The risings of the Luddites1880 |
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afterwards alarm appeared arms asked attack on Cartwright's Benjamin Walker bill blood Booth Brandreth called Cartwright's mill CHAPTER cloth convicted Crispin cropper Cross-examined death defend desperate door Dungeon Wood evidence fire George Armitage George Duckworth George Mellor guns Halifax hammers hand Hartley heard Heckmondwike Hightown Honley Horsfall was shot Horsfall's Huddersfield James Brook James Haigh Job Hey John Baines John Hirst John Walker John Wood's workshop Jonathan Dean Joseph jury leaders lived Liversedge Longroyd Bridge looking lordships Luddism Luddites Ludds M'Donald machinery machines magistrates masters Mellor and Thorpe military Milnes morning murder never night Nottingham o'clock oath offence passed persons pistol plantation poor prisoners proceeded punishment Rawfolds mill replied rioters Saturday sentence Smith soldiers soon Sowden starving Thomas Brook thou told took trial Warren House Warren House Inn West-Riding William Hall William Hartley William Thorpe witness workmen wounded
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Page 137 - Hark, how he groans ! while nature shakes, And earth's strong pillars bend ! The temple's veil in sunder breaks, The solid marbles rend. 3 "Tis done ! the precious ransom's paid ; " Receive my soul !" he cries ; See where he bows his sacred head! He bows his head and dies ! 4 But soon, he'll break death's envious chain, And in full glory shine ; O Lamb of God! was ever pain, Was ever love like thine ! HYMN 64.
Page 38 - I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country. And what are your remedies ? After months of inaction, and months of action worse than inactivity, at length comes forth the grand specific, the never-failing nostrum of all state physicians, from the days of Draco to the present time.
Page 136 - To bleed and die for me ! 2 Hark, how he groans! while nature shakes, And earth's strong pillars bend ; The temple's veil in sunder breaks, The solid marbles rend. 3 'Tis done ! the precious rans9m's paid ;
Page 144 - That man of loneliness and mystery, Scarce seen to smile, and seldom heard to sigh ; Whose name appals the fiercest of his crew, And tints each swarthy cheek with sallower hue ; Still sways their souls with that commanding art That dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar heart.
Page 38 - Forest as an acceptable gift to the crown, in its former condition of a royal chase and an asylum for outlaws? Are these the remedies for a starving and desperate populace? Will the famished wretch who has braved your bayonets be appalled by your gibbets?
Page 8 - who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society does not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business * Political Economy.
Page 36 - Can you, then, wonder that in times like these, when bankruptcy, convicted fraud, and imputed felony are found in a station not far beneath that of your Lordships, the lowest, though once most useful portion of the people, should forget their duty in their distresses, and become only less guilty than one of their representatives? But while the exalted offender can find means to baffle the law, new capital punishments must be devised, new snares of death must be spread for the 100 wretched mechanic,...
Page 38 - ... outlaws ? Are these the remedies for a starving and desperate populace ? Will the famished wretch who has braved your bayonets be appalled by your gibbets? When death is a relief, and the only relief it appears that you will afford him, will he be dragooned into tranquillity ? Will that which could not be effected by your grenadiers, be accomplished by your executioners ? If you proceed by the forms of law, where is your evidence?
Page 38 - ... from a family which he lately supported in peaceful industry, and which it is not his fault that he can no longer so support — suppose this man, and there are ten thousand such from whom you may select your victims, dragged into court, to be tried for this new offence by this new law ; still, there are two things wanting to convict and condemn him ; and these are, in my opinion, twelve butchers for a jury, and a Jefferies for a judge...
Page 38 - Is there not blood enough upon your penal code, that more must be poured forth to ascend to heaven and testify against you?