ABSTRACT

Containing over 100 pamphlets, this edition provides a resource for the study of Chartism, covering the main areas of Chartist activity, including agitation for the Charter itself, the Land Plan, the issue of moral versus physical force and trade unionism.

chapter |25 pages

The Life, Writings, and Principles of Thomas Spence 1

Author of the Spencean System, or Agrarian Equality

chapter |13 pages

Reasons in Support of an Extension of the Elective Franchise to the Working Classes

Submitted to the Serious Consideration of the King and His Ministers. 1 In a Letter from the Reverend H. Price. 2 TO JOSEPH HUME, 3 ESQ. MP {From Tait's Magazine.}

chapter |9 pages

Address and Rules of the Working Men's Association,

For Benefiting Politically, Socially, and Morally, the Useful Classes. 1

chapter |7 pages

An Address From the London Trades' Committee, 1

Appointed to watch the Parliamentary Inquiry into Combinations, to the Working Classes

chapter |7 pages

Rich and Poor

A Conversation Between Thomas Tomkins and William Wilkins Shewing That the Splendour of the Aristocracy is the Cause of the Misery of the Poor; That the Labourer is the Most Important Member in the State; That the Great Are Dependant on the Industrious; That the Industrious Are Independent of the Great; That the Income of the Nation is Entirely Produced by the Labourer; That the Labourers do not Obtain a Fair Portion of What They Produce; and That the Remedy for Their Sufferings is to Be Found in the Extension of the Franchise, the Vote by Ballot, and the Shortening of the Duration of Parliament, Which Will Enable Them to Procure the Repeal of the Corn Laws, and all other oppressive and injurious Enactments. 1

chapter |8 pages

An Address on the People's Charter, 1 by the Reverend H. Price, 2

TO His Fellow Townsmen, THE OPERATIVES OF KIDDERMINSTER, TO PUT THEM ON THEIR GUARD AGAINST THE BASE CONDUCT OF THE CONSERVATIVE OPERATIVES, WHO, AS ‘WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING,' ARE ENDEAVOURING TO MAKE THE HONEST OPERATIVES A TOOL AGAINST THE LIBERTIES OF THEIR COUNTRY

chapter |15 pages

The People's Charter;

Being the Outline of an Act to Provide for the Just Representation of the People of Great Britain in the Commons' House of Parliament: Embracing the Principles of Universal Suffrage, No Property Qualifications, Annual Parliaments, Equal Representation, Payment of Members, and Vote by Ballot. Prepared by a Committee of Twelve Persons, Six Members of Parliament and Six Members of the London Working Men's Association, and Addressed to the People of the United Kingdom. 1

chapter |12 pages

An Address to the Working Men of England,

Especially Those from Eighteen to Thirty Years of Age, Who are Capable of Serving in the Standing Army. 1

chapter |184 pages

The Political Preacher;

An Appeal from the Pulpit on Behalf of the Poor. 1

chapter |26 pages

The Trial of the Rev. Mr Stephens 1 for Uttering Seditious Language

Before Mr Justice Patteson, 2

chapter |55 pages

The Book of Murder!

A Vade-Mecum for the Commissioners and Guardians of the New Poor Law Throughout Great Britain and Ireland, Being an Exact Reprint of the Infamous Essay on the Possibility of Limiting Populousness, 1 by Marcus, One of the Three. 2 with a Refutation of the Malthusian Doctrine