LEGACY TO LABOURERS; OR, What is the Right which the Lords, Baronets, and IN SIX LETTERS, ADDRESSED TO THE WORKING PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. WITH A DEDICATION TO SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART. BY WILLIAM COBBETT, M. P. FOR OLDHAM. LONDON: PUBLISHED AT 11, BOLT-COURT, MDCCCXXXIV. Price, bound, 18. 4d. years, and which had seen, during its existence, the most orderly, the most independent, yet the most obedient; the best fed and the best clad, and, at the same time, the most industrious, and most adroit working people that ever lived upon the face of the earth, being, along with these qualities, the best parents, the best children, the most faithful servants, the most respectful in their demeanour towards superiors, that ever formed a part of any civil community. And, sir, what was THE GROUND stated for abrogating this law; for uprooting the old and amiable parochial governments of England? What was the ground stated for the doing of this thing; for the sweeping away of this government, carried on by neighbours for their mutual good and happiness; what was the ground stated for the tearing to pieces of this family government, and subjecting thirteen thousand parishes to the absolute will of three commissioners, stuck up in London by the servants of the king, and removeable at their pleasure? Why, the grounds were as follow, as stated by the Lord Chancellor, who was backed by Lord RADNOR and by the Duke of WELLINGTON, and a majority of the two Houses, you, sir, being in the majority of one of those Houses. There were many pretences urged; many assertions made; but the main ground, which, 1 |