102 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



to the Crown, to the Peers, and to tlie Squire- 

 archy, for political purposes; but, like the moun- 

 tain, if so large a name can he assigned to a 

 conclave of such little molehill men, liaving no 

 mouse, all they could produce, after all their 

 labour, was^ the miserable, half-witted hand of 

 a boy armed with a lockless pistol, and sub- 

 sequently whipped for his folly, Avho endeavoured 

 to frighten the Queen. Labourers, servants 

 of all grades, have been striking for a rise 

 of wages, taught by these Hyde Park bloaters, 

 and tauo-ht to strike as the neo^roes in the West 

 Indies were taught to strike by ^'missionaries," 

 who liad better far been ''cold," — that is, tlie 

 blacks were taught to strike just at some period 

 wlien it Avas ruin to an employer or possessor of 

 sugar plantations to lose all the hands he had. 

 Had I a thousand tongues and a million pens I 

 would stamp those men who counsel such strikes, 

 and the poor classes who thus league together to 

 force the money from their employers, as the 

 lowest villains that disgrace tlie name of English- 

 men, or that over robbed on the high road. 



If any labouring man, artificer, or farm-labourer, 

 feels that he is aggrieved by liaving less wages 



