Issue Details: First known date: 1849... 18 August 1849 of The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator est. 1848-1856 The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator
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* Contents derived from the 1849 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Wentworthi"First come the Magnates - lo, their leader -he", Charles Harpur , single work poetry
Sections of this poem later incorporated into 'The Temple of Infamy' and other poems about Wentworth.
(p. 6)
Note:

Includes lengthy footnote:

'It has always been a puzzle to really large-minded, full-hearted men, by what outre and antipodean combination of circumstances this man could ever have been lifted into prime political eminence.

'As an orator, he is a mere blearer. As a statesman, he is crudity personified. As a lawyer, he is but so so; consistency he has none : and for patriotism - but listen to Doll Tearsheets' dissertation on the words Captain and occupy. "Captain! thou abominable ... '

The footnote is incomplete on the copy indexed.

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