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one authority says, labour would be cheaper, and 

 manufactured goods cheaper, another that labour 

 would be dearer and profits would be greater, there- 

 fore, that manufactured goods would be higher *_Two 

 of the authorities alluded to above, think that the 

 price of bread would be greatly reducedT fliajTthe 

 object of a free trade in corn is~to~eflecjjtois^ the 

 third, that a free corn trade would not effect the object. 

 Some of the advocates of free trade contend that there 

 would be so little difference in the price of grain, that 

 the growth of grain would only be discontinued on 

 the very worst soils, soils, by the bye, which would 

 soon become sterile if not cultivated according to a 

 system of alternate husbandry: some, that not only 

 the worst land, but all inferior land would be thrown 

 out of cultivation : some, that if it were, it would be 

 laid down to grass to grass for which it is not 

 adapted, and in which state it would soon become 

 unproductive ; perhaps not yielding sufficient to pay 

 the parochial rates to which it would be liable while 

 occupied, and yielding no employment for labour, 

 no profit, -no rent : some, as the author of " England 

 and America," that we should obtain corn so cheap 

 from abroad corn from Virginia, the production of 

 slave labour that it would not answer to grow it at 

 home, but still that the cultivation of no land would 

 be abandoned, but that it would be appropriated to 

 other productions, for which there would be an in- 

 stantaneous demand, and which would yield full em- 

 ployment to the labourer at higher wages ; more profit 

 to the farmer, and more rent to the landlord : some, 



