The Chartist Movement in Its Social And Economic Aspects Part 1
The Chartist Movement in Its Social And Economic Aspects Part 1
Frank Ferdinand Rosenblatt
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It was not from free discussion, it was not from the unchecked declaration of public opinion that government had anything to fear. There was fear when men were driven by force to secret combinations. There was the fear, there was the danger, and not in free discussion.^ The people, in their indignation, defied the government and publicly trampled under foot the royal proclamation of the middle of December which, on penalty of imprison- ment, enjoined all persons to desist from participating in ...torch-light meetings. The chasm between the workingmen and the middle class became ever wider. If a workingman failed to abuse the middle class, he was himself vilified and denounced. The bearing of arms became more general. Holyoake witnessed in Birmingham that those who had no better weapons " sharpened an old file and stuck it in a haft. " ^ The Dundee Advertiser of April 12, 1839, de- clared that " a number of infatuated individuals " had com- menced drilling and intimated that the authorities were keeping an eye over them : " Shackles in place of pikes will shortly be the upshot to those who engage in such danger- ous pastime.
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