Excerpt from Recollections of Richard Cobden, M. P: And the Anti-Corn-Law League During a recent period of confinement by illness, the recollection of my early intercourse with Richard Cobden, and with the affairs of the Anti-Corn-Law League, were frequently and vividly crossing my mind; and, at length, I concluded to commit to writing some account of the proceedings in which I had been engaged, in order that my sons and daughters who are now living, and who at the time I have indicated were mere children, might derive some interest from a review of the stirring events of the period referred to. The narrative which I prepared, was shown to my friend Sir Thomas Bazley, Bart., M.P., and he expressed gratification to find that I had succeeded in placing on record many of the details of a struggle of national importance, the remembrance of which was in danger of passing away; and he strongly advised that I should arrange the subject in chapters, extend it, and allow it to be published. To this I have consented, and in offering it to the public, I desire to apologies for any apparent display of egotism, which, however allowable in a communication addressed to one's own family, is hardly so pardonable when addressed to the public generally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.