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The Chartists
Extracts
This page contains many of the quotations from the programme. It can be printed out as a guide for students watching the programme, or copied into a word processor or other application to provide an additional resource. Time codes refer to the points in the programme where the quotations appear.
0.24
Illustrated London News
15 April 1848
The feverish state of political excitement ...
0.40
The Times
8 April 1848
... the seditious and treasonable designs which have been openly avowed by too many persons ...
1.04
Illustrated London News
15 April 1848
1.15
Punch
April 1848
1.30
Northern Star
15 April 1848
THE CHARTER AND NO SURRENDER
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
VOTE BY BALLOT
NO PROPERTY QUALIFICATION
ANNUAL PARLIAMENTS
PAYMENT OF MEMBERS
EQUAL ELECTORAL DISTRICTS
2.11
John Bull
8 April 1848
We shall be glad to learn from them, for instance, what, in its completeness, the noble system is which they propose to substitute for that feeble constitutional fallacy under which we have so long lived and prospered.
2.44
Morning Post
8 April 1848
Government is necessary, because the will of the people is always fluctuating and generally wrong.
3.05
Northern Star
8 April 1848
UP THEN AND BE DOING. A sluggish, inert people never can win rights; and these are only the rewards of courage and perseverance, for God helps but those that help themselves.
Northern Star
10 April 1848
Nothing in my mind could be more ridiculous and cruel than to hazard the long looked for prospects of the people, by any rash collision with the authorities ...
THINK! THINK! THINK!
... and remember - that one false step may seal the fate of millions.
3.19
The Times
8 April 1848
Mr F O'Connor is only the stalking horse of a bolder, or rather less scrupulous party, who use him and abuse him at the same time ...
The Irish Confederates are as martial as their friends across the channel. They cannot speak without alluding to rifles and pikes, and the soft infection has spread to the English delegates.
3.40
Daily News
10 April 1848
... so far from fearing or imagining that any force of rioters or revolutionists could come up to London by rail, this mode of travelling would appear to guarantee a certain degree of means and prudence on the part of the visitors, quite incompatible with the intentions of riot.
4.15
John Bull
8 April 1848
... bloody insanity ... the Chartists have attempted to draw from its scabbard the sword of civil war, and ... have their prohibited procession, and hold their prohibited meeting.
4.49
Morning Post
10 April 1848
... a perfect state of defence, barricades formed of bags of sand having been thrown up along the parapet of the building. These barricades are between four and five feet high, and so arranged that small guns can be used upon the mob ...
Illustrated London News
15 April 1848
5.17
Northern Star
15 April 1848
A member of the House of Commons assured me ... that there were not 4000 people. Sir de Lacy Evans - a military man - asserted ... that there were not more than 35,000. Some of the newspapers set us down at 8000, some at 10,000, some at 15,000, some at 20,000, and one - the Morning Post - at 150,000.
5.45
Northern Star
15 April 1848
... add the several numbers given by the several papers, make a total of them, double it and then you will be nearer the mark.
6.26
Daily News
11 April 1848
In good truth, we loyal Londoners, cut a very foolish figure yesterday evening, and he is a bold man who even this morning, can look at his neighbour without a blush or a smile. Here have the government, the parliament, the authorities, and the population of this great city, ... all been frightened out of self-possession by a cock and bull story of revolution.
7.00
The Times
11 April 1848
The main body of the Chartists are in general peaceful subjects, though ardent politicians and radical reformers.
7.15
John Bull
15 April 1848
Instead of 5,706,000 as stated by the Hon Member for Nottingham, the number of signatures had been ascertained to be 1,975,496; and on numerous consecutive sheets the signatures were in one and the same handwriting.
7.40
Punch
April 1848
8.08
Northern Star
15 April 1848
Chartism - heretofore under a bushel - laughed at by the press and mocked in the House of Commons, now finds a place in every newspaper, and haunts every man's brain ...
8.13
The Satirist
16 April 1848
What a demonstration in favour of 'peace, law and order!' and this too, let it be kept in mind, on the part of the great body of the Chartists themselves. The 10th of April 1848, makes out a strong case for the extension of the franchise.
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