Mr Aytoun's campaign against the Airdrie Radicals : An excellent new song.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1832]
In one column with a woodcut above the title.
Relating to the campaign in Edinburgh for election to the first reformed House of Commons, in 1832. This ballad attacks Aytoun, who campaigned as a Radical candidate, despite the fact that he had joined the militia which opposed the Radical rising at Bonnymuir in 1820. Aytoun later withdrew from the contest.
'Sung, with great applause, at the last dinner given by the Edinburgh Sour Milks'.
First lines read: Come brother Conservatives, fill up your glasses, / And start to your feet with hearty hurra! / Tho no more we may draw our broad swords on the asses, / Our tricks and our cunning will win us the day.
Aytoun, James 1797-1881
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