Report of the proceedings and speeches at the great public meeting ... 26th June, 1849 |
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African Slave Trade agitation agricultural interest agriculturists amount Association Bart believe British industry cause classes Cobden colonies compete confidence consequence corn laws cotton cries of Hear delusion distress Duke of Richmond duty effect empire employed employment England evils exports farm farmer feel foreign free trade free-trade friends gentlemen GEORGE FREDERICK YOUNG Grace the DUKE Honourable the EARL hope House of Commons House of Lords House of Peers INDUSTRY AND CAPITAL land landlord legislation London Loud cheers Loud cries M.P. Sir M.P. The Right Major BERESFORD manufacture MASTERMAN meeting ment navigation laws never noble lord objects parliament population present principles produce prosperity Provisional Committee question reduced repeal Right Honourable Right Honourable LORD ruin seconding the resolution Sir JOHN Sir Robert Peel Slave Trade taxes trust United United Kingdom voted wages of labour wealth
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Сторінка 24 - For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Сторінка 4 - ... is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. In search of wit these lose their common sense, And then turn critics...
Сторінка 22 - So far from its having suppressed the traliic, or promised to suppress it, it was concluded by the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry, that, although the squadron was in the very highest state of efficiency and discipline, the trade was " now conducted with an amount of organization, and with a degree of confidence in the success of its adventures, such as has never before been opposed to the efforts of the nations engaged in suppressing it.
Сторінка 22 - ... in the markets of Europe. " 9. That the admission of slave-grown sugar to consumption in this country has tended, by greatly increasing the demand for that description of produce, so to stimulate the African slave-trade, as to render an effectual check more difficult of attainment than at any former period. " 10. That the sufferings and mortality of the slaves in the barracoons and in the middle passage are appalling to humanity, and the intensity of the sufferings, and the amount of the mortality,...
Сторінка 16 - ... independent of foreign supply. Let the bread we eat be the produce of corn grown among ourselves, and, for one, I care not how cheap it is ; the cheaper the better.
Сторінка 22 - The report of 1848 declares : " That many estates in the British "West India colonies have been already abandoned, that many more are in the course of abandonment, and that from this cause a very serious diminution is to be apprehended in the total amount of production. That the first effect of this diminution will be an increase in the price of sugar, and the ultimate effect a greater extension to the growth of sugar in slave countries, and a greater impetus to slavery and the slave-trade.
Сторінка 22 - ... 8. That the extent and activity of the African slave-trade, though in some degree affected by foreign interference, and at times restrained by the exertions of the Governments of Cuba and Brazil, have been mainly governed by the demand for the products of slave-labour in the markets of Europe. " 9. That the admission of slave-grown sugar to consumption in this country has tended, by greatly increasing the demand for that description of produce, so to stimulate the African...
Сторінка 33 - Gramineae" — the last of the natural orders elaborated for the "Genera Plantarum": — " Much has been done, however, for the elucidation of the order in local Floras. Already at the close of the last century and the commencement of the present...
Сторінка 22 - ... this country has tended, by greatly increasing the demand for that description of produce, so to stimulate the African slave-trade, as to render an effectual check more difficult of attainment than at any former period. 10. That the sufferings and mortality of slaves in the barracoons and in the middle passage are appalling to humanity, and the intensity of the sufferings, and the amount of the mortality, are unexampled in the history of the slave-trade.
Сторінка 12 - He hoped the time would never come when the free-trade theory would be consummated ; "but should it please God in His anger that it should be effected, then would this great kingdom soon return to its normal and natural state — a weather-beaten island in a northern sea.