Aytoun the union laddie.
[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. Aytoun later withdrew from the contest.
Air - The new Highland laddie.
First lines read: The Whigs think they are grand and great, / But O! they're proud and idly gaudy, / How much unlike the mainly gait / Of Aytoun our dear Union Laddie!
Dated at the foot of the sheet in ink - '11 July 1832'.
Aytoun, James 1797-1881
Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850
Dunfermline, James Abercromby, Baron, 1776-1858
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