The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 38
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The first four of these letters were sent to a friend in London, in the hope of thus securing their appearance in the Times. Replying to this suggestion, he paid, in effect, that that paper, in common with nearly all other English journals, was so hopelessly given over to the advocacy of free-trade doctrines as to make it wholly useless to offer them for publication. This will account to American readers for the delay that has attended their publication here.