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THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT
great Huddersfield demonstration deserves special mention. The following is a list of the banners and mottoes:
- Full-length portrait of O'Connor.
- Banner setting forth the points of the Charter.
- "We demand Universal Suffrage."
- Justice holding the scales with Equal Rights balanced against the People's Charter.
- "The Charter our Right."
- "Equality of All before the Law."
- "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny and ought to be resisted."
- "The Right of every Man to Liberty is from God, from Nature, from Birth, and from Reason."
- "The whole of the principles contained in the People's Charter we demand."
- "God save the Queen, for we fear no one else will."
- "The Glorious Republic of America, and soon may England imitate that country: its people happy and contented."
- "England expects every man to do his duty."
- "God helps those who help themselves."
- "The Land, the Land, the right of every living man."
- "The Rights of Labour, soon may they be acknowledged throughout the world."
- "Every man his own Landlord."
- "Down with the accursed factory system, the school of immorality, profaneness, wickedness, and vice of every description."
- "England, Home, and Liberty."
- "No Bastilles: the Right of every man to live upon his native land."
- "Equal Representation.
- "No distinction before the Law."
- "Honesty is the best policy: No Humbug: No Corn Law Fallacies: the full rights of all we ask, no more we demand, this we will have."
- "God gave the earth for man's inheritance: a faction have taken it to themselves. Justice, Justice, Justice!"
- "Universal Suffrage."
Then came:
Operatives sixteen abreast
The Carriage
drawn by four greys; postillions, scarlet jackets, black velvet caps and silver tassels; containing the People's Champion
Feargus O'Connor, Esquire,