Chartist (chartist)

and a. [ sent at i on, payment of members of Parliament, and vote by ballot, all of which they demanded as constituting the people's charter. The members of the extreme section of the party, which favored an appeal to arms or popular risings if the charter could not be obtained by legitimate means, were called physical - force men. The Chartists disappeared as a a party after 1849. Also Charter ist. The attempt to apply the law of supply and demand to human labour, as rigorously as to cotton, coal, and mere commodities, had brought on in France the French revolution; in this country Luddite riots, Chartists , and rick burning. R. J. Hinton , Eng. Radical Leaders, p. 117. II. a. Of or pertaining to the Chartists; connected with Chartism. The distre of the labouring cla was manifested in England by bread-riots, by threatening Chartist proce ions, and by demands for help addre ed to Parliament. Edinburgh Rev. , CLXIII. 263. The Chartist movement represented one wing of that activity [the Reform agitation), and the more popular or radical one. R. J. Hinton , Eng. Radical Leaders, p. 58. chartle (chärt'les), a . [ chart + -le .] Not charted, or not provided with a chart; hence, without a guide or guidance: as, a chartle rover.