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"The laws of this country recognise nothing more sacred than the
Forty-shilling Freehold Franchise; and a vote for the county obtained
by these means is both constitutional and laudable."--LORD
CHIEF-JUSTICE TINDAL.
"What he had heard from hon. members told him nothing more than this,
that the working population could easily, under the old system,
acquire the right of voting; and that every man who owned forty
shillings a-year could entitle himself to vote. Were they to be told
that the people of England were so degraded, so besotted, so dead to
all sense of their true interests, that they could make no efforts to
possess themselves of the franchise?"--MR. DISRAELI.
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LONDON:
WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND.
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