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Foreign News July 5, 1843

Vermont Telegraph

Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont

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The Anti-Corn Law League operates from Manchester, using railways to send speakers to meetings across hundreds of miles, the penny post for thousands of daily letters, and printing presses to distribute three and a half tons of tracts weekly to electors, forming unprecedented moral power from one center. —Edinburgh Chronicle.

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Anti-Corn Law League.—By the railways, some scores of men issue from and return to Manchester, day after day, over hundreds of miles of country to address public meetings. By the penny post, several thousands of letters are daily sent and received, which, without it, would never have been written. By the printing press tracts are being distributed to each elector in the kingdom, at the rate of three tons and a half weekly, the whole forming an amount of moral power moving from one centre, that never before existed in the world—that was never before dreamed of as possible to exist.—Edinburgh Chronicle.

What sub-type of article is it?

Political Economic

What keywords are associated?

Anti Corn Law League Manchester Public Meetings Penny Post Tracts Distribution Moral Power

Where did it happen?

Manchester

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Primary Location

Manchester

Event Details

By the railways, some scores of men issue from and return to Manchester, day after day, over hundreds of miles of country to address public meetings. By the penny post, several thousands of letters are daily sent and received, which, without it, would never have been written. By the printing press tracts are being distributed to each elector in the kingdom, at the rate of three tons and a half weekly, the whole forming an amount of moral power moving from one centre, that never before existed in the world—that was never before dreamed of as possible to exist.

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