... one that had a tendency to break up due to arguments amongst the key leader figures in the organisation. Some believe that this internal disunity showed that the chartists were not politically nor intellectually mature enough to obtain and use the vote. Throughout the Chartist campaign the leadership remained constant although not designated with Feargus O'Connor 'steering the movement,' he held the movement back from the use of 'ulterior measures' yet hinted towards physical force and then later withdraw calls for rebellions. It was such actions as these that led to divides in the chartist movement between 'sensible' chartists such as William Lovett and 'wild men' such as O'Connor it was these type divides in the leadership of Chartism that left the movement fragmented. The differences between these two very diverse characters led to leadership problems and divisions for the movement, this lack of clear leadership and tactics and methods it ...

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