A 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people

Usage examples of chartist.

These Chartist combinations were very prevalent throughout the country, and in the early part of this year, these combinations in the different cities of the United Kingdom proceeded to the election of deputies, in order to form a national convention, which was to have moveable sittings, and to be entrusted with the ultimate direction of their proceedings.

There was, probably, no important town in England that had not its chartist association, which looked forward to a violent political revolution by which high wages could be procured by little labour.

As very considerable numbers of the working classes in Lancashire and Yorkshire had been taught in Sunday-schools, and the Sabbath day was much regarded in that part of the country, the collection of such a vast concourse of persons from great distances, on a day so sacred, created prejudices against the chartist confederacies even in their own strongholds, which, irrespective of every other difficulty, ensured their defeat.

That gentleman wished the Irish repealers to join the chartist movement, and to place himself at the head of both.

I have resided in Paris, did any event in England excite such universal interest among all classes of the French as the great chartist demonstration has done.

Strange as it may seem to English readers, the chartist proceedings in England, and those of the Irish repeal party, had considerable influence not only in sustaining unreasonable expectation among the French workmen, but even on their modes of procedure.

Much preparation appeared to be made by the chartist leaders to give it the appearance of a very great popular demonstration.

The government thus showed the impotency of the chartist party, and its own respect for constitutional rights.

From every part of the provinces chartist delegates arrived, by railway and coach, bringing large rolls of petitions to be appended to the general roll.

As the troops took up their several positions within the public buildings, they were loudly cheered by the people in the streets, for it was evident, notwithstanding the immense chartist concourse, that an overwhelming majority of the Londoners was opposed to their proceedings.

When the gallery was opened, the chartist petition, of awful bulk, stood rolled up in front of the table.

The threatened disturbances in Ireland, and the chartist agitation at home, aggravated the evil effects which so many other causes produced.

On the 10th of April, 1848, when the great Chartist meeting took place near London, the dispositions made by the great duke to put down any attempt at insurrection, excited the admiration of all military men.

The anti-Corn Law rhymes of Ebenezer Eliot, and the Chartist songs of Ernest Jones were notable inspirations in their day, and in our own times Walt Whitman and Mr.

Chartist demands were political, it was the social misery of the time that drove men and women into the Chartist movement.