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THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT

by any other country, not excepting the United States of America. There was little more to be said. The "malignant and cowardly demagogue" haunted the debate. Forty-nine members voted with Duncombe, and 287 against him. Macaulay and Roebuck had slain the great Petition.[1]

  1. ↑ Annual Register, 1842, pp. [152-]160, summarises the debate; the full report is in Hansard's Debates, 3rd series, lxiii. 13-91.
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