Parliament
against
Arkwright’s
scribbling
mills and
carding
engines.
The
enormous
destruction
of
machinery
that
occurred
in the
English
manufacturing
districts
during the
first 15
years of
this
century,
chiefly
caused by
the
employment
of the
power-loom,
and known
as the
Luddite
movement,
gave the
anti-jacobin
governments
of a
Sidmouth,
a
Castlereagh,
and the
like, a
pretext
for the
most
reactionary
and
forcible
measures.
It took
