'You are a Chartist, Sir; you are a leveller,' the Home Secretary ...
'You are a Chartist, Sir; you are a leveller,' the Home Secretary shouted at the respectable Mr Ashworth, manufacturer, when he came on a Free Trade deputation.
The self-protective instinct of the aristocracy felt in the League its most dangerous enemy.
But the instinct of society as a whole was more sensitive to the growing menace of Chartism.
The Parliamentary papers were first put on sale in 1835; division lists first published in 1836. The impulse came from the Statistical Society of Manchester, which, as a control experiment, also investigated Rutland. Leeds was, I believe, the first municipality to investigate itself.
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