Excerpt from The Factory Child's Father's Reply to the Factory Child's Mother: A Poem This work is intended as a reply to the Airedale Poet's lines entitled The Factory Child's Mother, it is written with no hostile feelings towards the Factory Masters, but with the deepest regret that john nicholson should have disgraced himself by his poetry, and outraged his wife by giving his production her name. The author makes no pretensions to poetical talent. He loves his children, and would fain emancipate them and all other infant slaves. His inspiration is his love of justice and equity. He speaks the sentiments of his heart freely; and, as a respecter of uprightness, he cannot but despise the turpitude of the man who will sacrifice his principles and his feelings to a little paltry gain. Such a man john nicholson has proved himself to be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.