text:  With such aid and indefatigable efforts to collect a crowd of noisy non-electors: with a judicious choice of localities and profuse bribery of the local Radical newspapers in order to procure copious accounts of their proceedings--they commenced their "grand series of country triumphs!" Their own organs from time to time gave out that in each and every county visited by the League the _farmers_ attended their meetings and joined in a vote condemnatory of the corn-laws and pledged themselves to vote thereafter for none but the candidates of the Anti-corn-law League! The following are specimens of the flattering appellations which had till now been bestowed by their new friends upon these selfsame farmers--"_Bull-frogs!"_ "_chaw-bacons!" _"_clod-poles!_" "_hair-bucks!_" "_deluded slaves!_" "_brute drudges!_"[28] Now however they and their labourers were addressed in terms of respectful sympathy and flattery as the victims of the rapacity of their landlords--on whom were poured the full phials of Anti-corn-law wrath