He told me that he looked forward to some tremendous popular outbreak, and should not be surprised any night to hear that every mill in Bradford was in flames.
But perhaps the most remarkable individual with whom this Lancashire journey brought us into contact, was a Mr.Oastler.He was the Danton of the movement.

He would have been a remarkable man in any position or calling in life.

He was a very large and powerfully framed man, over six feet in height, and proportionately large of limb and shoulder.

He would, perhaps, hardly have been said to be a handsome man.

His face was coarse, and in parts of it heavy.