Excerpt from Memoranda of the Chartist Agitation in Dundee
Those who have carefully noted the political and social signs of the times, must have observed that periods of severe commercial depression usually synchronise with those of bitter political agitation. When trade is brisk, employment plentiful, and wages good, the working classes, as a rule, do not trouble themselves much respect ing their political grievances, real or imaginary. But when commercial depression occurs - when wages have a downward tendency, and masses of men are idle who would willingly work - invariably do they fall back upon their political wrongs, as being the cause of these industrial evils. Such has also been the experience in Dundee. A long continued spell of stagnation in the staple trade of the town developed a situation which caused a large por tion of the working men to eagerly accept The People’s Charter as the grand panacea for all the ills of life, and to join heartily in the movement for its adoption.
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