Committee of the London Working Men's Association lead by William Lovett

“ While freemen stand erect in the conscious pride of thinking right and acting well, their honest front will ofttimes scare the tyrant from his purpose, or check his mad career; for experience as taught him that liberty in a smock frock is more than a match for tyranny in armour; but if they chances to crouch submission, or yield but a hair's breadth to his wish, their doom is fixed — for tyrants delight to crush the yielding suppliant slave. ”

“ To justly distribute the blessings of plenty which sons of industry have gathered, so as to bless without satiety all mankind — to expand by the blessings of education the divinely mental powers of man, which tyrants seek to mar and stultify — to make straight the crooked paths of justice, and humanize the laws — to purify the world of all crimes which want and and lust of power have nurtured, — is the end and aim of the Democrat: to act the reverse of this is the creed and spirit of aristocracy. ”

“ For when the liberties of a million of people are prostrated to the dust at the will of a grasping, despicable minority — when an attempt is made to destroy their representative rights, the only existing bond of allegiance, the only power through which laws can be justly enforced — then has the time arrived when society is dissolved into its original elements, placing each man in a position freely to choose for himself those institutions which are the most consonant to his feelings, or which will best secure to him his life, labour, and possessions. ”

“ We beg to congratulate you on the number of choice spirits which the injustice inflicted on your country has called into action. With such leaders to keep alive the sacred flame of freedom, and such devotedness and self-denial as you have evinced from the onset, we augur your success. ”

“ If the mother country will not render justice to her colonies in return of their allegiance — if she will not be content with mutual obligations, but seek to make them the prey of military nabobs and hungry lordlings, executing their decrees with force, she must not be disappointed to find her offspring deserting her for her unnatural absurdities and monstrous cruelty. ”

“ It gives us great pleasure to learn, friends, that you are not easily scared by proclamation law — by the decree of the junta against a whole nation. Surely you know and feel, though Governor Gosford may not, that "a nation never can rebel." ”

“ Yet of this later clan are those who govern nations — men whose long career of vice too often forms a pathway to their power — who, when despotic deeds have stirred their subjects up to check their villany, declaim against "sedition," talk of "designing men," and impiously invoke the attributes of Deity to scare them from their sacred purpose. ”