Show recalling early days of chartist movement discovery of a 1792 1702 copy ot of tom dalnes rights lUg lits 0 of ian blan in the thatch of an old house in cumberland E england recalls those stirring early days in the working mens movement when ahen possession of that fiery rebels book was wag cause for transportation to the prison colon colonies le it was a time ot of misery and degradation among the weavers and then first took form the revolutionary democratic agitation 11 which finally culminated in tile the chartist movement sweeping through the rank and file of ell english and scot working people in tho the years when our north and south were breaking apart over slavery chartism Chartis in sought universal suffrage sull rage vote by ballot equal electoral areas and abolition of 0 property qualifications all of which were in time secured sec red with those hard won accomplishments today commonplace facts ot of everyday life we do well to remember that one of its guiding spirits wag w as more at home inside prison walls walla than out nod and that ills his devoted followers at the risk of their freedom read ills his printed words in closest secrecy and hid bid them away in roof thatches |