I shall with the least possible delay pay my respects to you personally; and have the honour to be
Your humble Servant,
FREDERICK SPENCER.
Althorp, April 26th, 1831.
TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF THE TOWN AND NEIGHBOURHOOD OF DUDLEY.
In your election of a County Representative, you are called upon to shew yourselves to assert your Independence, by affording your support to a Man who will endeavour to promote your Interests by a conscientious discharge of his Parliamentary Duties. Tell the self-styled Aristocratic Supporters of COL. LYGON, that you will not compromise your Birthrights; that you will not be intimidated, and that
“Gold shall not prevail;”
but that by unanimity and the identity of your cause with yourselves, you will Stand or Fall. Tell them again, and tell them too, you use no undue influence, but that the justice of your cause constitutes its strength. Tell the partisans of oppression (who lament their Candidate’s loss of Interest less than their own) that you will return a Man who will bring to maturity the Plant nursed by your Patriotic Monarch and his Ministers.
Rise then, Brother Freeholders, and by your energy preclude the everlasting stigma being attached to your County of its representation being any longer considered the PATRIMONIAL INHERITANCE of the LYGONS!