The petition was rejected (Harry Browne 1999).
Following the rejection of the petition for reform, the chartist movement became disoriented and during this time a number of violent demonstrations took place. The worst of these was at Newport in November 1839, where a demonstration was fired upon by troops and 24 chartist members were killed. The leader of the protest, John Frost, was transported. Chartist leaders, including Feargus O"tmConnor and Bronterre O"tmBrien were also arrested and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment (Taylor 1988).
The chartists petitioned the government again, in 1842 and later in 1848. Both attempts were unsuccessful even though the 1842 petition contained 3,315,752 signatures and the later petition contained 5,700,000 signatures. The petition of 1848 was laughed out of Parliament when they found that only 1,975,496 signatures were genuine. Among the fictitious names were the names of the Queen and the Prime Minister (Taylor 1988).
During this time Feargus O"tmConnor also created "The Chartist Co-Operative Land Company" which worked on the basis that money collecte
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er to be made law. The petition was rejected (Harry Browne 1999).
The chartist leadership was split in its approach. Some of the leaders advocated physical force while others considered that moral force was the way to get the reforms they wanted. The differences would cause conflict at the very heart of the movement.
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