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is the author of a poem called "The European Pariah," which will
compare favorably with the Corn-law Rhymes. His paper is of great
interest, as it details the conventions, the counsels, the measures
of Barmby and his friends, for the organization of a new order of
things, totally at war with the establishment. Its importance arises
from the fact, that it comes obviously from the heart of the people.
It is a cry of the miner and weaver for bread, for daylight, and
fresh air, for space to exist in, and time to catch their breath and
rest themselves in; a demand for political suffrage, and the power to
tax as a counterpart to the liability of being taxed; a demand for
leisure, for learning, for arts and sciences, for the higher social
enjoyments. It is one of a cloud of pamphlets in the same temper and
from the same quarter, which show a wholly new state of feeling in
the body of the British people. In a time of distress among the
manufacturing classes, severe beyond any precedent, when, according
to the statements vouched by Lord Brougham in the House of Peers, and
Mr.
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