In The Times of April 14, 1862, appeared the first of a series of letters, pleading the cause of the distressed operatives.

He said:- "I am living in the centre of a vast district where there are many cotton mills, which in ordinary times afford employment to many thousands of 'hands,' and food to many more thousands of mouths.
With rare exceptions, quietness reigns at all those mills.

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