J. D. Hume epub Letters on the Corn Laws, and on the Rights of the Working Classes, Originally Inserted in the Morning Chronicle, Shewing the Injustice, and Also the ... the Proprietary Possession of the Lands of

These letters have already appeared in ihe Morning Chronicle at the respective dates affixed to them, and in the precise words in which they are now reprinted. The first of the number for they are not a series was the produce of a sudden thought suggested by the circumstance to which it refers :those that follow bespeak the manner of their growth, and evince too, in that growth, the danger of launthvj ingan extensive topic. If the efforts of an humble individual like myself could turn into a legitimate course the struggles, which the working classes are making in search as I would say, rather than in defence or in assertion of their rights, I should highly value my success. There is really nothing wanting to complete all the attainable comforts of which their situations are susceptible, except the free exercise of their rights ;and if they could be brought to claim that freedom, with half the zeal and energy with which they follow f Aphantoms or invade the freedom of others, they would soon experience the advantage of coming before the tribunal of public opinion ry with a good cause. N- The plain and strong truths with which these letters might arm them, whenever they should be disposed to employ such weapons, must escape from view and pass out of remembrance, if they have no other depository than the fugitive columns of a newspaper; and perhaps the same fate may await them in these pages: but I am urged to afford them this second chance. If 1had not believed that I could place before the public, in new and useful lights, some of i those important subjects which have so much agitated the country at Jvarious times, and which are still far from being at rest, neither those columns nor these pages would have been incumbered with my thoughts; and every reader will allow, that I could have had none of that temptation to write which often kad men, who are masters (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)