The Revolutions of ‘48 continue: Feargus E. O’Connor, Member of Parliament for Nottingham, speaks to a crowd of fifty-thousand at Kennington Common, across the River Thames from Parliament. After the speech, O’Conner presents the House of Commons with a petition signed by nearly two-million Chartists, demanding universal male suffrage.
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