The Corn Laws
Tlie following a extracted frora n English Circular. Ãt tells rauny truths in few worda. There are lands teeming with plenty. - Tliere are nationswZZ offood. The Corn Laws keup limt lood trom the people ui j England. America has food iu abundanee. fi merca can send plenty to the people of England. In the far West of America ia a wide and beautiful country - immense quantities of wheat and meal are there ready to be seni to England. Vast plains of the richest ands are waiiing for cultivation. Jlailroada, and rivera, and lakes have opened up that mightv country, and havo brought it near to us. The Corn Laics shut out the people of England from that glorious granary. Fcr rrore than a hundred years the far West would fced wiih abundance ihe peo)le of England. From the far West plenty waits tocóme o every home in Engiand. The corn lans stand at every door and drive that plenty back. The corn laws force the gifis ol God from the people. America wants the work of Englishmen; the work that they can do at home. America wants the cottons, and si Ik?, and wollens of Englaod. The Americana havo abundance of wheat, and pork, and beef, to give iu excbnnge for manufactures. The corn laws won't let the people of England work for America. The corn laws won't let the people of America feed the people of England. The corn laws stop the demand for labor, and wou't lel the people of England earn high wages. Th o corn laws fight against trade. - The corn latos rust the machinery of En- jland, and tbrow away tho food of Ainerca. The corn laws leave waste the wide anda of the far West, and force lliejAmercaris to establish manufactures. The corn laws help slavery, and punish Veedom. The corn Iav9 rivet the fctters of the slave. Slave-grown cotton comes untaxed from America. Free-grown wheat is taxed nnd not 'et come. We trade wiih slavcholders whopay no wages. We trade with men whose slaves don't want our goods, because ihey get no wages. We dont trade with men whose f ree well-paid laborers do want our goods.A writer in the Liberty Standard s.s: Of iho 102,158 colnred persona in the Methodist church, about 80,000 are slaves and subjected toall the legal pojrtical, social, doinesiic, moral and religious disajilities, - to all tho hardships, privations, cruellies, poHulions and abandonments of American Slnvery, "the vilest that ever sawihesunT' These church members, of Chml's body, nre bought and eoid like cattlein the market! - huslmnds and wives oarents and children, brothers and sisters lorn fjom each other, and driven ofl like arutes, uoder the lash!- and to a very jreat exlent are denied the privilege of owning, reading, or even learning toread the bible! - and what is worse than uil the res, ifany ihing can be worse, i?, that the church to which these brethren belong, has after the example of their ungodly civil oppreásor?. denied them the right to assist in piirifying the church, the right to defend their own persons, chastity, families and lives, by witnessing ngaitis-t their white chriBtian (?) oppressjra in church trials!! And yet all this doublé refined cruelty, and high-handed iniquity fiuds a great many apologists and eupporiera in the non-slaveholdmg States, both among ministers and lav-men.
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Corn Laws
American Slavery
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Signal of Liberty