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Title: Freehold Land Societies
Their History, Present Position, and Claims

Author: J. Ewing Ritchie

Release Date: June 14, 2010 [eBook #32807]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1853 William Tweedie pamphlet by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf. Many thanks to Birmingham Central Library, England, for
allowing their copy to be used for this transcription.

FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETIES:
THEIR HISTORY,
PRESENT POSITION, AND CLAIMS.

BY

J. EWING RITCHIE.

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"The laws of this country recognise nothing more sacred than the
Forty-shilling Freehold Franchise; and a vote for the county obtained
by these means is both constitutional and laudable."--LORD
CHIEF-JUSTICE TINDAL.

"What he had heard from hon. members told him nothing more than this,
that the working population could easily, under the old system,
acquire the right of voting; and that every man who owned forty
shillings a-year could entitle himself to vote. Were they to be told
that the people of England were so degraded, so besotted, so dead to
all sense of their true interests, that they could make no efforts to
possess themselves of the franchise?"--MR. DISRAELI.

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LONDON:
WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND.

* * * * *

PRICE TWOPENCE.

ADVERTISEMENT.

The following pages are reprinted from the "WEEKLY NEWS AND
CHRONICLE"--the only Paper that aims to be the organ of the Freehold Land
Movement. They are now published in the hope that they may win for that
movement a wider support and a heartier sympathy than it has already
secured. It is a child--it will be a giant ere long.

3, Clifford'