text:  If that balance should little correspond with the bold and unscrupulous allegations of Mr Cobden--if it should be found to derogate from the assumed super-eminence of the foreign trading interest over the colonial let it be remembered that the invidious discussion was not raised by us nor by any member of the Legislature who can rightfully be classed as the representative of great national and constitutional principles; that the distinction and disjunction of interests both national with the absurd attempt unduly to elevate the one by unjustly depreciating the other is the work of the League alone which having originated the senseless cry of "class interests " would seem doggedly determined to establish the fact _per fas et nefas_ as the means of funding and perpetuating class divisions