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great Huddersfield demonstration deserves special mention. The following is a list of the banners and mottoes:

1. Full-length portrait of O'Connor.
2. Banner setting forth the points of the Charter.
3. "We demand Universal Suffrage."
4. Justice holding the scales with Equal Rights balanced against the People's Charter.
5. "The Charter our Right."
6. "Equality of All before the Law."

   "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny and ought to be resisted."

7. "The Right of every Man to Liberty is from God, from Nature, from Birth, and from Reason."

   "The whole of the principles contained in the People's Charter we demand."

8. "God save the Queen, for we fear no one else will."

   "The Glorious Republic of America, and soon may England imitate that country: its people happy and contented."

9. "England expects every man to do his duty."

   "God helps those who help themselves."

10. "The Land, the Land, the right of every living man."

    "The Rights of Labour, soon may they be acknowledged throughout the world."

11. "Every man his own Landlord."

    "Down with the accursed factory system, the school of immorality, profaneness, wickedness, and vice of every description."

12. "England, Home, and Liberty."

    "No Bastilles: the Right of every man to live upon his native land."

13. "Equal Representation.

    "No distinction before the Law."

14. "Honesty is the best policy: No Humbug: No Corn Law Fallacies: the full rights of all we ask, no more we demand, this we will have."

    "God gave the earth for man's inheritance: a faction have taken it to themselves. Justice, Justice, Justice!"

15. "Universal Suffrage."

Then came:

Operatives sixteen abreast
The Carriage

drawn by four greys; postillions, scarlet jackets, black velvet caps and silver tassels; containing the People's Champion

Feargus O'Connor, Esquire,