It is with the body politic
the Mountain,” sits so heavily and doggedly on their shoulderYes! in many things we are wiser. In arts and sciences; in inventions and machinery; in rendering all the conveniences and luxuries of N life more accessible to every classwhat progress has been made! Old as I am, I cannot, I will not denynay, with gratitude I acknowledgethat, with scarce an exception, things are better socially, morally, intellectually, religiouslybetter on the wholethan M in the merry days when we were young.” Would all this improvement have taken placewould the inventions, the discoveries, the giant strides in agriculture and manufactures have been made, except for the stimulus of adversity and distress? as with the individual. We have to agonize our way to peac But let us not because we perceive the manifest end of the chastening hand of God upon us, and humbly acknowledge its justice join thosewho persist in calling evil good, and good evil. It is necessary that evil come; but woe to them by whom it cometh! In His own good time, I will yet hope that the day may come when the commercial classes shall rise superior to that delusive jargon which, in spite of their convictions, seems ever getting the mastery of their natural judgment, or of their courage to avow their opinions, as to the real cause of that periodical incubus which weighs them and the working classes down to the earth; a day when class shall no more be arrayed against class, and which, among its other blessings, shall lighten the hours of toil to labour, and increase the workers share in his own earning”Emigrate ! Be off with you I There is little or nothing to be hoped for in England by such as youmen with horny hands and hungry stomachsEngland has too many of youget you gone! Your country is embarrassed with your presence, but is too bankrupt even to be able to ease herself by facilitating your departur” So says John Bright, the tribune of the people, the captain of the marching regiment of intellect, the great mouthpiece of vernacular eloquence, the chosen champion of.national progres He can only give you such counsel and comfort as anxious and excitable crowds usually receive.