ABSTRACT
Indeed, Buchanan’s rhetoric harks back to classic radical voices from the first half of the nineteenth century in its claims that revolution on the part of labour against moneyed interests was at hand. The struggle—and a desperate and portentous struggle it is—which is going on between money and labour, and between wages and free trade, cannot possibly continue long without initiating a national convulsion. The sweeping changes which a parliament of pretended political economists—of cold-blooded men who repudiate all national sympathies—who legislate for purposes exclusively selfish—who call the whole world their family and disregard the poverty they have caused, and which the Almighty has permitted them to cause for infinite designs which will be consummated in their own destruction—these sweeping changes, the people say, will inevitably lead to grave and fatal consequences.
