Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Second Letter on the Corn Laws: To the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
IN the former letter I addressed to you on the subject of the Corn Laws, I endeavoured to state as clearly as I could the general outline of the. Question; but I did not dwell upon par ticular points so much as perhaps the importance of the subject requires. This arose partlyi'rom being pressed in point of time; partly from the want of documents necessary to enable me to give greater weight to my statements; and partly from feeling thata short chapter, like a short speech, wherein the main principles are laid down, was more likely to attract general attention than one in which those principles were carried-out'at greater length to their natural conclusion. I cannot, however, but feel that much remains to be said on the subject; and that it becomes those who.
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