For �ix hundred years they say England groveled and groaned under the protective system. and only became "roastbeet. merry England under free trade. Sir. there is a crushing and demonstrative answer to thisan answer which appeals to the eye and needs no sophistry of argument to render it more effective. If England under free trade is happy. merry. prosperous England. then. sir. account to me if you can for the long train of emigrant ships that under her freetrade flag disembark annually their thousands of povertystricken emigrants on our shores. AVcount to me. if you can. for the pathways of human bones of her faminestricken subjects that cover the bed of the Atlantic. whose souls took flight from their hungerblighted tenements ere they could reach our tariffprotected shores. Sir.
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