Within the past few days a political manifesto has been issued, signed most fittingly by a Castlereagh and a Beresford, calling for British Volunteers and for money to arm and equip them to be sent into Ireland to triumph over the Irish people and to complete their disfranchisement and enslavement."
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
Nor did the disfranchisement of rotten boroughs, and the extension of the franchise, by any means put an entire stop to the practice.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
This was made a pretext for more severe measures by the hirelings of the crown who recommended to Parliament the disfranchisement of the colony.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson