The tocsin of opposition has been sounded loud and clear
in the corners of our streets, and the hand of Liberty is
once more held out to uphold and maintain your expiring
rights! Will you once more embrace it, or again allow it
to be shrivelled up in the unholy flame of party purposes,
cupidity, and self-interest? Shake off, then, the torpid
inaction of the past, and awaken the dormant energies for
the opening future. Reflect upon the two last years of
Guardian Mismanagement,--Guardian Intolerance,--Guardian
Ignorance,--Guardian Cupidity,--and Guardian
Retrogression,--principles that have invariably marked the
proceedings of the present Board, during this humiliating
period; and ask yourselves whether these are the persons who
shall constantly rule over you?
Fellow Ratepayers! Are you still determined to be gagged by
decrepid imbecility, and non-age, arrogance, and vanity?
Are you willing that your expiring social and parochial
privileges shall be immolated upon the altar of a bigotted and
unprogressive Board Conclave? Do you think and feel that the
present Board represents the wishes of the ratepayers, and are
the proper persons to spend your hard earned money, take charge
of your aged Poor, and bring up and nurture, in the paths of
frugality and prudence, our rising generation?
Reflect upon these questions, before you give your vote; for,
if the Past is to be taken as an answer to these plain facts,
the reply must be, NO!!
Act, then, like Englishmen, and remove all obsequious toadies
from the stool of office, exercise the vote, which the law and
reason has placed in your hands, with honesty and justice; and
spurn from your presence, as you would a viper, those dastardly
serfs who try to take away your birthright when attempting to
fill up your voting papers, or tamper with your freedom of
thought and action. Put the old tried friends of just economy,
truth and consistency, into their proper places, and VOTE for
Richard Smith, Mine Agent, Priory.
J. Renaud, Glass Master, Dixon's Green.
Thos. Griffiths, Gentleman, Wellington Road.
J. Whitehouse, Gentleman, Oakham.
E. Hollier, Chemist, Market Place.
W. C. Wood, Grocer, High Street.
Joseph Guest, Gentleman, New Street.
M. Dennison, Chemist, Market Place.
E. F. Smith, Agent, Trindle.
R. Houghton, Draper, High Street.
These Gentlemen have before watched over your interests, and
are now ready to assist you again to proclaim and sustain your
social privileges.