Excerpt from Richard Cobden and the Jubilee of Free Trade Richard Cobden lived to see less than twenty years of the half century which has brought us to the Jubilee of the Repeal of the Corn Laws. In his time neither the economic doctrine nor the political policy of Free Trade was seriously challenged after the triumphant return of the Free Trade Parliament of 1852. 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.