Watkin , like other fellow members of the '' Little Circle '' , had been contributing occasional articles , some even regular columns , for Cowdroy 's '' Manchester Gazette '' . This was a non-Tory non-conformist paper , but moderate in its views compared to the recently created '' Manchester Observer '' . In 1819 that paper invited Henry " Orator " Hunt to attend a public meeting regarding electoral reform , the outcome of which led '' Manchester Observer '' editor James Wroe to coin the term Peterloo Massacre
Peterloo Massacre
Peterloo Massacre
Absalom Watkin