Aytoun the yeoman! or, The orator left in the lurch by one of his own voters : 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 James 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.
'Tune. - "Mr Orator Puff."'.
First lines read: Ho! ho, Mr Aytoun, so now it turns out, / You're only a Tory who's turned his coat; / Since a Yeoman at Airdrie no Whig you'ld endure, / And Radicals slaughter'd at sad Bonnymuir.
Dated at the foot of the sheet in ink - '11 July 1832'.
Aytoun, James 1797-1881
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