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TO PIANOFORTE PLAYERS ASO SIKGEBS ! JOHN BARNETT'S NEW SONG ! TO MISS COSTELLO'S WORDS ! AND FIVE GRACEFUL " GALOPS" AND "RACE , " IN HONOUR OF THE DERBY !!! All f or 1 * ., in the " Pianista" for May , No . t . Published Monthly , Price One Shilling , THE PIANISTA gives all the Popular Songs , BalladB , &c , with Words , Symphonies , and Accompaniments ; and all the Waltzes , Quadrilles , Galops for Piano , &c ., which obtain , by their excellence , great popularity in London . These are given every month , at a price scarcely one-simth of the charge made by Music Sellers ; a ? , for instance : — No . 1 , for January , 1841 , contains the Elizer d'Amore Quadrilles , " The Banks of Allan Water , " popular song , with words , and an Original Ballad , words by Miss Costello , and musio by Lady Andover ! The whole of these are given in No . 1 , for Is , No . 2 , for February , contains the Royal Christening Solo ,
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EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY . PERSONS hamg a little time to spare , a » 1 apprised that Agent * continue to be appointal in London , and Country Towns , by the EAS ? INDIA TEA COMPANY , for the Sale of 32 celebrated Teas . Office , No . S , Great St . HeleiA Church-yard , Bishopsgate-street . They are packed in Leaden Cunisters , from an Ounce to a round ' and new alterations have bean made whereby Agent will be enabled to compete with all rivals , Thl License is only Eleven Shillings per annun an ? many , during the last Sixteen Years , have realised considerable Incomes by the Agency , without ( S Shilliag Let or Loss . ™ ¦ A pplications to be made ( if by Letter Postpaid ) to ^ CHARLES HANCOCK , Samtary .
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Just Published , Price Two Shillings , Cloth , "PAPER AGAINST GOLD , containing the His . L tory of the Bank of England , the Funds , tin Dtbty the Sinking Fund , and the Bank Stoppage ; also showing how Money is raised or lewered it value by alterations in its qualities ; and the evil effects of the whole upon the Community . By W& Cobbett , condensed by Makcabet Chappelsmiih .
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MEDICAL ADVICE . MESSRS . WILKINSON AND CO ., SURGEONS , No . 13 , Trafalgar-street , Leeds , * nd 34 , Princt Edward-street , Fan-street * Liverpool t HAVIN G devoted their Studies exclusively fot many years to the successful treatment of tht Venereal Disease , in all its various forms ; also , ta the frightful consequences resulting from that destructive practice , "Self Abuse , " may ba
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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS . / J . ENTLEMEN , —A Requisition has been pre-VI sen ted to me from a large and influential Body of the Electors of Leeds , calling upon me to . besom * - a Candidate , in conjunction with ix > rd Jocelyn , for the Representation of the Borough in the erect of a Dissolution of Parliament . The character of ; he Appeal with which I am honoured , whether I regard die nnmber or respectability of the parties -who make it , is such as will not permit me to hesitate between the inclination of private feeling and the dictates of public duty ; I , therefore , Gentlemen , respectfully announce to you my intention 4 > f complying with its request .
la declaring myself a Candidate for so great &n lonour , and in purposing to undertake so heavy a responsibility as that of watching over the Parliamentary Interests of this extensive Borough , I frith I could offer to you th » benefit of Parliamentary as well as Commercial Experience in the consideration of all those great questions which bo deeply absorb the public mind . Never have we stood more In need of the ability of an energetic Government or ihe wisdom of an enlightened Legislature than at the present moment : and I confess that I do not
recollect the period when the depression of every branch of our Commercial Interests has been so appalling as it now is , nor can I conceive any dnty so unptrauvo upon Parliament as that of a' most patient yet prompt endeavour to devise substantial meai ^ s of relief . What may be the cause or the combination of causes which has produced this paralysis of our commercial strength , or what may be tho best means , © f restoring us to activity , admits of much discussion , and deserves to ba discussed with moderation and
temper . To iho ? e who ascribe our present distress , to the operation of the existing Corn Laws , I can admit tl . st a redaction and modification of the present scale of duiiea would not be attended with injustice to a jy clr , A 5 of the community ; and to the advocates of Free Trade I can equally admit that our Com-Etrosal Code requires deliberate investigation , aiid tluu many obstacles which now impede the current ef Trade may be removed without injury to any oilier existing Interest ; but in the pursuit of this object , I hope that England will not be compelled to - abandon those exertions which she has so aobly be £ un in tearing off the hideous badge of Slavery from the human race .
fpoii the subject of the Poor Law , the provisions relsiiiig to what is called out-door relief appear to me to have been made by the Commissioners m utter ignorance of the precarious empleymeat of a manufacturing population , of which not only individuals but 2 i 3 _ = sesof individuals , are , ai a few days' notice , reduced from a state of industrious competency , to helpless destitution . Relief so restricted is wholly inapplicable to the wants of the dense population o ? a trading district ; besides which , there are other para of this law that evidently require
amendment . It is needles for me to dwell in this address upon my devotion to our Church , or upon the importance which I attach to the ReligiouB Education and Moral Improvement of the Poor . It is equally needless fox me 10 express my reverence and admiration for all those institutions comprised within the pale of our unequalled Constitution , calculated as they are to entail blessings upon all classes of the Community ; but I am persuaded that these blessings cannot be per * m&nently enjoyed by any class , or in any rank of life , unless due regard be paid to the means of subsistenc . and to the u contented labour" of the great body of the People .
Whatever may b « the estimation in which the po- ; Key of the present Administration has been held by i its supporters , they mu 3 t acknowledge that that policy cannot be successfully applied to the exigen- ; des of the State except it be based ufon the Conn * - ; denre of the Nation . They must Eee that this Confi- dense has been withdrawn ;—a general dissatisfaction . ' ¦ wi th . : he measures of our Rulers , and an increasing ! suspicion of the Honesty of their motives , are fast ; growing upou the public mind : I concur in these ¦'¦ apprehensions , and should hail their removal from Office as the first step to the restoration of oar Na- j tional Prosperity . . I have the honour to be , ! Gentlemen , i Your faithful Friend and Servant , - i Wil . BECKETT . '¦ Kirkstall Grange , 8 th Jane , 1841 . j
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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS . n ENTLEMEN , —The honour yon have done meia U presenting to me the flattering Requisition I ¦ ha ve just receive- } , proposing that I should offer By--: ! : ' as a Candidate for yoni Suffrages as ene of your Representatives in Parliament , demands my most cordial thanks . I am fully sensible , likewise , of »; : ? additional rains which is stamped on that Requisition by your having associated my name with tha : ^ f your honoured Townsman , Sir . William Be . kett ; and , wiVn such a call and such a colleague , I caimoi hesitate to accept your invitation , and to
profess my willingness to fight with you the battle of ; h » Constitution in this great Crisis of the public affirrs . W ;; h respect to the principle on which I now ^ jom * , forward , I have already had some opportunity of . explaining myself to you personally ; but in accepting ; yoi _ r Requisition I am bound to state explicitly to : all the Electors what those principles are . In on * i word , then , they are strictly Corner votive ; that is ¦ to say , they are such as will lead me to consult the j int- ' -rests , not of one clas 3 to the exclusion or preju- i dice of others , bus to advance the well-being of th $ I enrre Community , adhering a 3 closely as possibl * to : h .- oid Landmarks of the Constitution .
3 ; ji- ; not bid for your support by promising to ro-v - o" and destroy every Institution that may be . fou .: ' . o require Regulation or Improvement ; bat wr . b due respect to the existing Laws and Usages of •> .- ¦ ' Country , I would labour to preserve whatever is u ril , aud honestly to correct and reform what- ¦ eve :- - amiss . i Aj : o ; ae immediate questions which now occupy ih- - public mind , I believe you will agree with me i » tb ..-k ; cg thai , however important they are in them- j se . ~ - -.-. aud deserving of themoit serious considers- ; tic :: of the Legislature , they do not constitute the ] rea " . pMnt at issue at this time , which is no lesa than i in . formation of an efficient Government in place of i
th = Toik Ministry which has for the last few aud \ di-j . < trous years exercised the responsibility without , being able to wield the powers of the State . . ! Tii" the unexampled depression of the Commercial ' ¦ and Financial affairs of the Country requires a Beaching investigation into its cause , and great wi-d- - > ai and firmness in applying the fittest remedies , no TBiiu can doubt ; "but it is equally obvious that the in ii--: passable preliminary to this is the formation of : a ^ rong and effective Government , wise in counsel , ' and p ^ Bsessing the confidence of so decided a majority of ! h : Representatives of the pceple as to hare the . pt- ^ er ol carrying through the measures which th-. y may deem the exigency of the times to
req ; rre . , To the support of Fuoh a Government , if elected- ! a ? f-: - > e of your Representatives , 1 --aali considtr ii my ' jiity w render my assistance , believing entirely ; thii it can be formed only on Conservative pnn- ! ciple ^ ; and while thus seeking to accomplish what t \ I i ! j |
oon-id-r necessary to the safety ol the Country , 1 wi ; l address mvself assiduously to the protection and advincemtnt of vout own varied interests , and to th « o < 'a ;; deration of those great and complicated nati- . 3- qu-: s : ions ivh ^ ch in volve on the oaer hand the gra . ~ -t extension that can taftly and profitably be BO ' ie of the Jliuufuctaring and Commercial Exer-B 3- - -i «> : the iLiuutuctanng and Commercial t ,
xer-1 turn ? of ihis Country , and on the other the protec- ! tio-. or the large and important interests of tke Cul- j iiv-. i-. 0 r 3 of the S" > il ; the snpply of Food to all classes fr-e iroja the iuflnence of Foreign Jealousy and the j & » ijers of Fare-gn War ; the removal of all tne | ha ' .-h and needless severity of the New Poor Law , '; reaJenngit applicable ( which at present it i < not ) - to the vicissitudes of the trade , and the wanis and I eot ^ oris of the Ma's nfacturing Population ; -t ! ie main- ! te ^ va : ^ of th 9 greis and t ruly glorious effort maae . at >•> , a .- ;? e a cost by this Country to str ; k- : S the " : bor . ^ s <• : Slavery throughout the world ; anj the ; extension of those means of a moral aua rdi ^ ouai Ka : osal Education which can alone ins ^ r « tu *> Baf . ^ y of the S : ate and the well-b ; : nj ; of all Classes ' , tanoug our rapidly-increidng Populaiion . i { | j i i i ! | i ; ! j , \ I
Upon these and all other subjects I shall be happy to iifjr ' . you every satisfastion in my po"w « r whenever ihi proper period arrives for my again appearing iui mg you , and iu the meantime I bhuil reljr on the continuance of those efforts upon your part , to wh . ch yea have so generously pledged yourselves , and whiou , if continued , cannot , I believe , fail to bt Bowaed with the desired effect . I have the honour to be , Gentlemen , Your most obedient , humble servant , . JOCELYN
London , Jane 7 , 1840 . The Committee for promoting the Election of Mr , W . Beckett and Lord Jocbltn meet at No . 17 , AlbJop-Street , ererj day at Eleven o'Clock in the Morning and Seven in the Evening . ¦ Any information will be willingiy afiVded to the Electors at any time in the day .
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TO THE ELECTORS AND X 0 N-ELECT 0 R 3 OF THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS . HAT ING bten invited iobe"oir > . » = Candidate for the'K ^ rcSsiiia . iuii of your borough , I cheer-^ uij «© m . j | ij , and re-i my hope ? ¦ ' -ur ^ ess upon the onwidcace b « twcrf t . my pr ? n ?' . ; . -: ^ vi obj-N" * s , and jmtx iutcrest * . and u u u ' t s ' . Tkere a » ptno-js iu the history of nation ? , when CTIBtifWi ^ w to produce & cris ;? , in which aiteation " -i ^ * i -V- -
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to the constitution and workings of Government , the condition of the people , their "grievanoes , opinions , and feelings , become the sacred dnty of all . The present is such a period . The voice of discontent rings through the land , and the cry of the oppressed pierceth the heavens . Merchants and Manufacturers , Masters and Workmen , all , in fact , except those privileged to live on the resources developed and wealth prodnced by the mind , skill , and labour of the people , are dissatisfied with things as they are . Oppression and fraud increase daily . Ruin and unendurable misery are fruits of things as they are ; therefore , a change is demanded .
Bat tvhat change f What change is adequate to the emergencies of the case , and capable of effectually eradicating existing evils ? What change will make England and Englishmen what they ought to be 1 Various schemeB are offered by parties claiming your Suffrages . Which is the best ? That is the question , the " Question of Questions , " which you must now decide 2 As an Englishman attached to my country , and a man desirous of advancing the condition of my race , I respectfully submit my views of the means by which the honour aud happiness of both would be secured . " Be just , and fear not . " That is my remedy ; the foundation of my political creed . Class Legislation , and Irresponsible Power , are opposed to this . I believe them , therefore , to be the source of our miseries—Government by and for the people , the only remedy .
Justice to the People requires that the voice of their Representatives be heard in tho Legislature which makes laws affecting their lives , means of existence , and happiness . This Justice to the People is not only compatible with , but inseparable from , the Teal happiness of all . I am , therefore , no Political Partisan , nor Party Slave . My Principles are embodied in the People ' s Charter , and are admitted , by all , to be abstractedly , just ; but 1 hold that where Justice is an abstractum , Injustice must be a reality . The Principles of the Charter would rest the Government of the Country in Men of Mature Age and Sound Mind ; the present system enfranchises and legislates for Bricks , Mortar , and Money . The former is a Living Sou ! , the latter a Dead Matter Suffrage .
I am not only for the Repeal of the Corn Lates , but the abolition of all Duties upoa Imports and Exports . I would make Trade as free a 3 the air we breathe , and abolishing all other Taxes , would provide the needful expences of a just Governmment by a Tax upon Property . I maintain th « right of the Unemployed Labourer , as well as the Aged and Infirm , to a subsistence from the soil of his native Lsnd ; and shall , therefore , oppose the present Poor Law as insufficient iu its provisions , as well as insulting and despotic in its administration .
My opinions on other subjects I shall have an opportunity of submitting to you shortly ; in the meantime , I assure you jour Choice shall be my Qualification , your approbation my reward , and the promotion of your universal Interests my highest Happiness . I am , Gentlemen , Your Friend and Servant , JAMES WILLIAMS . Sunderland , June 12 , 18-il .
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TO THE ELECTORS AND NON-ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS . fTlHE time has arrived when a new Government JL has to be formed out of the Representatives of the National Mind . In the struggle for the selection and election of such Representatives Leeds has to take a part ; and already are four Candidates , in the respective interest of the two great factions who have ruined our country , claimants for your " sweet voices . " To meet the usurped power of faction , you have , in Public Meeting assembled , called upon me to become a Candidate for the Representation of your Borough , associating me with a noble colleague—one of Nature's Ge » tlemen . I have great pleasure in responding to your call ; and hope to prove myself
worthy of your confidence by exhibiting the incompetency of our opponents to legislate for the present enlightened race of "ignorant Englishmen . I am a plain , blunt man ; so " ignorant , " that I am not considered worthy of being trusted with the power , or even the right , of judging of the respective merits of those who plead for your Votes ; while you consider me worthy the distinguished honour of standing by their side as a Competitor . My opinion on the questions of " the Suffrage , the Ballot , and the Church , " are not " in process of formation" ! They are fully matured and confirmed .
I trust , therefore , that I shall not require "drilling " to " render " me " sufficiently acceptable to the Electors" on these points ! I am a firm and uacomprpmising advocate for the immediate legislative adoption of the People ' s Charter—a document drawn up by Dan O'Connell , Mr . Roebuck , Mr . Hume , and othera . This measure duly provides for the just Representation of the whole People ; secures the free exercise of the Franchise ; and puts an effectual stop to the practice of Bribery and Corruption which now so notoriously prevails . Under it 3 provisions the House of Commons could be no other than a true reflex of the
Jsational Mind . Belonging to the people ; having no interest but in common with the people ; working for the people ( in Parliament if sent ) as I have hitherto worked among the people , 1 shall be free from the trammels of party or faction ; and shall not have to sacrifice honour , honesty , truth , consistency , and character to maintain the ascendency of any one set of miscreants over another . I shall never be obliged to vote that " black h white" to preserve my friends in office !! I make no difference in the creeds of Whig and Tory . The whole ( if any ) consists in their position relatively to the t ~ o little monosyllables— " in" aud " out J" The Whigs in are Torie 3 : —the Whigs out , are anything that you wish to make them to secure their " inuines" ! ' .
As a charge has lately been made by tho hired press against that body to which I have the honour to belong—" the Chartist-paid Misssionaries , "—a word here , perhaps may not be out place . We have been called " Trafficking Politicians . " For the present 1 shall r ^ st q-iietly under the charge ; but upon the day of Nomination I shall take the liberty of questioning both " the noble soldier , " and the " prostituted barrister ' as to the difference of our respective callings : and I think I shall be able to show , that while I still eat the bread of honest toil , that one of my competitor * ig a tool ready to be hired at so much per day for the honourable service of indiscriminate slaughter , while the other ia ready to prostitute himself , for pay , to the indiscriminate support of ritfht or wrong—the first comer being the
| ! ¦ object of his protection and support . Electors and Non-Electors !—A great and mighty change is at hand ! and it behoves us to be prepared with the proper machinery for working out that change . Hitherto all Revolutions have failed , j because the people have not been prepared with a { new system to reptaee the old one ; the intermediate ! space between the d athof one system and the estab' ¦ lishmeut of another having generally been oue of I Physical Revolution , m which the paramount and ' general good of the i ^ ople has b = en overlooked . To COllStitULB a tma . ll cirf in the required machinery 1 take to be the nurpose to which jou mean to apply me and my Honourable colleague should you elect us ; that is , wa saail form a portion of the National Representation of ihe National Will , \ ready to act for the Nation when society shall be i convulsed , las in si I probability it will be ) by the interested simgglea of tne two rival factions for snpremacy . Whatev-r dan ^ tr may be consequent j Bpon that position , I wj llin ^ iy undertake it ; and i shall not shrink i ' r ^ m any honourable ta .-k impo .-ed upon ire by my Cou :-iuutents . W « are in the midrt of a migbtv struggle between Land and Ma CHIJi'eby . The question of the rightful and harmonious application of these two elements of produclion ia one of paramount inipor . 'ancn . though fa « understand its beanugs . 1 flaiter mys-elf that I kiiow some little on each branch of the subject , having had practical acquaintance with both . We must return from a too-artificial , to a more natural state of Society . Tnen will each of these great sources of Wealth and Happiness find its true place in the estimaiion of Society , and producb its uatural results . Agriccltukk wili then be fostered , and not di > coura ^ ed ; and Machinery will be made to work for man , instead of working against him , as at present . Looking anxiouO y for the o » y when unprotected Lab ^ cu shall mee- protected Capital , before &n ua-! prejudiced jury of En ^ lLshmef . | lam , i Your devoted Friend and Servant , ! JAMES LEECH . i Manchester , June Hth , 1841 .
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TO THE ELECTORS AND INH \ BITANTS OF THE BOROUGH uF ROCHDALE , Electobs and Inhabitants op Rochdalb , T COME before you , at this great Crisis , as the c&n-X . didate for your representation , not assuming that position at my own seeking , but under the command of a great body of your Electors , signified to me by their written requisition , and since sanctioned at your late Meeting , by the unanimous approval of your assembled Citizens—not assembled in privacy , or within walls , where opponents Otfdd be excluded —but in an open ' space where every individual had
the unrestricted power to enter , after a Procession through your Street * , which gave the greatest possible publicity t » the object . I am not so presumptuous to consider this proceeding as a manifestation of personal favour to myself ; I hold it as a declararatioa of your adhesios to that great Cause which we jointly support : —that Cause is , the Abatement of Monopolies , Political , Religious , aud Commercial ;—it was this cause which , at your Meeting and Pro : e ? Mon on Saturday evening , produced such unanimity and enthusiasm—that through the extended range of that Procession , and at that Meeting , not one murmur of dissent was heard .
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When I avow myself the Opponent of all Monopolies , I proclaim the advocacy of every Measure which can produce Political , Religious , and Commercial Freedom . I desire , by the just Extension of the Suffrage to all Classes of the Community , protected by the Ballot , to destroy the Monopoly of Representation by which the / ftp have been hitherto enabled to make L " aws to the injury of the many : —and I hold this Monopoly of Representation to be the grand source from which every other Monopoly has derived its existence and Bupport . I desire to Establish Religious Liberty , by Abolishing Church Rates and all Compulsory Assessments , through the means of which a man may be required
to pay for the Ministry or Ordinances of a Church with which he is not joined in communion . I desire to establish Commercial Liberty , by Repealing all Duties imposed for the Protection of Class In tereBts . amongstwhichlconsidertheDutieson Corn to be the most grevious , oppressive , and unjust , —and rendered still more intolerable , whilst through themeans of the New Poor Law , the provision for the Poor has been curtailed , and the terms of relief rendered so hard and offensive to the honest feelings of English Independence as to induce the sufferers to submit , in many cases , to the extinction of life through want and disease , rather than humble themselves to the degrading condition of a Workhouse . By these unjust enactments , discontent has been
generated , the attachment of Englishmen to the constitution of their Country has been weakened , outrage has been the unfortunate consequence , your Jails have been filled with Political Offenders , and under pretence of enforcing good order—the constitutional Constable has been exchanged for the hired Policemen—the noble institutions of your Great Alfred have been cancelled—Englishmen are no longer to be the unpaid guardians of their own peace—and a body has been formed under the name of a Rural Police , for the support of which , your Taxes have been increased , and an instrument has
been created , which , in the hands of an arbitrary Government , might speedily be converted into a Standing Army independent of the control of Parliament , and applied to the subversion of all the Constitutional rights of the people . My desire is to restore your country to good order , not by the continuance of imprisonments and punishments , and despotic establishments , but by such improved Laws and systems of policy as will secure the attachment of the People to their form of Government , and their obedience to the authorities of the State , by a sense of the practical benefits secured to them .
Wifh reference to Ireland , I claim for that portion of the United Kingdom , Equal Rights , and Privileges , and Franchises with Britain , and I desire to incorporate the interests of the two Countries by tke communication of mutual advantages , through the means of just and impartial principles of united Legislation . Electors and People of Rochdale , snch isan abstract of my opinions , my well considered opinions —which I have more fully explained to you at your public meetings : —I have told you also , that I will not go to Parliament to support the objects of any
Party or Ministry , or any Leader , but to sastain to the best of my judgment , by my honest votes , the combined interests of all Classes of the Community : and impressed with the evil of the lengthened duration of Parliaments , I reiterate the pledge ot annually submitting my Parliamentary Conduct to the test of your decision , and if called on , at any time , by any considerable number of the voters who supported me , I promise to re-place in your hands the trust of your Representation . If I go into the House of Commons in a capaoity to serve you , I must go there by your free , unsolicited , and unpurchased voices : —On no other terms can I consent to
be yo'ir Representative . Electors of Rochdale , I feel there are no personal grounds on which I could solioit the position of your Representative . We come together with a view of acting for the common good of our Country : we desire , at this great Crisis , to take the kest steps to promote those Reformed Systems which the National interests imperatively require . For the 3 e objects our connection must be founded on public virtue . Electors and Inhabitants of Rochdale , I am informed that the friends of Monopolies will attempt to make a stand against us , by mtans of th * power which the monopoly of the rights of voting supplies them . That they hope , by private workings and undue influences , and , above all , by creating divisions , to swamp the votes of the Liberal Electors , and defeat that power which would be impregnable
to their attacks if the Elective Franchise were diffused to a just extent throughyour Working Classes . Be on your guard , therefore . Recollect "That united we stand—divided we fall . " Think not of the individual Candidate , but of the cause , —think of your wives and families—think of your working fellow townsmen , the Non-Electors , and then ask , — will you give your votes in support of those monopolies by which the sources of employment are closed , whilst at the same time the prices of food are raised!—Electors , recollect that the more the franchise is limited , the higher are the responsibilities of those who hold it . Permit me , in conclusion , to call to your mind the memorable words of Nelson , — " England expects every man to do his duty ! " Acting upon this motive alone , I offer myself to your service .
Your faithful Servant , WM . SHARMAN CRAWFORD Rochdale , June 7 th , 1841 .
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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF BRADFORD , p ENTLEMEN , —You are about to be called upon VJT to exercise the important Trust which you hold in common with the other Electors of this Kingdom , of returning Representatives of your opinions to Parliament . The preseut Political Crisis is perhaps of more importance to the industrious and productive Classes of our Countrymen than any that has occurred in our history . A struggle is about to ensue between the two great Factions of the State for Political Power . —They aro bo nicely balanced that it will require but a very few Independent Men in Parliament to turn the scale on whatever side is most favourable to the People .
It behoves you therefore to exercise tke Elective Franchise with caution and discrimination . Have a clear understanding with the Candidates , and endeavour to return , at least , one independent'of party ; for the great advantage of having only a few such men in the ensuing Parliament ia obvious . They all hold the Balance of Power , and the cause of the People must progress . In responding to your call , it is but right that I should give you a tandid statement of my political principles . They are , adopting the maxim of Bentham , to secure to the People the greatest happiness of the greatest number ! To arrive at that desirable end , I believe it necessary to give to them Universal Suffrage aud increased facilities for acquiring
knowledge , by a National System of Education founded on liberal and enlightened principles . I am fer ftstoring to the People their anoient usage of electing their representatives Annually , and that they should be paid for their Services , believing these measures to be of the utmost importance in securing a real Representation of the People inParliamentrby establishing , on a firm basis , that dependence of the Representatives upon the Represented , which is essential to good Government . I am also for a division of the Kingdom into Electoral Departments , depending in their divisions upon an equal amounc
of population , as one of the means ot getting a fair Representation of the People , by destroying the prescBt corrupt and iniquitous system of permitting Boroughs with a population of 4 , 000 to exercise the same influence in the State as those containing 100 , 000 inhabitants . I am an advocate for the Vote by Ballot , not from principle , but expediency , looking upon it under the preseut confined arrangement , as ths only means of destroying the corrupt « v $ tem of influence and bribery at Elections . Tho f . ivgoing I consider fundamental principles called Uiio existence by the increasing intelligence of the age .
Wiih regard to those Measuresnow exciting public Discussion , I am for a Total Repeal of tho Corn Laws , believing them to bo an iniquitous tax upon the many for the benefit of the few ; aud an impediment to the Ext as : on of the urea ; Resources of this Country , her Manufacturing Industry and Capacity . I am for a Repeal of all those Laws which prevent the freest Intercourse of nations in their Commercial Transactions , believiDg such Restrictions to bo iiisa-Jvautageous to the great ma ^ s of the People in thi& Country , and an Impediment to the Advaucement ot the Civilization of Mankind . I am in favour of a Gr&duaut ] Property Tax , as the fairest which can be levied , to supply the deficiency of Revenue winch might be occasioned by ari alteration of our Commercial Code .
I am opposed to the New Poor Law , considering it Unchristian and Inhuman , in sacrificing the nearest and dearest Ties of Humanity to Political Economy . I am for the Abolition of Church Rates , looking upon them as oppressive and dishonest towards the Dissenters , in calling upon them to contribute to the pupport of a Structure iu which they never congregate . This is the general outline of my Principles ; not taken up for the occasion , but winch I have held throughout life . I have Independence and Leisure , both essential for the proper performauce of the duty of a Representative of the People iu Parliament .
If you think my Principles claim your hupport ., my time and energies are at your &e " ' :. _ ; ^ tj no bribery or Intoxication , ( benit ; a dtoidca ; r ; ona to the Temperance Cau .= : ) will I compromise my Principles , or endeavor o corrupt you . I sbali then have the eatisfacth / i- . : uc-e ., ( ' my Election , of entering upoa my c \; ¦ " ,- .. , o »! a and fearless , in having beta returned i > v H"nest and Independent Electors . On the oti . cr ; u . « i ' •• • . -.-el hhould not be chosen by a > laj ivv . _ , „; . , i , ; , aii ha . v « tlio satisfaction of rtt . r . j # u , ' . o pr . v ^' e hie without a single unpleasant feeling , hii wiiii Ue consciousness of having honestly oSeied to my supporters the
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means of recording their opinions in favour of the Political Principles of which I am the humble Advocate . I remain , Gentlemen , Your ' s , faithfully and sincerely , W . SIMPSON . Bradmore-Hoti 8 e , Hammersmith , Jaue 12 ih , 1841 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 19, 1841, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct384/page/2/
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