ABSTRACT
The Council of the Complete Suffrage Union deemed it advisable to draw up their plan of Complete Suffrage in a bill, which they called a 'Bill of Rights;' and at the last Conference brought forward a resolution for giving that Bill priority of discussion. In 1838 a meeting was convened by the Working Men's Association for the purpose of inducing professors of radical principles to adopt and contend for some definite plan of reform. Men who stood chieftains in their arena by vituperation and blarney, who silenced their opponents by denouncing them, who retained no colleagues but subservient lackeys who daily trumped their virtues and their sacrifices. Men who scorning every elevating sentiment, continually appealed to the passions and prejudices of the multitude, setting man against his brother man till the intolerance, bitterness and persecution they had engendered, aroused all good men to unite to restrain the evil and prevent the further demoralisation of their brethren.
