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 Publications305
[Index]321

WILLIAM COBBETT:
A BIOGRAPHY.