ABSTRACT
The time has now fully arrived, that the question of Universal Suffrage ought to be made the test of honest and honourable feeling to every individual who shall, at the approaching general election, set up pretensions to, and claim the right of, becoming a representative of the people in the great legislative council of the nation. What a moral phenomenon - what an anomaly, in a civilized state like that of England, would be exhibited, should any candidate so far forget the principles of justice, the injunctions of religion, and the claims of humanity, as to dare look the millions of honest and industrious artisans and labourers in the face, of whom he may be surrounded, and tell them that he cannot conscienciously pledge himself to vote, in his legislative capacity, in favour of that popular question!
