BY HORACE GREELEY.
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BY HORACE GREELEY.


The work of Mr.. Atkinson is one OF
the most instructive and admirable that
has yet appeared on the important and
difficult subject Of Political Economy
difficult not so much in its essence or
in the nature Of its laws as in the appi-
cation of these laws to the dlssimilar,
complicated, varying circumstances OF
different nations and periods. The laws
educed by Mr.. Atkinson are so Just, SO
clear, so vital, and yet so strangely over
looked by those who arrogate to them
selves the title of the Political Econo-
mists in our day, and who resolve all
Political Economic Science into doing
nothing--of whose universe Somnus Is
God--and who elevate the maxim oil
the counter, Buy where you can cheap.
est to the summit Of attanable wisdom
and statesmanship. In their ewes the
cheapest possible production-con be-
ing the unerring standards the great
end of human effort; and he who is out
stripped in the headong race is doomed
to ruin and starvation by the law of en-.
vious strife and depressing competition
which they blasphemously represent as
the order Of Providence! These are
the views put forth by the Political
Economists enthroned in our Colleges
and Senates. as liberal and enlightened


at least, these are the inevitable re
suits from those views. 1t was needed
that The spacions fal.acies put forth by
these teachers should be scrutinized anc
confuted, aud this has been done in 8
mastery manner by Mr.. Atkinson. AS
an elementary on Political economy
as a retutallon of the doctrines of Free
Trade Understanding equal to his
work has ever appeared on either side
of the Atlantic. To the friends Of Amer
lean Industry, therefore, and to all wlc
regard the trade, the skillor experience