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"What shall bread-tax yet for thee , Pulaced pauper ? Elliott .
The landlords of this country are the tenants of the community . The land is not " their own . " It is legally the king ' s , ana in fact the people ' s . For what is the king but the principal " hired servant" of the people ? About a century and
a-half ago they " gloriously" dismissed this servant ; saying , " we will not nave this man to reign over us . " There can be nothing more unconstitutional than regal tyranny in England I This doctrine of the land not being the absolute property of the landlords of this country , is no chimera ; common sense declares it ; Blackstone and legal writers confirm it ; Locke and
constitutional writers demonstrate it . An acre of atmosphere cannot be inclosed , or a part of ocean dammed for the sole use and benefit of a caste ; then why should a portion of the " fair face of nature ? " Is it because William the Norman
conquered , and Henry , the " Defender of the Faith , " robbed , that the community lias to renounce its natural and indefeasible right ? No : — the earth is the Lord ' s , " and the common inheritance of his creatures : they cannot " dock the entail ! " 4 The possession of the land , " says a writer in the Oxford
Encyclopaedia , " is a concession on the part of society , —not a right . The end of this possession is the general good" Yes , the landlords are the tenants of the community , and this is their tenure . A short time ago , the mean average of the prices of wheat at Hamburgh , Amsterdam , Antwerp , and Stettin , was 28 s . Id .
per quarter ; in London the average price , at the same time , was 43 s . per quarter : that is to say , we paid our tenants , occupying our soil for our good , upwards of thirty per Cent , more for their wheat than we could have purchased it for of strangers ! And yet our tenants are in great distress ; our king has lamented their distress from his throne ; our representatives have responded to his lamentation ; and those
magnates of the land , who represent the hereditary principle , have re-echoed the agricultural moan ! Wretched landed interest , ruined under the panoply of protection , impoverished by the bounty of Providence ! While the committees of the legislature are examining into the causes of agricultural distress , it may not be utterly disadvantageous to inquire whether it is fust that the landed interest of this country should be protected by a duty on the importation of "foreign t ' orn .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1836, page 209, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2656/page/17/
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