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I believe if the Unions had not been formed as a nucleus for the people to gather round, there would have been bloodshed. The men who formed Unions acted with wisdom, with judgment, acted with propriety; they afforded the people an opportunity of giving vent to their feelings.
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© 1999 Nancy D. LoPatin
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LoPatin, N.D. (1999). The Reform Riots and Political Unions as Peacekeepers: October—December 1831. In: Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832. Studies in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371026_5
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