following very significant terms: "_We can never carry the measure ourselves_: WE MUST HAVE THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS WITH US!!"[27] [27] League Circular, No. xxx. p. 3. They therefore proceeded to commence operations upon the agricultural constituencies. They knew they could always reckon upon a share of support wherever they went--it being hard to find any country without its cluster of bitter and reckless opponents of a Conservative government, who would willingly aid in any demonstration against it. With such aid, and indefatigable efforts to collect a crowd of noisy non-electors: with a judicious choice of localities, and profuse bribery of the local Radical newspapers, in order to procure copious accounts of their proceedings--they commenced their "grand series of country triumphs!" Their own organs, from time to time, gave out that in each and every county visited by the League, the _farmers_ attended their meetings, and joined in a vote condemnatory of the corn-laws, and pledged themselves to vote thereafter for none but the candidates of the Anti-corn-law League! The following are specimens of the flattering appellations which had till now been bestowed, by their new friends, upon these selfsame farmers--"_Bull-frogs!"_ "_chaw-bacons!" _"_clod-poles!_" "_hair-bucks!_" "_deluded slaves!_" "_brute drudges!_"[28] Now, however, they and their labourers were addressed in terms of respectful sympathy and flattery, as the victims of the rapacity of their landlords--on whom were poured the full phials of Anti-corn-law wrath. The following are some of the scalding drops let fall upon their devoted heads--_"Monster of impiety!" "inhuman fiend!" "heartless brutes!" "rapacious harpies!" "relentless demons!" "plunderers of the people!" "merciless footpads!" "murderers!" "swindlers!" "insatiable!" "insolent!" "flesh-mongering!" "scoundrel!" "law-making landlords!" "a bread-taxing oligarchy!"_[29] Need we say that the authors of these very choice and elegant expressions were treated with utter contempt by both landlords and tenants--always making the few allowances above referred to? Was it very likely that the landlord or the farmer should quit their honourable and important avocations at the bidding of such creatures as had thus intruded themselves into their counties? should consent to be yoked to the car, or to follow in the train of these enlightened, disinterested, and philanthropic cotton-spinners and calico-printers? Absurd! It became, in fact, daily more obvious to even the most unreflecting, that these worthies were not likely to be engaged in their "labours of _love_;" were not _exactly_ the kind of persons to desert their own businesses, to attend out of pure benevolence that of others--to let succumb their own interest to promote those of others; to subscribe out of the gains which they had wrung from their unhappy factory slaves, their L.10, L.20, L.30, L.50, L.100, out of mere public spirit and philanthropy.