Kammala wannan jumla: Dunning ya shiga cikin ƙungiya ta Chartist a cikin 1840s kuma ya yi aiki tare da William Lovett. Ya ci gaba da tallafawa 'yancin siyasa bayan shan kashi na Chartism ya zama mai sassaucin ra'ayi. Koyaya, a matsayinsa na shugaban kungiyar kwadago ya ba da shawarar gujewa shiga cikin rikice-rikice da makircin manyan siyasa na jam'iyya kuma ya kalli mummunan shiga cikin kamfen din siyasa mai yuwuwar rarrabuwa musamman lokacin da suka shafi batutuwan kasa da kasa. Misali, Dunning ya ba da shawarar rashin shiga tsakani a lokacin 1863
Rikicin tawaye na Poland kuma ya goyi bayan 'yancin kai na Kudu a cikin Yaƙin Basasa na Amurka; kamar wasu tsoffin Chartists, watau, John Bedford Leno da Patrick Matthew, ya nuna rashin amincewa da karfafa gwamnatin tarayya a Amurka kuma ya kwatanta Ibrahim Lincoln da Xerxes.