A splinter faction escalated colonial reform demands directly to Parliament, resulting in permanent expulsion

Evidence

But the danger was also more immediate and threatening still. It was not generated by an impassioned outburst of a few, but by a critique lodged in … As it turned out, some did go much further. Ardesch, Tollen, and Thieme, who had stayed on at the Harmonie Club after Van Hoëvell adjourned the meeting, sent a petition directly to Parliament on 26 June 1848 making those demands that had been shelved in the petition to the King by Van Hoëvell and his supporters. These included freedom of the press; limiting power to the Governor-General; an end to the monopoly of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (the Dutch Trading Company); reform of the monetary system; and establishment of a new bank to stand alongside the government-controlled Java Bank. They also condemned the slave trade, “not only by Chinese and Arabs, but even by members of the Indies Advisory Council and directors of government ministries,” what they called “the immoral selling of bodies and souls” (AR, KV 391x). — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 529

Categorization

• XREF: The radical wing’s demands — press freedom, curbing the governor-general, ending the trading company monopoly, denouncing the slave trade — mirror the broader 1848 revolutionary moment and connect to the chapter’s framing of metropolitan revolutionary currents reaching the colony.