text:  What then says our neighbour and now most magnanimous ally? Is he willing--for they allege they have a superfluity--to supply us in this time of hypothetical distress--to act the part of the good Samaritan and pour not wine and oil but corn into our wounds? Is he about to take the noblest revenge upon a former adversary by showing himself in the moment of need a benefactor instead of a foe? Oh my Lord Ashley! you and others whose spirit is more timid than becomes your blood had better look ere you give up the mainstay of your country's prosperity--ere you surrender the cause of the agriculturist--to the _animus_ that is now manifested abroad