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togetlier by any eloquence, adorned or unadorned^ 

 that ever was listened to in tlie House of Commons 

 or elsewliere. Directly on this peace-asserting free 

 trade J we have had certainly three of the most 

 bloody wars that ever raged between the nations 

 of the earth. In that mis-called centre of a boasted 

 freedom, America, men in civil war murdered each 

 other with a ferocity scarcely equalled ; England, 

 France, and Sweden had before assaulted Russia. 

 Prussia then marched over Austria, and afterwards 

 crushed the floAver of the chivalry of France, the 

 cry of '^ a Berlin" circumstantially adhered to by 

 French prisoners going to Berlin on coercion, 

 instead of conquest. To them a sad reverse to 

 their desires. 



This ^-crumpling up of nations" with the 

 mills of free trade, then, was an ^^ unadorned" 

 mistake; a ''mill" of more combative grind took 

 the place of grain, and garnished Imperial halls 

 witli trophies of anything l3ut universal peace. 



It is an egregious fallacy to suppose that men, 

 that nations, can be kept from fighting. Com- 

 bativeness is as much the gift of Em^jerors, as 

 mischief is the ruling passion of demagogues, or 

 theft the motive of the tliief. Nothing that human 



