Chartism
Ireland

In 1842, all eighteen of Daniel O'Connell 's Irish parliamentary party at Westminster voted in favour of the Chartist petition which, along with its radical democratic demands, included repeal of the 1800 Act of Union, i.e. the restoration of a separate Irish parliament. O'Connell had declared himself "a decided advocate of universal suffrage" because no one could properly fix "where the line should be drawn" between servitude and liberty.: 136 But the Chartists in England, and in their much smaller number in Ireland, were also to accuse O'Connell of being unreliable and opportunistic in his drive to secure Whig favour.
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