And win loud lip-applause.

“X”! (pelled) M.P.

From Blasts from Bradlaugh’s own Trumpet, London: Houlston & Sons. About 1884.


“A clergyman—decidedly of the Church militant—sends us the following proposed ‘national anathema.’ His motto is from the ‘Magnificat’”:—

Deposuit Potentes de Sede.

Down with their lofty seats,

Down with their vain conceits,

Down with the Lords!

Confound their false pretence,