Identifier: lifeofjohnbright00trev (find matches)
Title: The life of John Bright
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Subjects: Bright, John, 1811-1889
Publisher: London : Constable & Co. Ltd.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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rayers they sit down to make a lawfor the purpose of extorting from all the consumers offood a higher price than it is worth, that the extra pricemay find its way into the pockets of the proprietors ofland, these proprietors being the very men by whom thisinfamous law is sustained. . . . Two centuries ago the people of this country wereengaged in a fearful conflict with the Crown. A despoticand treacherous monarch assumed to himself the rightto levy taxes without the consent of Parliament and thepeople. That assumption was resisted. This fair islandbecame a battlefield, the kingdom was convulsed, and anancient throne overturned. And if our forefathers, twohundred years ago, resisted that attempt—if they refusedto be the bondmen of a king—shall we be the born thrallsof an aristocracy like ours ? Shall we, who struck thelion down—shall we pay the wolf homage ? Or shall wenot, by a manly and united expression of public opinion,at once, and for ever, put an end to this giant wrong ?
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JOHN BRIGHT Portrait by Duval, done for the Ami-Corn-Law Series. John Bright in the Quakercoat and collar which he wore in the first years of his political life 1845) PEEL RETURNS 143 Two days before Christmas a great meeting was held in theTown Hall, Manchester, to inaugurate the famous quarter ofa million pounds fund to deal the death-blow to Monopoly. For an hour and a half cards were placed in the Chairmanshands, nearly as fast as he could read them, from individualssubscribing their thousands, their seven, five, four, three, two,and one hundreds, and smaller amounts. Our subscriptionmeeting is just over, wrote Bright to his sister-in-law thatevening, 1 and we have a list of more than £60,000 given in. Themeeting was the most extraordinary probably ever heldin the kingdom. It lasted from 11 to 3 oclock, on themarket day. Exchange and dinner-hour alike disregarded—crowded and earnest to a degree heretofore unequalled.So in this district we are doing our duty ; 25 names orfirms h

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