ABSTRACT
The simultaneous meetings and the subsequent adoption by the Convention of the “ulterior measures” were followed by a new series of events, in which both the Chartists and the government displayed a mood to fight to the bitter end, and which culminated in temporary victory for the latter. About midnight the dispersed crowds gathered again, singing the Chartist anthem, “Fall, Tyrants, Fall,”and amidst deafening cheers proceeded for Holloway Head, in the outskirts of the city, where they swore vengeance against the assailants. The physical-force agitators also did their best to kindle the passions of the people. Public meetings were held in a large number of cities, and hundreds of resolutions were adopted and printed in the Chartist papers, charging the authorities with high treason to the Constitution. The Chartist movement, as all other movements in favor of the oppressed, necessarily occasioned great uneasiness among those who would be deprived of unjust power and corrupt privilege.
