An Address to the Higher Classes in the Town of Manchester: And Vicinity, on the State of Public Feeling As Connected With the Designs of the Radical Reformers - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820. Excerpt: ... AN ADDRESS, &c. Gentlemen, For a long time past I have been a watchful observer of your ways and manners, anxiously looking for something like a symptom of your awakening to a due sense of the manifold evils of your perilous condition. But vain, I now see, was the expectation. Your slumber is even more profound than I had thought you capable of--though not inclined, I think, to overrate your virtue. In the lap of ease and enjoyment a part of you are dreaming away the hours, careless of evil and fearless of every enemy but one--in the hilling of which however, it is but fair to allow you show considerable life and spirit. Others, of yon, wrapt in deep cogitations of profit and loss, are entranced, as it were, within the magic circle of the warehouse and the exchange, and have contracted a sort of drowsy indifference to all other objects and events--happy because insensible in the midst of danger and alarm. To persons thus circumstanced, enjoying such a calm repose, it may perhaps at first view seem almost cruel to offer any disturbance. But that is a false humanity, I conceive, which when our neighbour's house is on fire, and himself asleep, withholds us from awakening him, from an apprehension of molesting his dangerous slumbers. Let me hope therefore, worthy Sirs, that you will not take it amiss that one who has little to recommend him to you but a desire for your safety and a concern for your honor, should for a few moments break in upon your rest--' especially as, should you think his call unseasonable or without reason, it is always in your power to be revenged on him, by going to sleep again immediately, after rubbing your eyes and passing an imprecation or two on. his impertinence". I shall not begin with attempting to prove my proposition, that you...

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