By EDWARD SMITH.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1878.
[All rights reserved.]
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] 1805-1806. | |
| “I never sat myself down anywhere, without making the Fruits and Flowers to grow” | 1 |
| [CHAPTER XV.] 1806-1807. | |
| “I did destroy their Power to Rob us any longer without the Robbery being perceived” | 24 |
| [CHAPTER XVI.] 1807-1809. | |
| “They naturally hate Me” | 45 |
| [CHAPTER XVII.] 1808-1809. | |
| “The Outcry against me is louder than ever” | 63 |
| [CHAPTER XVIII.] 1809-1810. | |
| “Compared with defeating Me, defeating Buonaparte is a mere trifle” | 88 |
| [CHAPTER XIX.] 1810. | |
| “The Folly, common to all Tyrants, is that they push things too far” | 114 |
| [CHAPTER XX.] 1810-1812. | |
| “To put a Man in Prison for a Year or Two does not kill him” | 127 |
| [CHAPTER XXI.] 1812-1816. | |
| “The Nation never can be itself again without a Reform” | 149 |
| [CHAPTER XXII.] 1816-1817. | |
| “Between Silence and a Dungeon lay my only choice” | 173 |
| [CHAPTER XXIII.] 1817-1821. | |
| “Whatever other Faults I may have, that of Letting go my Hold is not one” | 198 |
| [CHAPTER XXIV.] 1821-1826. | |
| “They complain that the Twopenny Trash is read” | 229 |
| [CHAPTER XXV.] 1821-1831. | |
| “I have pleaded the Cause of the Working-People, and I shall now see that Cause triumph” | 249 |
| [CHAPTER XXVI.] 1832-1835. | |
| “I now belong to the People of Oldham” | 275 |
| [CHAPTER XXVII.] 1835. | |
| “I have been the Great Enlightener of the People of England” | 291 |
| [Appendix]: Bibliographical List of William Cobbett’s Publications | 305 |
| [Index] | 321 |