Personal Rights

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Excerpt from Personal Rights: Speeches of P. A. Taylor, Esq., Late M. P. For LeicesterMr. Taylor was already a conspicuous politician before he was elected member for Leicester in 1862, having become known to friends and foes as an indomitable Radical when working by his father's side in the anti-corn-law and Church Rate Agitations before he was first scoffed at, then listened to and ultimately respected even in the cynical atmosphere of St. Stephen's as the leader of Forlorn hopes, the Champion of forgotten rights and the Redresser of unheeded wrongs. He enjoyed the friendship of men like Peronnet Thompson, W. J. Fox and J. S. Mill, with whom he shared the labour and expense of the attempt to bring General Eyre to justice.A Sincere believer in the sacredness of nationality, Mr. Taylor was the life-long friend of Joseph Mazzini, and in his unfaltering obedience to Principle at any cost and un swerving faith in Justice, quzmd méme, it is easy to recognise the in¿uence of the great Italian at whose bidding during the short triumvirate the national decrees were issued in the name of God and the People. This ideal of Republican equality has, in fact, governed Mr. Taylor's political life, and since it has but small resemblance to the ideas which govern what are called politics in England at the present day, we cannot but regard it as a satisfactory and encouraging fact that a man so dissimilar from the vast majority of those among whom his political lot was cast, should, by his simple, dignified persistence in carrying out his own notion of duty, have won the cordial respect even of those members of the House most hostile to him in opinion. From being at first sneered at as the revolutionary, then marvelled at as the eccentric member for Leicester, Mr. Taylor came to be spoken of as the Incorruptible of the House.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.