A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days / Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria

by Joseph Grego

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“THE RIGHTS of WOMEN” or the EFFECTS of FEMALE ENFRANCHISEMENT

A HISTORY
OF
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
AND ELECTIONEERING
IN THE OLD DAYS
SHOWING THE STATE OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND PARTY
WARFARE AT THE HUSTINGS AND IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS FROM THE STUARTS TO QUEEN VICTORIA

CANDIDATES ADDRESSING THEIR CONSTITUENTS.
ILLUSTRATED FROM THE ORIGINAL POLITICAL SQUIBS, LAMPOONS
PICTORIAL SATIRES, AND POPULAR CARICATURES OF THE TIME
BY
JOSEPH GREGO
AUTHOR OF “JAMES GILLRAY, THE CARICATURIST: HIS LIFE, WORKS, AND TIMES”
“ROWLANDSON, THE CARICATURIST: HIS LIFE, TIMES, AND WORKS,” ETC.
London
CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1886
[The right of translation is reserved]

“I think the Tories love to buy
‘Your Lordships’ and ‘Your Graces,’
By loathing common honesty,
And lauding commonplaces....
I think the Whigs are wicked Knaves
(And very like the Tories)
Who doubt that Britain rules the waves,
And ask the price of glories.”

W. M. Praed (1826).