ABSTRACT
According to Archibald Prentice the conference of ministers held in Manchester in August 1841 began with a circular issued by George Thompson, one of the main speakers for the anti-slavery movement. The manner whereby the demand for the repeal of the corn law was restated as a religious issue may be found in a hymn composed for the occasion and sung to the tune of ‘Old Hundredth Psalm’ at a tea party given by the Young Men’s Anti Monopoly Association for the conference. No event in modem times has so excited local attention, or created such general interest in the country, as the convention of Ministers of religion, from all parts of the empire, to consider the operation of laws restricting the food of the people. The deliberations of the Conference have closed, and the result is before the world.
