experiment of self-employment in co-operative workshops . ' The great hall was crammed in every part with working men , representatives of the metropolitan trades ; representatives of those trades sut on the platform ; on the same platform were several leading men of the Social Reform party j the chairman was Vansittart Ncalc . The meeting was unanimous , not only in its votes , but in the feeling that was manifest in the interesting field of human countenances , in the
spontaneous cheers that , came quick atid ringing from the breasts of the working men , on the instant recognition of every pregnant fact advanced by the speakers . The cruel effects of " cheapness , " its debasement of the working men and their dependents , its cheating of the purchaser in " scamping" work , were exposed . It will be perceived , however , that the object of these men is , as one of them Said , " not destruction , but construction . " That is tho point on which this contest differs
from others : it seeks to be self-supporting by being reproductive . The fairness , the ability , the moderation , displayed by the man who ought to be one of the first members that any working constituency puts into Parliament—the high and dignified sentiments put forth by-the other speakers , could not be surpassed—are seldom equalled . In a chivalrous courage , an unselfish generosity , a desire for the general good even more than individual gain , the working men set the true example to the degenerate " gentlemen" of our day , Here lies their strength : such men cannot be vanquished .
An infusion of that generous spirit is needed to make more than one political movement advance with equal vigour . The Parliamentary Reform Association had to contend with an untoward division of councils in that same hall the night before . The ^ Association is practical in its views , its leading men are active and steadfast , some of them are bold and generous in sentiment ; and yet it failed to possess that perfect mastery of the ground which the Amalgamated Society possessed .
We know that the contrast does scanty justice to the real promoters of the movement : but it is inevitable . It appeared from the reports of the delegates of the provincial associations that much active business is done by the society ; it is acquiring a useful influence ; but its influence ia not absolute , its business funds need recruiting . Its source of weakness is to be found in the more timid portion of its members , who evidently hold it back . Its success is always proportioned to its boldness : it was a remarkable characteristic of
the best speakers—we mean the most practical and hearty of its delegates , as well as its more professed orators—that they were almost uniformly the furthest advanced , many of them avowedly " Chartists . " What does that mean ? what does it not indicate ! The " intimate personal friend" of our Tory Foreign Secretary has been very busy carrying out
" another free and sincere expression of the pepple ' s will , " as the elections of Government nominees are culled , in the fine jargon of Nappleonism . " No compulsion , only you must , " familiarly describes the operation . On this occasion , however , it is only fair to say that the cynicism surpassed the hypocrisy of the proceedings . Lying is now a sacred principle of government in France . When the Jesuits shall have
fairly got hold of tho education of the country , this " sacred principle" will of course be applied " ad majorcm Dei glorinm . " For the present , it
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Leader (1850-1860), March 6, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06031852/page/1/
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