Freedom and Learmonth must carry the day!! : A new song.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1834]
In one column with a woodcut above the title.
This is a different edition from the items placed at 7.33/1(11), 7.33/1(18), RB.l.54(67), L.C.1957(010), H.17.a.39(10) and RB.m.143(173)
Concerning the Edinburgh parliamentary by-election of 2nd June 1834, where Sir John Campbell, John Learmonth and James Aytoun stood for parliament after the resignation of Francis Jeffrey on his appointment as a Senator of the College of Justice - Lord Jeffrey. John Campbell was the successful candidate, and had previously been an M. P. for Dudley (as mentioned in the text of the ballad).
'Tune-Lillibulero, &c.'.
First lines read: All honest electors of this our fair town / Come listen to me, and I plainly will shew / How impudent lawyer, with wig and with gown.
Campbell, John Campbell, Baron, 1779-1861
Learmonth, John 1789-1858
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