Excerpt from Some Account of My Life and Writings, Vol. 2 of 2: An Autobiography The evident and rapid progress of free-trade princi ples in the nation at this time, and their open adoption by the Government and the Legislature, induced me to embrace a proposal of Blackwood's to publish a selection from my articles in his Magazine, in which these doctrines were most firmly combated. Of course in so doing at such a time I closed the door against any chance of official or professional promotion from the Liberal party, whether Whig or Conservative, then to all appearance permanently installed in power; I also had no views, either to profit or popularity, in. 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.