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“ifrage, to take their chanco in an anpeal to the ignorance
0d vic of the country against tho winions of the teetotellers,
 nonconformist and rational Radicals, who would
Sonstitute nine-tenths of our phalans of forty shilling freeholders,
 I have sent you Taylor's letters. I feel much
elined, indeed T may say I am almost resolved, to go to
Birmingham at the end of this month or the beginning of
ext to a delegate meeting, Tell ms what you and Wilson
think, Pray show him the letters. When I alluded to a
Yircalar to be called <The Freeholder,” I meant a monthly
Publication as & beginning, to give information and directions
 ahout qualifying, registering, ete., and to record the
fames and proceedings of all societies. But such a publi-Cation
 might grow into a powerful exponent of the laws of
real property, and make people familiar with things which
‘re now Hebrew and Greek fo them.
“I have bored you sll so much about this forty shilling
freehiolg scheme, that you seem to have fallen naturally into
the ides, that T cherish it to the exclusion of a broad and
Specific plan of reform. It is not so. I want it as a means
W gl] that we require, snd upon my conscience it is, I
believe, the only stepping-stone to any material change.
The citadel of privilege in this country is so terribly strong,
O%ing to the concentrated masses of property in the hands
of the comparatively few, that we cannot hope to assail it
With success unless with the help of the properticd classes
i the middle ranks of society, and by raising up a portion
of the working-class to become members of a propertied
Order; and I know no other mods of enlisting such co-®Peration
 but that which I have suggested. . . . .”
“Nov. 4. (To Mr. Boi, )=If you know Mr. Kay's
address, don’t forget to impress upon him the importance
of separating the question of land tenure from that of
Sucation in Lis forthooming book, Nothing is more

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