Cobden and the rest of the Anti-Corn Law League believed in the view that cheap food meant greater real wages and Cobden praised a speech by a working man who said:

Cobden therefore believed that Free Trade would pacify the world by interdependence ( see Cobdenism ), an idea also expressed by Adam Smith in his The Wealth of Nations and common to many liberals of the time.

Cobden believed it to be morally wrong to lend money to be spent on war.

In an early December speech to his constituents, he condemned the British military preparations “ before we have made a representation to the American Government, before we have heard a word from it in reply, should be all up in arms, every sword leaping from its scabbard and every man looking about for his pistols and blunderbusses ?” Cobden joined with Bright by speaking at public meetings and by writing letters to newspapers, organizers of meetings that he could not attend, and influential people in and out of Britain.

However, when Cobden High School played for and lost the state basketball championship in 1964, this mascot became the pride of Cobden and Southern Illinois, showing the world what a small town could really do.

The mouth of the river divides the town into three areas: Blaketown, close to the river's mouth on the south bank ; Karoro, to the southeast, separated from Blaketown by a series of small estuarine lakes ; and Cobden, formerly a separate town, on the river's north bank.

" Cobden spoke some words of condolence, but " after a time he looked up and said, ' There are thousands of homes in England at this moment where wives, mothers and children are dying of hunger.

The children of the second marriage were faithfully brought up by Julia Lady Parkes and one of them, Cobden Parkes, born in 1892, eventually became the New South Wales Government Architect.

Whitewater Region is made up of the former municipalities of Beachburg, Cobden, Ross and Westmeath, which were amalgamated into the current township on January 1, 2001.

As a friend of William Morris, Cobden Sanderson was involved with the Arts and Crafts ideology and during a dinner party with the Morrises he was persuaded by Morris's wife Jane Burden to take up book-binding.

He worked a great deal with radical reformers such as Richard Cobden in organising peace conferences and in setting up schools and soup kitchens for the poor of Manchester.

Despite initial disagreements, after their failure their cause was taken up by the middle class Anti-Corn Law League founded by Richard Cobden and John Bright in 1839 to oppose duties on imported grain which raised the price of food and so helped landowners at the expense of ordinary people.

The village is named after British politician and free-trade advocate Richard Cobden, who visited the town in 1859.

Richard Cobden, a British MP of the time, describes the events conducted by the British under Sir John Bowring the day after the prisoners ' release given in a speech to parliament:

Though both the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary were thought to favor the Confederacy at the time of Alabama's construction, this position was against British public opinion and MPs such as Richard Cobden campaigned against it.

John Bright ( 16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889 ), Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League.

On December 25, 1861 at Lincoln's invitation, Sumner read letters he received from prominent British political figures, including Cobden, Bright, Gladstone, and the Duke of Argyll, to Lincoln's Cabinet.

This took place four years before the Cobden Treaty with France which is said to have effectively destroyed the British silk industry.

In 1850 Gould built a Post Office and named the fledgling settlement Cobden after Richard Cobden, a member of British Parliament whom Gould admired.

The Radical MP Richard Cobden as a young man studied The Wealth of Nations ; his copy is still in the library of his home at Dunford House and there are lively marginal notes on the places where Smith condemns British colonial policy.

* Richard Cobden, British manufacturer and politician

Cobdenism is an economic theory, focusing on the free market and free trade named for the British statesman and economist Richard Cobden.

The interment was attended by His Excellency Sir Derek Plumbly, KCMG, the then British Ambassador to Egypt ; Alan Cobden, the HM Consul-General to Alexandria at the time ; General Abdel Salam El Mahgoub, the Governor of Alexandria ; members of the crew of the HMS Chatham, and a descendant of Commander Russell.

Classical liberals generally opposed colonialism ( as opposed to colonization ) and imperialism, including Adam Smith, Frédéric Bastiat, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Henry Richard, Herbert Spencer, H. R. Fox Bourne, Edward Morel, Josephine Butler, W. J.

Writers such as John Bright and Richard Cobden opposed both aristocratic privilege and property, which they saw as an impediment to the development of a class of yeoman farmers.

Its first accommodation was at Cobden House on Quay Street, Manchester, in a house which had been the residence of Richard Cobden.

It was initially housed in a building on the corner of Quay Street and Byrom Street which had been the home of the philanthropist Richard Cobden, and subsequently was to house Manchester County Court.

Sir, the name which ought to be, and which will be associated with the success of these measures is the name of a man who, acting, I believe, from pure and disinterested motives, has advocated their cause with untiring energy, and by appeals to reason, expressed by an eloquence, the more to be admired because it was unaffected and unadorned — the name which ought to be and will be associated with the success of these measures is the name of Richard Cobden.

On the fourth night of the debate ( 3 March 1857 ), Lord Palmerston attacked Cobden and his speech as being pervaded by " an anti-English feeling, an abnegation of all those ties which bind men to their country and to their fellow-countrymen, which I should hardly have expected from the lips of any member of this House.

A group calling itself the Manchester Liberals, to which Richard Cobden and Richard Wright belonged, were staunch defenders of free trade, and their work was carried on, after the death of Richard Cobden in 1866, by The Cobden Club.

On the other hand, the commercial treaty with the United Kingdom which was signed in January 1860, and which ratified the free trade policy of Richard Cobden and Michel Chevalier, had brought upon French industry the sudden shock of foreign competition.

In 1875 he had published his Five Essays on Free Trade, which brought him an honorary membership of the Cobden Club, and in 1878 the government published his New South Wales, the Mother Colony of the Australians, for distribution in Europe.

Among the speakers were Cobden and Bright, and the dinner is memorable as the first occasion on which the two future leaders appeared together on a Free Trade platform.

Mr Ewart's motion was defeated, but the movement of which Cobden and Bright were the leaders continued to spread.

" In London great meetings were held in Covent Garden Theatre, at which William Johnson Fox was the chief orator, but Bright and Cobden were the leaders of the movement.

In the autumn of 1845 Bright retained Cobden in the public career to which Cobden had invited him four years before ; Bright was in Scotland when a letter came from Cobden announcing his determination, forced on him by business difficulties, to retire from public work.

" A few days later he set off for Manchester, posting in that wettest of autumns through " the rain that rained away the Corn Laws ," and on his arrival got his friends together, and raised the money which tided Cobden over the emergency.

In the entrance hall, which has a mosaic glass roof, and ground-floor Sculpture Hall are statues and busts of people who made significant contributions to Manchester, the Anti Corn Law campaigners, Richard Cobden and John Bright, and scientists John Dalton and James Joule among many others.

The middle class Anti-Corn Law League founded in 1839, led by Richard Cobden and John Bright, opposed duties on imported grain which raised the price of food to help landowners but harmed manufacturers.

Cobden was sent as Britain's representative to the negotiations with France's Michel Chevalier for a free trade treaty between the two countries.

Gladstone said " It was enough to make Peel and Cobden turn in their graves ".

The main developer of the Arts and Crafts style was William Morris ( 1834 – 1896 ), although the term " Arts and Crafts " was not coined until 1887, when it was first used by T. J. Cobden Sanderson.

During 1841 Sir Robert Peel became Conservative Prime Minister and Richard Cobden, a major proponent of free trade, was elected for the first time.

In nineteenth century Britain there was a liberal internationalist strand of political thought epitomised by Richard Cobden and John Bright.

Cobden Col was the outlet of this lake.

The government's policy was subsequently strongly attacked in the Commons on high moral grounds by Richard Cobden and Gladstone during a censure debate.

The vote of censure was defeated by 313 votes to 295, with Palmerston's old enemies in the pacifist camp, Cobden and Bright, voting for him.

His first wife, Ellen Cobden, was a daughter of Richard Cobden.

A magnificent speech by Macaulay heaping scorn on the " freedom of contract " arguments of Bright, Cobden and Pease was of immense importance in the debate but all the humanitarians – Shaftesbury, Oastler, Fielden and others were instrumental in securing passage of the Bill.

In 1866 he was elected professor of logic and mental and moral philosophy and Cobden professor of political economy in Owens college.