In your election of a County Representative, you are called
upon to shew yourselves to assert your Independence, by
affording your support to a Man who will endeavour to
promote your Interests by a conscientious discharge of his
PARLIAMENTARY DUTIES. Tell the self-styled Aristocratic
Supporters of COL. LYGON, that you will not compromise your
_Birthrights_; that you will not be intimidated, and that
"_Gold shall not prevail_;"
but that by unanimity and the identity of your cause with
yourselves, you will Stand or Fall. Tell them again, and tell
them too, _you_ use no undue influence, but that the justice
of your cause constitutes its strength. Tell the partisans of
oppression (who lament their Candidate's loss of Interest less
than their _own_) that you will return a Man who will bring to
maturity the Plant nursed by your PATRIOTIC MONARCH and his
Ministers.
Rise then, Brother Freeholders, and by your energy preclude
the everlasting stigma being attached to your County of its
representation being any longer considered the PATRIMONIAL
INHERITANCE of the LYGONS!
Let me, I conjure you, by all the ties which bind Man to Man,
to give effect to the great and glorious Cause in view; let it
be your pride that you have defeated the Machinations of Party,
and that you have given to your Country a Member who will
emancipate you from the thraldom of _Family Influence_! let
then our cry be "God for England, Spencer, and our Cause."
_I am, Brother Freeholders, Yours Faithfully_,
A FREEHOLDER.
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