Farewell Address (To Their Countrymen and Friends... at the Summer Assizes for the year 1842)

DESCRIPTION: "The assizes they are over now, the judge is gone away, But many aching hearts are left within the town today." Many who are condemned to transportation turned criminal only to survive. The singer says crime would dwindle if only workers had work
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1842 (Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland)
KEYWORDS: trial punishment transportation
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 58-59, "Farewell Address" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Geoffrey C. Ingleton, _True Patriots All: or News from Early Australia as told in A Collection of Broadsides_ ("Garnered and Decorated" by Ingleton), Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988, p. 221, "Farewell Address To their Countrymen and Freinds, Of all those unfortunate Men who received their several sentences, of Transportation, at the Summer Assizes for the year 1842, by the Judges on the Northern Circuit" (1 text)
Hugh Anderson, _Farewell to Judges and Juries: The Broadside Ballad and Convict Transportation to Australia, 1788-1868_, Red Rooster Press, 2000, p. 422, "Farewell Address" (1 text)
Roud #V26602
File: AnFa058

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