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BOOKS Published by JOHN WATKINS , and Sold at No . 9 , BELL-YARD , TEMPLE-BAR . MEMOIRS of the TALENTS , VIRTUES , and MISFORTUNES of JAMES MYERS . 1 » . SCARBOROUGH TALES . 2 a . 6 d . LETTER to the LAWYERS . 6 d . " This is a very apirited expoae ' . " LAY SERMONS . 3 s . " A book of ability and laudable purpose . "— Tatt ' s Magazine . " You have dedicated to me one of the most beautiful books I ever read . The first sermon is a fine poem , all the better for being in prose—and 8 UCh prose ! With the exception of a few passages in Rousseau , I scarcely remember to haveread anything finer or more eloqaentJ '—Ebenezer Elliott . THE EMIGRANT . A Tale . 3 d . MEMOIR of CAPTAIN COOK . 6 d . MEMOIR of JOSEPH BOWER . 6 d . PADFOOT . . A Satire . 3 d . LIFE and CAREER of GEORGE CHAMBERS , Marine Artist . Written for the Benefit of his Widow and Orphans . Price 53 . JOHN FROST . A Play . 6 d . ADDRESS to the WOMEN of ENGLAND . The FIVE POINTS of the PEOPLE'S CHARTER SEPARATELY EXPLAINED and ADVOCATED- Id . " Every working man should read this tract . " — Northern Star . Preparing for Publication . WAT TYLER . A Play . Written before the Author read Southey ' s . 6 "d . THREE LETTERS to the Archbishop of Canterbury , on the Benefit of the Clergy . 8 < 1 . THE TOWN . A Poem , or Picture of the Pre-Bent System . 6 d . The PROGRESS of LIBERTY in ENGLAND ; from the Earliest Period down to the Present Time . 3 d . The GOLDEN AGE and the IRON AGE . With Minor Poems . 2 s . 6 d . NARRATIVE OF MY OWN IMPRISONMENT . 3 d . - , An ESSAY on INTEMPERANCE . Id . An ESSAY on EXCLUSIVE DEALING . Id . The POOR LAW MARTYRS . A Drama , 6 d . CHARTIST PRAYER BOOK ; with Hymns . Is . 6 d . N . B . —Chartists who desire little books withmuch matter , will find in the above list an armoury of short and double-edged weapons for the Cause .
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TO THE UNREPRESENTED , AND THE ELECTORS OF THE WEST-RIDING OF THE COUNTY OF YORK , p ENTLEMEN , —I am called upon by the nnani-IJ mous voice of a vast portion of your body , to offer myself as a Candidate to represent your Interests in Parliament at thB approaching election . I had not anticipated that you would confer upon so humble an individual as myself bo high a honour . I had hoped that this preference would have fallen to the lot of one of those Gentlemen , who , possessing qualities so superior to my own , are willing to serve you . But as you have thought fit to place me in this proud position , you may fully rely upon the exercise of my best exertioas , if elected , to regenerate our sinking , our falling country . Gentlemen , your choice has given the lie direct to the falsehoods propagated by the Times and Mercury , the two Whig organB of Leeds—namely , rf that you had discarded me for the part I took in the late Election at Nottingham . " It haa proved that I still live in your confidence ; that you have not changed your principles , as has been charged upon you by those calumniators who seom to regret exceedingly that you have thrown off the trammels of their party ; that you have commences business on your own account ; that you have opened your eyes to their duplicity ; that you cannat forget the promises made and broken during the period of their oppressions , and especially those during the agitation for " the Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill , " that it w&a only a step , and that so soon as by your aid they got it they would go on to the completion of reform , and to toe consummation of Universal Suffrage . How did they redeem their pledge t Why , so Boon as they obtained their pet measure , they turned round upon you and declared that reform had gone far enough ; charged you with being in poverty and rags—Baid that yon had not a Shilling of your own : that you were never satisfied ; that the Reform Bill was a " final" measure , and that you -would Tob those who had property . With a bold front they informed you that you were too ignorant , and consequently unfit , to possess the franchise . Yoa were wise enough and prudent enough while lifting the Whigs into power ; but as eoon as they were up , they kicked the ladder down , and there below you must remain , until you erect a ladder for yourselves and apply it to your own elevation . The same faction , by a new cry of" Cheap Bread , " and " Monopoly or no Monopoly , " intend again to delude and betray you into their meshes , in order to proceed onward in lowering your con dition still more , that they may compel you to continue to compete with foreigners , who , by comparison , are untaxed , while we are taxed to an unparalleled degree . They have unhesitatingly declared that their sole aim and objects are to lower the price of out goods , which can be done by no other means than lowering wages . A leading Member of the body , in his report of wages on the Continent , states that at Bonn , ou the Rhine , the wages are only fourpence halfpenny for twelve hours' labour ; and before we can successfully compete with them , wages in this country must be much lower ; because onehalf has to go in . tares : and when they caa make no profit by your labour they may give you a few days or a few weeks grace in the bastile before sending you to rest in your graves . The Poor Law Act was passed with the positive intention to compel the poor to live on a coarser kind of food . Continue the Whigs in office , and you will soon have none at all . And why this yell of" no monopoly" now 1 You must be aware with how small ceremony the Whig Government dismissed the mighty delegation of the Corn Law League , who were treated with scorn and indignity by the very men whom they are now , spaniel like , raising such a tutnnlt from the " Land ' s End to John O'Groats" to keep in ofBce . And have they given any public pledge to repeal the Corn Laws ? None whatever . They do not intend it ; they are tnemselveslanded proprietors , and areas much opposed to the repeal as any of their more honest opponents . Their end and their aimi s to enforce the New Poor Law , the Rural Police , and the full measure of continental centralisation ; in fact , to uproot the last vestige of the small remnant of liberty remaining to us . Had they been honest in any beneficial declaration , they would have commenced the work of economy , retrenchment , reduction of monopolies , and the eradicating of every oppressive measure , when they took the reins of Government . Had they , instead of making puny reductions oftaxes , part of whichhad lately been imposed by themselves upon principles of the highest refinement , viz ., of taxing the taxes ; had they then commenced and carried out real retrenchment , when they were backed by large majorities , instead of making false professions when their " occupation ' s gtine , " when they have sunk down to a minority and can effect nothing;—in skort , had they been virtuous and honest men , they would now , instead of being held in scorn , contempt , and derision by every benevolent and intelligent being in the country , stand upon the proudest pinnasle of fame , enjoying the prayers , the blessings , aud the gratitude of all , and would have been handed down in the pages of history as the greatest benefactors of the human race . What a mockery it is now to tell us what they would do for us ! and how deplorable it is to find so many who endure so mneh from their misrule , from ignorance and self-interest , following and supporting the vile faction 1 moreespecially as i t isjiel ^ -evident that what it has promised would constitute an evil—aa injury instead of an advantage—to themselves . Those aen ( the Whigs ) gave twenty millions to themselves and others , as the price of our fellow-creatmres—as a remuneration for the restoration t& liberty of those human beings , whom they had stolen from the coast of Africa ; and this while tens of thousands of white slaves remained , and still remain , in a worse condition tb . au those black slaves who have been emancipated . They have added largely to the public burdens during their period of office , and that , too , while we had all but perfect peace ; the almost only foreign ' kirmisb . being againBt the inoffensive Chinese . ^ "Ui for what ! To compel them to pay for bat ' - prohibited intoxicating artiole opium , which ai i > een smuggled by our merchants into their ( tho Jaines * ^) country . Certainly , war upon Bnch aborrent pretensions never took place Binoe the orea-Lon of ii > world . While tet 1 *<« tnousandswere starving , they granted o the Queen' Do wager oae hundred thousand pounds
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LEEDS BOROUGH SESSIONS . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That the next General Quarter Sessions of the PKAcefor the Borough of Leeds , in the County of York , will be holdeu before Thomas Flower Ellis the Younger , Esquire , Recorder of the said Borough , at the Court House , in Leeds , on Wkdnesdat , th # Seventh Day of July next , at Two o'Clock in th « Afternoon , at which time and place all Jurors , Constables , Police Officers , Prosecutors , Witnesses , Persons bound by Recognisances , and others having business at the said Sessions , are required to attend . And Notice is hereby also Given , That all Appeals not previously disposed of will be heard at the opening of the Court , on Friday , the 9 th day of July next , and that all Proceedings under the Highway Act , will be taken on the First Day of the Sessions . By Order , JAMES RICHARDSON , Clerk of the Peace for the eaid Borough . Leeds , lOtli June . 1841 .
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OLD PAKE'S LIFE PIXXS . MORE PROOFS that this noted Medicine will restore to health the afflicted , and continue ia sound health the recovered . Read the following from a soldier , discharged from her Majesty ' s service as in curable , after having the advice of the most celebrated physicians : — 11 To the Proprietors of Old Parr'B Pills . "Gentlemen , —I feel it a duty I oweio you and to the Publio at large , U acknowledge the astonishing benefit I have reoeived from taking 'Old Parr ' s Pills . ' I was for nearly nine years in the 52 nd Regiment of Foot , but waB discharged in the yeai 1839 as incurable , after having the best advice her Majesty ' s service afforded , being pronounced consumptive ; I then returned home to Hinckley , where my attention was attracted to Old Parr ' s Pills I was induced to purohase a 2 s . 9 d . box , and from that moment I date a renewal of my life ; for on taking one box , I immediately began to recover , and two <« . 9 a . boxes more Completely cured me . " I am , yours most obediently , W .. T -r . " J ° OSBORN . " Witness—James Burgess , Bookseller , &c . &c amokley , *' The following extraordinary case of cure h » B been KB ^ ftSsJ *" ' g 0 ° ' " " Mis . Joseph Simpson , Church Hill Close , Old ^ enton , near Nottingham , has been severely afflicted tor the . last thirty ' years , with a violent cough , and difficulty of breathing . The affliction haa been so severe that she could not fulfil her osoal domestic obligations . She took cold when only fifteen yearl t i' S . Mi ^* n 6 Ter left her m » l » e took Pan * Ll 5- ? llIs * J ^® , 1 "" 1 tried almost every kind oi medicine , and . had taken laudanum in largo quantities , but nothing afforded relief . H - ftn heard of Paw's Pillg . boat last Christmas and as soon m ah © had token about half a box riu f n ? Ji er ^ If «»» PIetely "" red , and wm n « e affected Jn _ th « . slightest manner during theaever weather that followed , and is now better in ££ ' than she has ever been in her life . f » . ? l ! t ? U / r Oe 8 i ^ e 2 d aPPear miradaZouB , bnt foi the satwfaohon of the most incredulous , she ba kmdlyconsentedto answer any inquiriesreitSrbv personal application or by letter , addwsWd « * M * Joseph Simpson , Church Hill Close , Old Son /' Two remarkable cases ( selected from manvoth ««>> SWWtf to * £ Noble BooksX Sd ¥ S 23 , Maiket Place , the Agent for Hnlh
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MEDICAL ADVICE . MESSRS . WILKINSON AND CO ., SURGEONS , No . 13 , Trafalgar-street , Leeds , and 34 , Prinee Edward-street , Fox-street , Liverpool , HAVING devoted their Studies exclusively for many years to the successful treatment of the Venereal Disease , in all its various forms ; also , t » the frightful consequences resulting from that destructive practice , "Self Abuse , " may be Personally Consulted from Nine in the Morning till len at Night , and on Sundays till Two . Attendance every Thursday at No . 4 , Georgestreet , Bradford , ( from Ten till Five . ) In reoehtcasea a perfect Cure is completed within a Week , or no Charge made for Medicine after that period , and Country Patients , by making only one personal visit- will receive such Advice and Medicines that will enable them to obtain a permanent and effectual Cure , when all other means have Tailed . They hopethat the successful , easy , and expeditious modethey have adopted . oferadicatingevery symptom of a certain disease , without any material alteration in diet , or hindrance of business , and yet preserving the constitntion in full vigour , and free from injury , will establish , their claims for support . As thia Disease is one which ia likely to be contracted whenever exposure takeB place , it is not like manj other visitors , once in life , but , on the contrary , one infection may scarcely have been removed , when another may unfortunately be imbibed <} therefore , the practitioner requires real judgment in order to treat each particular case in such a manner aa not merely to remove the present attack , but to preserve * the constitution unimpaired , in case of a repetition at no distant period . The man of experience can %% lJ " msel J ° i i . g ^ test improvements in modern practice , by being able to distinguish between discharges ^ a specific and of a simple or mild nature , which can . only be made by one in daily practice after due coasideration of all circumstances In the same manner at birth , appearances often take place in children , which cafi for a proper knowledge and acquaintance with the disease , in order to discnminate their real nature , and whiob may bethe means of sowing domestic discord , unless managed l > y the Surgeon with propriety and akilL Patients labouring under this disease , cannot he too Vh «^ * ° whose handa they commit themselves . L f I i ? * 7 0 f thl 3 remark is abundantly mani-Sfff / c the 8 ? m ?* y frequently passing the ordeal of several practitioners , before he is fortu-S ? £ 2 ? JA 0 btail 1 a P « rfe ^ ™ . The foUowing th ? n EJ ^ a 6 many . ^ Ptoms that distinguish this disease :-A general debility ; eruption on the JAl ^ i ?^ WlJ ulcerated sore throats bonSin « pJ g ! \ athe - neck > nodes on the ahin vSktS ! ° * n e | 8 ' fi 3 tu I » . Paius in the bead and limbs , &c ! &o * ffe * uently mistaken for rheumatism ) C&ft ^'^ l ? - ' 8 inT" « bIe rule is to give a E ^^ ssa ^ ewag veaientfv SSSu ° M atU > a 0 L tho 8 e who ««»** «» - iS ^ . sasswsissi'ss tb j » wl « ., mu 1 , « . » the toirtoigjSri tad . Jb . Hmtok , 7 , Bri ™ tes »¦* to . StoMo ^ Kto ^ fflo , , Lee * ,, Mr . H *» TnsT , I BookMUer N , H 41 ifer H ' S ' ttSSKS \ ir % « t > ° ! ld ™""" - || S 5 ?» 4 teg i ^ ZlTAft ^^ h * - SSSWasa ** . slffiBB 8 ** " - ^^^ ^^ Lord Steeet , Liverpool . toi * tto 9 AdVertuer O& * tUyft !* e , H « IL
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Mr . Plaxton , of Cottingham , five miles from Hull , bad long been afflicted with » most seven internal disease . So dreadful were the paroxysms that be frequently ^ pooled death was at hand to release him from his suflerings . For a great length of time he bad been unable to sit down at all , evta being compelled to stand at hia meals . His next door neighbour having heard of the virtues and unprecedented success of " Parr ' s Pills , " purchased a small box for him , and en his calling for a second box , he told me that 8 uoh had been the astonishing effects produced by one box , he was able to sit doum , ajrid on taking two other boxes , his pains have left him ; his appetite is good , and he is able to follow his vocation nearly as well as he has ever been in his life . Mrs . Shaw , wife of Mr . Shaw , yeast dealer , had been for a great length of time afflicted with a severe internal disease . To use his own expression ,, " paying doctors for her had beggared him , so thai at last he was compelled to send her to the Infirmary ; there she received no permanent benefit . Having heard of "Parr's Pills , " he purchased a small box ; she began to mend immediately on taking them , and ttro more boxes hav * cured her . She is as well as she ever was in her life . Mrs . Stephenson , of Cottingham , fife miles from Hull , has been severely afflicted with a bad leg for more than ten yeara , and during that period has tried all kinds of medicines , but without any permanent relief . After taking four small boxes of Parr ' Pills , she is able to go about her day ' s business in a manner which for comfort has been unknown to her for above ten years . . Signed , Edmdnd Sx £ phenson , her Son . Witness—Joseph Noble , Hull , May 8 , 1841 . " To the Proprietors of Parr's Pills . " Mrs . Ann Lamb , of Haddington , in the Parish of Auborn , bought two small boxes of Parr's Pills , at your Agent's Medicine Warehouse , Mr . James Drury , Stationer , near the Stone Bow , Lincoln , for her son Jesse , who was suffering yery badly from Rheumatism in the hands , knee ? , and shoulders ; he is seventeen years of age , and in service , but was obliged to leave his place from the complaint . The two boxes completed a cure on him , and Mrs . Lamb bought a third box of Mr . James Drury , last Friday ^ for him to have by him , and to take occasionally . He has now returned to his place , free from Rhen » matism . . " This statement , by Mr . Rob t . Lamb , and Ann , hf a wife , parents of the youth , is given that others may benefit by those invaluable Pills , Old Parr , and they will willingly answer any enquiries , and feel very thankful for the good they have done to their son . " Lincoln , April 17 , 1841 . This Medfcine is sold by most respectable Medicine Venders in the United Kingdom , in Boxes at Is . lid ,, 2 s . 9 d ., and lla ., duty included . The genuine has "Parr ' s Life Pills ' engraved on the Government Stamp .
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BEJGHTOX *—The following wu omitted in oar last for want of zoom : —A public meeting of the Chartist electors and others of the Borough of Brighton ms held at the Artichoke Ian ; Mr . John Good in . the chair ; for the purpose of receiving Mr . Chtrles Brooker , as the Chartist candidate for Brighton . Mr . Brooker delivered an address fall © f Boand argument , and feelingly energetic Tbe following resolutions were then adopted : — " That , in the opinion of this meeting , it is highly desirable , that in the present election as » any cafididates in ill © working man ' s interest should be obtained * S possible , and Charles Brooker , Esq ., by his untiring teal in the eaose of the poor Ein merits our entire confidence ; and that we pledge ourselves to
support the said gentieman in the contest for Brighton . " ** Thai this meeting earnestly call on all really independent electors to co-operate with the Chartist elector ' s committee on behalf of Mr . C . Brooker . " Mr . Brooker , in a printed address to the electors , gajs . _ " As to my political principles—should I hare the honour , through yon , of a seat in the British Parliament , my design is , respecting my Parliamentary procedure , to advocate—believing their adoption would tend in a very great degree to the benefit of the nation and realm of Great Britain—the prineiples contained in that which is denominated the People ' s Charter ; namely , Universal Suffrage , Eqnal District Voting , no Property Qualification for
Members , Annual Parliaments , Payment of Members , and Tote by Ballot . At the samo time , I trust I should advocate the cause in the same manner , relative to every measure I considered would benefit the British nation . And , respecting Universal Suffrage , I consider it a sound maxim ; and , as to going to that point—thai in proportion as yon extend the Suffrage you give security to Property And , as from the state this country is at present in , I cannot think that property in the nation is altogether safe ; I do earnestly entreat all that possess property therein j—be it much or little- ^ olosely , * ndfor themselves , to think over , or investigate the soundness or unsoundoess of this maxim . "
XOOTTRAJS . —Mr . Butterworth , from Manchester , lectured at the Chartist Meeting Room , Hollingwortb , oa Thursday , the 24 th instant , and entered at great length into a discussion of tke disturbances that was t&kiBg piace in this and other parts of the country , showing in a clear and lucid aianner toe interest the Whig and Tory - factions had in keeping the working class at variance with each ofher . He concluded a very animated and spirited" lecture by exhorting the working class to join heart and fcand together for the Charter , and no surrender .
1 OKDON . —The Democrats here complain of iaviBgbeendnpedby&omepersonrcpresenting himself as s Chartist in distress . They passed % resolution at ! their meeting , last Sunday evening , not in future to relieve parties nnder euch circumstances , "without first having satisfactory proof of the truth of their statements ; and they recommend a like course to « 11 other Chartist Associations . 6 AINEBOROT 7 GH . —The corn crakes , after cackling here till nobody would listen to them any ; longer , rounded off the the period with a petition , , which they procured to be signed by all the little koys they could prevail npon , and all the pot-house tipplers whom a pennyworib . of ale would purchase , j and then-put it forth as the petition of " 800 of the zoost respectable tradesmen of the town of Gain 3-i borough . " A printed protest against this " enormous lie" has been issued , signed by a large number of chief merchants and tradesman of the town .
STOCfCPORT ^—Oa Sunday evening , a numerously attended meeting was held in the Association Boom , B&mbert Brow , Mr . John Wright was called to tae -ebair , who , after miking & few remarip upon paanag events , called upon Mr . Griffin to read the instructions given by Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., in the Star -of last week , to be observed by the electors and nonelectors in behalf of Chartist candidates . During the leading of the letter be was interrupted several times by the pteadits of the assembly , and at the conclusion tbey showed their approbation of the writer , and the sentiments contained in the article , by cheers hearty , l » nd , and long . Mx . Chappell wu next called upon to address the meeting . Be commenced by remarks npon the honesty and integrity of Mr . Biirsto w , the Chartist
-candidate for this borough , aad ami passing an ealo ginm upon him , proving that he was decidedly the best in the field , hoped the working classes and the Chartist electors would do their duty in the coming week , in rendering him that support which his ( Baintow ' s ) conduct towards the working classes had merited . ( Cheen ) The speaker then went on to show what he- conceived to be the real cans * of the poverty and misery every where abounding in Great Britain . Many supposed , said he , that it was ia consequence of there not being a sufficiency of employment , whilst others attributed it to the operation of the Corn Liws ; another set of qoaet politicians said that it was brought about by over population ; and a fourth party would say that the great evil was the improvement is machinery
supplanting nvmmd labour . WeU , then , he would proceed to txuaine the above propositions , and see if possible whether the cause of distress esnld be traced exclusively to either of them . He al tray * contended , Sot hi * pact , ainc * ho knew anything at all about the jmblie aSEaira oftinM mighty empire that the foundation , the root of the evils was class legislation , and that all other evils of which the working classes had to complain , emanated from and were the effecU of , that monstrous , and ail engrossing fertDe jcource of corruption . { Hear , heir . ) He ( Mr . C . ) believe * that so long as the working classes remained in their present helpless condition—so long as the capitalist had protection for-his . capital through the rnsdinm of laws of his own making , and so long as he had the power to grasp and grind as
much as he could from the blood , bones , and sinewi of the labouring portion of the community— so long as it was in the power of a cotton lord or landlord to tell bis hands that he was about to take two shillings off theli wages on a Saturday night , and they ithe handa > having mo power to resist it—so long as the capitalists could take five shillings from the working r ^ n by reducing his wages , and so long as the reealt would be if the same person only took one ounce of stinking cotton from his employers , thai he would be sent to prison for a month , in a word , so long as the foundation of every tiling Taiaable in society , namely , labour , was unprotected so long would the earns effects continue more or less to show their foul and demoralising character through the length and breadth of the land . Misery and starradon was not only the lot of the unemployed , bat tkere were , aorry was he to say , and ashamed the Government ought to be to give him cause for saying
it—thousands , nay , teas of thousands , who had as muchwork as they could possibly do—thousands there were likewise who were actually overworked , so much so that their Eves were no pleasure to them , having to be tied to one system of slavery and drudgery from Monday moraing till Saturday night , and in that same way from years end to years end , though they did work in that manner , yet they could not earn enough to snpply the cravings of hunger , or cover their nakedness . He could ge into districts where there were jatn who had never had a new suit of clothes during the Whole period of their liyes—families , oat of whom there were three or four workers , whose -wages put together would not amount to more than ten shillings per week ; therefore , the miseery , poverty , and distress of those people were not caused by the want of employment , bat , on the contrary , they were worked too » uch , sad eat -too-little , and wore too little : the
real cause was their not being h »? f paid for what they did do ; so that it was starvation , slavery , and hunger , When in work , and n » t much worse when out of work ; so much , then , for the fallacy of the Com Law repsalers . in statin ? , . that ihe starvation and distress was cause ! by the want of employment The second proposition upon which he intended to treat was , the operation of the Corn Laws . Thousands upon thousands were in the greatest distress imaginable ia the year 1818 , and complained of the Corn Laws , and assisted in the agitation of their repeal . Bat what part did tha manufacturers take at that time ? Did they take the working man by the hand and join 5 n tbe ry for a big loaf ? ( No . ) But most of them called them disa&ete 4 and rebellious , and persecuted poor
Hunt , and massacred the people on the field of Peter loo . ( Hear , hear . ) " Oh , " said they , " we can compete with ths worid . " But that , said Chappell , -was in their days of prosperity—when they were building thsir stately mansions and -splendid palaces ; that was when they were erecting their large factories aad Ailing them with aachinery ; that -was when they were adding house to bouae , and field to field ; that was when tbey coold attend the caoa-cootsetnd gambling hella ; that was wh ^ n the cotton manufacturers of Cheshire and lAnraffhire realised profits to the tone of £ l 5 , 000 , eoo In one year , the wand of free bade was never heard from the months of the mushrooa politicians who are
bow shouting so testily against the Corn Laws . Free trade , in tke way the Plagoe were advocating , was one of the greatest humbugs that was eier bronght before the public . Here the speaker contrasted the expenses « t the governments of those countries , the national debts ( if any ) , the wages of the operatives , < kc , against Which this country had to compete ; and since they had the same opportunity to manufacture , and ceold work heir mills by water , and save tea pounds oat of every in 10 s ., that is , that the same power wiuch woaJd cost £ 12 10 s- by stean ia Bojlaad , would only cost £ i les , by water , on the coatiaest , or in Germany , Aastria , Russia , or the United State of America . The
« xpene «* » f freightage wen leu ; and the wage * of the speraJavtti were not more than 2 s . Si in many places . Thowagaia , tke Gorenmsnt expenses of America did * &t amount to £ 20 , 008 per amnum , and tke President did not receive a » re than £ 4 , 0 # 0 a year . The Queen of England had for her disposal £ 47 » , 000 per annum , Which was as much as would pay the President of America for more thaa two hundred and fifty years , to say nothing of the loesl taxes , the State Church , the Kational Debt , the Pension List , tke secret service laosey , aad the paupers and pensioners , which had U Be kept by the industrious people of Great Britain . i % ? l ^ ' v *^ . Cisx PPeil siid he was favourable to free trade : mi it was « ii bumbog , so long as there was no reduction of the great salaries and pensions of the vagabonds and idlers , who feed npon the labour of others . He would have tree trade with the Ionia , dak « , attd # q * i « es-. &e would cany
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out the Bcripture to the Tery letter—namely " the labourer ia worthy of his hire . " And he that will not wwi should not eat ( Cheers . ) Me . CnappeU sbM he thought a great many of the free trade brawlers womld not fall in with that doctrine . The speaker then showed by figures , according to the authority of the repealers themselves , the small amount of the manufactured goods that were exported to foreign countries when put in comparison with what was eonmmed at home , and asked whether it would not be more prudent for 4 Ve free traders to encourage the borne market by giving better wage * to the labouring classes , and enabling them to psrehase and eonsume the goods . He ( the speaker ) said , the present standard of W 0 » t WU OQntnmed in ibis country was no fair criterion to go by , and argued that if the people bad better wages , nearly
double the quantity would be called for . ( Hear , bear . ) He then asked his hearers how aany c hintz dresses their wives had had tince they were married ? he wenld be bound there were none In his presence whose wives had worn even one since they were married , and they were the very goods which paid best the workman , the Government , and the shopkeeper . The gambling and speculating propensities of tha cotton lords , and their competition with each athex caused them to put more machinery into work thaa was required , and the consequence was that they glutted beth the foreign market , threw thousands of people out of employment , and ruined the home market , ; hence it was when they saw the gulph into which they had fallen , that they raised the cry of repeal of the Corn Laws . There were now power to the amount of one hundred million .
These powers which lay doimant , which ceuld at any moment be brought into requisition if there should be a greater demand for goods . Then Egain machinery was being improved every week , both at home sai abroad . Then who would say that if the cotton masters to-morrow were to hare orders for all the goods they could make for the next month , that tbey v would not use every effort to bring all the machinery they could into play , to save manual labour , and deprive the working classes of any benefit . Mr . Chappell then folly entered into the subject of the Repeal of the Corn Laws , and exploded the fallacies which have been so impudently put forward by the exporting manufacturers . He was for the Repeal of the Corn Laws when there was some guarantee for the working classes receiving the benefit of such repeal .
At the present time , even admitting that the tax npon each "inn was 8 d . per week , which was as high as it could be , allowing each man to eat 2 s . worth per week , what benefit would the working classes receive if the masters took two shillings from their wages , as tbey bad done a short time back ? ( Hear , hear . ) CUeap bread meant cheap labour . Earl Fitzwilliam , Munti , Villiers , Greg , and others of the most respectable advocates of repeal , declared that the real objeet of repeal was to reduce wages to enable them to compete with foreigners . He contended , therefore , that the repeal of the Com Laws would not be a panacea for the e-riis -which afflict the working classes . Having expressed himself upon that part of his Bubject , he would say a word or two in refereisce to those Malthusian rascals who prats about our population . All he had to
say about that , there was plenty of everything both to eat and to drink for double the number yet in existence ; the warehouse * and shops were full of clothingthe granaries were full of corn ; there are plenty of hats , shoes , coats , &c , only tbey were not come-at-able , and when there was any danger to be anticipated from over-population . If he could rule , he would Bend those who had fed themselves fat out of other people's earnings to the bastUes . He would send all those who were too lazy to work there ; and those who had robbed the people of their land and prevented it from being cultivated for the sustenance and comfort of God ' s sons and daughters , for whom it was sent He would likewise send all the advocates of the Malthusian doctrine and let them taste the sweets of a baatile , by having their food weighed to them—by being stut op and installed
like felons—by being parted from their wires , —and when they had been there a considerable time he would go to them and ask them whether they liked the system ? He would be bound , their aeal would be a little cooled ; they would be of a different opinion , and their language would be , " Let all the land be properly cultivated ; let all the appliances possible be put in full force ; let there be a proper and equitable distribution of wealth ; let all means be tried to prodnce enough ol food and clothing , and let it be fairly and justly dealt out . " And then if they found there was not enough for every human being in existence , then , and not till then , would it be time to think about bastiles , or disturb their brains about over-pepulation . ( Hear , hear . ) Then there was his last proposition—namely , machinery . Some said that machinery was one of the greatest
corses ; while others , who did not extend their view so far , said it was the only evil . As it was at the present appl ied , instead of its being a benefit to the working classes , be would rack it as one of their greatest enemies ; but , under a proper system ef society , it might be turned to a bleuiag . Ob that point , he trusted he need not say much among a manufacturing audience . Machinery was supplanting manual labour and sending the people into the streets to starve , banishing thousands to seek refuge in a distant country , reducing the wages of the operatives , who are employed , consequently bringing misery and starvation to thousands of families , taking or rather preventing the money from comin § to the shopkeepers" till , and in proportion as trade demand and exports increase in the same ratio , have the wages of the operatives decreased ? It had
injured cottage property , and besides doing many other things alike injurious to the nation . It had put it out of the power of the labouring classes to purchase taxable articlas ; and it had caused the Chancellor of the Hxcheqqer , to find that there was a screw loose . He had touched upon the four points which many say was the cause ot the distress prevailing in Great Britain ; and , he thought , he need not take up mnch time to prove that they were only effects which sprung from class legislation . The argument lay in a nut shell . There is as plenty of food and clothing , and work t « 0 , if every one did his share ; bat in the present strange anomaly of things many were -worked nearly to death , while others were wholly idle , and it would do them more good than the physicians were they compelled to work .
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\ From the London Gazette of Friday , June 25 . j BANKEXJPT 8 . I George Aldred , Southampton-row , Bloomsbury , bookj seller , to surrender July 2 , at eleven , Aug . 6 , at twelve , I at the Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-street Solicij tor , Mr . Bridger , Finsbury-circus ; official assignee , Mr . i Cannan , Finsbury-square . i John Shury and James Sbury , Cbarter-house-street , engravers , July 6 , at one , Aug . 6 , at two , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Basinghall-atTfcet Solicitor , Mr . Lloyd , s Cheapside ; official assignee , Mr . Whitmore , Basing-I hall-street t Martin Hyppolite Bellemoise , Pomroy-street , Old Kent-road , manufactariHg chemist , July 1 , at one , Aug . 6 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , BasinghaU-street Solicitors , Messrs . Willoughby and Jaques , Clifford ' s Inn ; official assignee , Mr . Green , Aldermanbury . William Mead and Jacob Stower , Thorney , Somersetshire , merchants , July 8 , Aug . 6 , at eleven , at the | Langport Arms Inn , Langport . Solicitors , Messrs . | Stone and Symonds , Dorchester ; and Mr . Stone , Chani eery-lane .
John "Wrigglesworth , Leeds , cheese factor , July 7 , at ten , Aug . 6 , at two , at the Commissioners" Rooms , Leeds . Solicitors , Mr . Heald , and Messrs . Dunning and Stawman , Leeds ; and Messrs . Bell , Bredrick , and Bell , Bow Churchyard . Maria Louisa Jones , Tredegar , Monmouthshire , victualler , July 8 , Aug . 6 , at eleven , at the Westgate Hotel , Newport Solicitors , Messrs . Simpson and Moor , Farnival ' s Inn ; and Messrs . Morgan and Batt , Abergavenny . Henry Sidebotham and Thomas Lewis , Manchester , cotton-manufacturers , July 10 , Aug . 6 , at ten , at the Commissioners' Rooms , Manchester . Solicitors , Messrs . Walmsley , Keightley , and Parkin , Chancery-lane ; and Messrs . Humphrya , Cunliffea , Charlewood , and Bury , Manchester .
John Parker , Manchester , eotten-sptnner , July 15 , Ang . 6 , at two , at the Commissioners' Rooms , Manchester . Solicitors , Mr . Smith , Chancery-lane ; and Messrs . Shuttleworth , Holgate , and Roberts , Kocnciale . Benton T > awes , Asbby-de-la-Zoucb , grocer , July 6 , Aug . 6 , at twelve , at the KiDg ' s Head Hotel , Loughborough . Solicitors , Messrs . Fisher and Sherwin , and Mr . Davrs , Afhby-de-la-Zouch ; and Messrs . Parker , Taylor , and Rooke , Raymond-buildings , Gray ' s Inn . John ealverley , Knaresboronsb , corn-miller , July 6 , Aug . 6 , at-eleven , at the Guildhall , Yerk . Solicit « rs , Mr . Fiddey , Paper-buildings , Temple ; and Mr . Richardson . Barxeg&te .
PIS 6 OLCTI 0 KS OP PARTNERSHIP . T . Tkkers and W . Senior , Shaw , Lancashire , wheelwright * . J . Ainsworth , J . Schofifcld , and J . Stanley , Oldham , Lancashire , coal-miners ; as far as regards J . Ainsworth . J . Greenwood aid J . Smalley , Chorley , Lancashire , corn millers . H . b ^ malley and W . Cams , Blackburn , Lancashire , grocers .
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? From the Gazette of Tuesday , J ** e 28 . iUKKEFrXg . . Thomas Collinson , boat-bailder , Wal efield , to surrender July ie , at twelve , aad Aug . 19 > ** tern , at tha CommisnoaerB ' . rooms , Leeds . Bolicito «» Adlington , Faulkner and Follet , Bedford-row Iioadon ; Wilby , Wakefield . ' Thomas Snowden , grocer , North ghields , No . ' ^ b - * mberiand , Jaly 23 , at eleven , and August If , at two at the Bankrupt Commission-room , Newcastle ui y > Um Tyne . Solicitor * , litmus , Fenchurch-buildings 1 *^ - aon ; Medcalf , North Seields ; Salmon , South Shields . Charles Butt , merchant , Somerton , Somersetshire , Inly 14 , aad Aug . 10 , at twelve , at the Swan Inn , Wells , Somersetshire . Solicitors , Tenuing , Naylor ind Bybins , Tokenbouae-yard , London ; Chitty , Sbaftefr yarr .
Luke Palfreyman , serifener , Sheffield , July 2 , and ug . 10 , at twelve , at the Town Hall , Sheffield . jUdtors , Tattershall , Great St James ' s-atreet , Bed-• rd-row , London ; Smith , or Hoole and Marplea heffiald .
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% year , and two or three palaees to reside in , making 5 » e old lady ' s inwme above abore £ 2000 a week . Thanks to onr stars they were noVperaittedto riTOfcTthe Queen ' s husband more th * n £ 30 , 060 £ , ew ; they w ^ e tewWed to give him . 650 , 000 . They paid withia a short period , about # 2000 to carry thrown the country w army of bine unconstitutional troops to irntate instead of conciliate the oppressed people , who were seeking their rights in a * more legal and constitutional manner than they themselves agitated for place and power ; and for Jesslrave offences than they themselves had committed , they imprisoned , tortured , jukdmnrdared thepeoWsbest frienda . They gave £ 70 , 000 tp build palaces for the Queen ' s and het husband's horseB ,
£ 30 000 to educate a whole people , and between £ 60000 and £ 70 , 000 to support three Commissioners , with their ipinjons , expressly for the purpose of eradicating every constitutional principle , in order to oppress , degrade , insult , and Btarve the unfortunate poor . Had their course been as rapid and progressive onwards to right and justice , as it has been backward to merciless cruelty , we should have been the happieBt nation upon earth we should have been vieing with each other who should add most to the happiness of the whole , and every one might have lived under his own vise and fig-tree , none daring—none desiring to make him afraid . Instead of this , their accursed system of legislation has inspired only irritation , maliceand of
party rancour , envy , , over-reaching one another ; and while the poor are in tenor of the Bastile * and Rural Police , the rich are alarmed for an approaching crisis , in which life and property will be endangered , and which may result in revolution and anarchy ; . While our best artisans are being engaged by thousands to remove to the Continent and other countries , where they can produce goods much lower than here ; while many thousands are leaving our shores on speculation , to find a home and a resting place for themselves and families , and are employed in many instances upon maohines of our own manufacture which have been sent away by licenses granted by the Government ; this Government have , on the very eve of a dissolution become advocates of , not a Repeal of the Corn Laws , but of & fixed duty on all corn imported ; while the League are for a total and immediate repeal . The consequence is that our trade and com-1 from into other
merceare moving as rapidly us countries , as they formerly moved from them to this country ; while the middle class who are rapidly sinking down to bankruptcy , seem as blind as beetles to thereal cause ; and likeBedlamites , are pertinaciously working out their own destruction . They adhere to the greatest monopolists , and ory down with monopolies while to all discerning men it is quite evident that skimming the surface will only add to our misery . We must commence at tha root , and make a perfect clearance ; we must take the Crowa Lands from the hands of private individuals , and appropriate them to their legitimate purpose . The Church property , which , since the Eighth Harry dispossessed the Catholics of it , is , to all intents and purposes , public property , -would , under any honest Government who advocated libert y of conscience , have been appropriated to public purposes , and all would then have worshipped in their own way unrestrained and untaxed , to support any other .
The standing Army and Rural Police must be abolished in time of peace ; salaries , pensions , and places , must be economized . The debt contracted by the Whigs and the Tories combined , and mainly augmented by the same parties , to support the war of extermination in France , and miscalled the national debt , ( bat which in reality is the debt of the Aristocracy—of those who pledged their property and their lives in support of the war ) , — -this incubus must be removed , and we must prove our superior intelligence by lowering the amount of public expenditure below all other governments .
Whenever this is effected , and not till then , can we have an advantageous free trade ; then may we safely call for a clear stage and no favour ; then with the essential accompaniment Universal Suffrage can we add to our own and to thehappiness of the world Much a 3 the labourers of thiscountry havebeen abused and calumniated they are mow virtuous than any other class in the country , and unequalled in ingenuity and industry , by any people on the face of the globe ; and as soon as justice is extended to them , they will rise in ( morals , possess comforts of which they have been debarred , and a new era will be commenced . Then let the faction which
now governs be driven from power and we are safe ; none other can carry out their treasonable plans—none else can carry into effect the continental system of coercion and centralization . Put them again at the head » f % majority , and the most perfect system of slavery is established . Reciprocity is the great and fundamental principle of free trade ; hence , when it is established , the whole of the protective import duties must be abolished , as well on foreign manufactured goods as apon foreign grown corn ; and with our present burdens , may I ask what would be the consequence t I beg to give you a short list of % few of the many articles of manufactured commerce , and the duty which must bo paid upon them on being imported .
Wood turnery 30 per cent . ; tiles 50 do . ; pack thread 25 do . ; starch £ 9 Ik * , per cwt . ; snuff 6 s . perlb . ; crown glass , £ 8 6 s . 8 d . per cwt . ; blacking £ 3 12 a . 6 d . ; bricks £ 1 2 a . 6 d . per thousand ; sheet glass £ 10 per cwt . ; paper 9 d . per pound ; calf and kid tanned skind , 9 d . per pound ; clocks 25 percent . ; watches 25 per cent . ; worsted yarns 6 d . per pound ; baskets 20 per cent . ; women ' s boots and shoes 30 s . and 363 . per dozen pairs ; men ' s shoes £ 2 14 s . per dozen ; hats and bonnets of straw , from £ 3 3 s , . to £ 6 6 s . per dozen ; hard soap £ 4 103 . per cwt . ; iron bars 31 s . per ton ; straw plat , 17 a . per pound ; books 25 s . per cwt .
Were these articles and others to be allowed to be imported free , we should be inundated with foreign goods , and the home manufacturers and workmen driven to starvation . Now , many can only see cheap bread , but they must also have cheap imported good ? , often ready to fit on to the body . The most splendid furniture , gilded frames , gloves , silks , ribbons , hardware , cutlery , < fec , are being imported daily with these heavy duties ; let them come free and we are done . Women ' s gloves pay 4 s . and men ' s do . 5 s . per dozen pairs : millboard , brown paper , and scaleboard pay £ 3 s 83 . per cwt . ; gold leaf , 3 s . per hundred leaves ; and whited brown thread 18 j . per dozen pounds .
Throw off these and we become importers instead of exporters , r . nd our workmen must seek shelter in foreign countries , or starve at home ; while those who are the most noisy brawlers for " no monopoly " would be the first to suffer ; and unless they will take > counoil and go to the root at once they must be involved in ruin . Give every man a voice in the election of his representatives—establish universal right , Universal Suffrage—it has existed in this country ; we ask for nothing new—establish equal laws and equal rights —and m nation will again flourish—our industrious population will speedily possess every means of comfort ; their love for their dear , their native land , will , then return ; esteem and respect for one another , and good will to all , will abound in every class—in every heart—and replace animosity and
rancorous feeling ; while party spirit will vanish from the land . We shall rise from the existing system of devouring one another , not only to live who can , but to the good ord plan of live and let live . Gentlemen , should 1 be returned to Parliament as your representative , my best exertions will be devoted to the great cause of universal redemption—to that line of action which , in my humble judgment , is best calculated to ensure the greatest possible happiness to all . I shall oppose any Government who does not extend the fullest protection to every human being within their dominions . I shall oppose , in every possible way , every attempt to establish monopoly in trade and legislation . My cause is the cause of the whole people . My only aim is universal good . I am , Gentlemen ,
Your devoted mend and humble servant , ' L . PITKETHLY Huddersfield , June 22 , 1841 .
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TO THE ELECTORS AND NON-ELECTORS OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE . FBIENDS AMD COUNTBYMEN , HAVING been solioited by the delegates of the unrepresented people ( assembled from all parts of the Riding ) in Dewabury , this day , to allow myaelf to be put in nomination as a candidate for the representation of the West Riding , I have deemed it my duty to at once comply , and in responding to the call made upon me , see the necessity aud propriety of making known the principles in support of which I claim , your suffrages . I appear before you as the humble advocate of of that great body of our countrymen exoludedby the present legislative system from all participation in those rights and franchises held and exercised by the other chases of the community .
I see around me the men of my own order ( the working class ) creating ( under God ) ail wealth yet enjoying none—earning that bread in the " sweat of their brow , " which they themselves do not eat , bnt which is devoured by the drones , the schemers , and plunderers of society . From persona ) connection , correspondence , and communication , I pan speak to the universal spirit of discontent existing in the breasts of the labouring many . I know that disaffection toward all existing institutions pervades the mass of the working classes . I know that they regard with scorn and contempt the miserably delusive measures of Reform lately propounded to the country by the present Advisers ot'the Sovereign . What will the proposed trifling reduction per pound in the price of Sugar ; the proposed alteration ( for the worse ) in the Duties on Timber ; the proposed alteration in the Corn Laws , intended
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solely to" bolster up a decreasing Revenue ; what will these changes do for the wretched hand-loom weaver existing npon 2 s . 9 d ., 3 j « d , and 4 a . 6 d . per week ? Foe tha miaerably-paid agricultural labourer ! For the tens of thousands of the destitute ' -of England , Scotland , and Ireland willing to earn by labour their subsistence , but unable to findit ! . ¦; . . . A . change is required , not to keo » one faction in and another faction out ; but a change that will socially benefit the mighty mass—that shall guarantee to him who"toils the fruits of his Wn » . How ia such change to be effected ! . Will titled Aristocrats or wealthy Commoners do that for you which would ameliorate their class-usurpation
Not they indeed . How thenia such change to be brought about ? By the destruction of class-lefiishtita and the representation of the oppressed wealthproducers . ' . , . - Seeing , in the present system of legislation , tne cause of the political debasement and social wretohedness of the working class , I seek for the enfranchisement ( politically and socially ) of that class by the recognition and adoption of the principles of the People ' s Charter . _ ' ¦ I demand the extension of the Suffrage to every male that shall have attained the years of manhood . First , on the ground of right , believing that" all men are born free and equal . " Second , on the ground of protection , that labour may legislate for labour , and that the rioh , through class made Jaws , may no longer grind the faces of the
poor . Opposed in principle to secret voting , I would nevertheless give my support to the Ballot as a meaus of protection to the weak against the tyranny of the Btrong . Annual or Sessional Parliaments I would most cordially support . A more equal division of Electoral Districts is absolutely necessary to avoid the gross anomalies of the present system . The Property Qualification at present required on the part of Eaglishand Irish Representatives is a gross insalt to every principle of justice , the people ' s approval should be the only qualification of the legislator . Each Representativeshould reoeive wages for attendance , that he may be truly the servant of the people , they ( the people ) having the power to dismiss him from their service when failing to fulfil the duties of
hismission . Only when the people are represented will legislative measures be adopted for the good of all . But , in the meantime , it is perhaps necessary that I should state briefly ray sentiments upon certain great questions connected with the welfare of our common country . 1 am sternly opposed to the New Poor Law , both in principle and detail , and will seek its immediate and total repeal . . Regarding with horror and indignation the wholesale murder of the children of the poor in the manufacturing districts , the Ten Hoars Bill shall have my hearty support ; and I will seek by every means in my power to promote a complete reform of factory labour . ¦ ¦
. . ,.. Seeing in local government the best palladium of national liberty , I am opposed to all schemes of " centralisation . " I am hostile to any scheme of Rural Police , and consider that the complete controul over the police of towns and boroughs should be vested in the hands of the inhabitants . I am opposed to all restrictions upon knowledge , and will seek the repeal of all laws and taxes fettering the press . ..,,., The advocate of religious as well as civil liberty , I contend against the existence of a state church , or compulsory exactions for the support of any sect or creed .
I will support a total repeal of the Corn Lawa accompanied by such a reduction of taxation as will allow the British farmer to compete with tha foreign corn grower ; and give to the manufacturing population , the benefit of such repeal without inflicting injury upon the agricultural classes . I am for the repeal of all " monopolies" by the repeal of the " monopoly" of legislation . With respect to Ireland , I am decidedly in favour of a Repeal of the Legislative Union , believing tkat it would be for the interest and welfare of both countries that Ireland should constitute and legislate for herself .
If elected as your Representative , I shall use every exertion to procure the liberation and restoration of all those suffering in prison or in exile for their advocacy of the rights of man . Electors , —I have briefly but explicitly stated my principles—the grounds upon which I hope for your Suffrages ; in you is reposed a weighty trust , see that you exercise that trust for the good of all . We are on the eve of a change , which no earthly power can avert , it is for you to say how that change shall be effeoted . W i are on the very threshold of " Revolution , " it is for you to decide whether that" Revolution" shall be peaceably brought about with your assistance , or whether the disfranchised many shall be compelled to right themselves in spite of your opposition—in the latter ca ^ e the consequences
are frightful to contemplate . Believe me , mere brute forco cannot much longer atiflethe voice of the oppressed and the enslaved . Non-Electors . —The principles set forth in this address are no new principles adopted for the occasion ; for years I have struggled for their triumph ; my first services in your cause entitle me to look for that support of which I feel confident . Friends and Countrymen , —Now is the time to assert your claim to the suffrage ; long disfranchised —long enslaved , cease to be the willing serfs of faction . Attend in your thousands and tens of thousands , on the day of nomination , and once , and for ever , set aside the odious aad wicked distinction of the " privileged few , " and the " subject many . " Demand your rights , and practically assert your demand .
I am , Your devoted Friend and Servant , GEORGE JULIAN HARNEY Dewsbury , June 20 , 1841 .
To Schoolmasters, Tslab&Tt-Mek, And Others.
TO SCHOOLMASTERS , TSLAB&tt-MEK , AND OTHERS .
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