Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: beyond class?
- PART I POWER AND THE PEOPLE: POLITICS AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART II MORALISING THE MARKET: WORK AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART III CUSTOM, HISTORY, LANGUAGE: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART IV KINGDOMS OF THE MIND: THE IMAGINARY CONSTITUTION OF THE SOCIAL ORDER
- Appendices
- 1 The Political Pulpit. A Sermon, 1839, (Extract)
- 2 Memory Sketches (Oldham, 1887)
- 3 Speech on Blackstone Edge, 1846 (Extract)
- 4 Speech at Manchester, 1866 (Extract)
- 5 Speech at the Public Hall, Warrington, 1868 (Extract)
- 6 McDouall's Chartist and Republican Journal, 1841 (Extract)
- 7 Short Time Committee Placards
- 8 ‘Our Merry Town’, Pearson Collection
- 9 ‘Rich and Poor’, Pearson Collection
- 10 Extract from the preface of the Weyver's Awn Comic Olmenack, 1881
- 11 Extract from the 1885 Weyver's Awn
- 12 Extract from Bob Stubbs' Yorksher Awmynack, preface and entry for March 1910
- 13 Cover and extract from Tommy Toddles' Comic Almenac, 1875
- 14 An example of Sussex dialect literature
- 15 Welcome, bonny brid
- 16 A Royal Visit, 1896
- 17 Eawr Folk
- 18 Bowton's Yard
- 19 Cotton Fowd
- 20 Title page and opening of a ‘Tum Fowt’ sketch
- Bibliographical note
- Notes
- Index
4 - Speech at Manchester, 1866 (Extract)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: beyond class?
- PART I POWER AND THE PEOPLE: POLITICS AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART II MORALISING THE MARKET: WORK AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART III CUSTOM, HISTORY, LANGUAGE: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
- PART IV KINGDOMS OF THE MIND: THE IMAGINARY CONSTITUTION OF THE SOCIAL ORDER
- Appendices
- 1 The Political Pulpit. A Sermon, 1839, (Extract)
- 2 Memory Sketches (Oldham, 1887)
- 3 Speech on Blackstone Edge, 1846 (Extract)
- 4 Speech at Manchester, 1866 (Extract)
- 5 Speech at the Public Hall, Warrington, 1868 (Extract)
- 6 McDouall's Chartist and Republican Journal, 1841 (Extract)
- 7 Short Time Committee Placards
- 8 ‘Our Merry Town’, Pearson Collection
- 9 ‘Rich and Poor’, Pearson Collection
- 10 Extract from the preface of the Weyver's Awn Comic Olmenack, 1881
- 11 Extract from the 1885 Weyver's Awn
- 12 Extract from Bob Stubbs' Yorksher Awmynack, preface and entry for March 1910
- 13 Cover and extract from Tommy Toddles' Comic Almenac, 1875
- 14 An example of Sussex dialect literature
- 15 Welcome, bonny brid
- 16 A Royal Visit, 1896
- 17 Eawr Folk
- 18 Bowton's Yard
- 19 Cotton Fowd
- 20 Title page and opening of a ‘Tum Fowt’ sketch
- Bibliographical note
- Notes
- Index
Summary
On the 24th of September, in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester, which was crowded almost to suffocation by upwards of 5,000 persons, Mr Bright, was presented with an Address by the Reform League recently established in that city. In accepting it, Mr Bright spoke as follows:
I was not aware when I was invited to attend this meeting that anything different from the ordinary course of proceedings would take place. I was not informed that I should be honoured by the presentation of any address. I accept this address with many thanks for the kindness which you have shown me; at the same time I accept it with something like fear and trembling, because of the mighty responsibility which by this address you would throw upon me. I have never had any ambition for leadership; I do not feel myself to have fitness for such an office. I have worked hitherto wheresoever I chanced to be, whether in the ranks or in the front; and without pledging myself to undertake all that this address asks of me to undertake, and perform, I may, however, freely pledge myself to this, that wherever I find men willing to work for human freedom and human happiness, I trust I shall be ready to take my part with them.
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- Visions of the PeopleIndustrial England and the Question of Class, c.1848–1914, pp. 355 - 356Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991