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1831 Aug. 13
Colonization Society

Ch. V Colonial Constitution
§.2. What it may be

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Look now to the two chimæras — the actual
and the potential, the actually existing and the potentially
existing. In what is to be said on behalf of each

The great bone In the first place Look to the Second Chamber — in
that may be seen the great bone of contention. The actual
Chimæra has the a Second Chamber — the Senate: the
potential has none. But the United States Federal Government,
works well: and the Senate is part and parcel
of that government: [ergo the Senate works well.] Thus for
those who are not used to thinking, this is good Parliamentary
logic: for them the inclusion is a legitimate one.

Not having time for invention, the founders of the
United States Constitution went to work by copying what they
saw. In The English constitution they saw they beheld liberty (for by
this name was Good Government christened) in his cradle

In this cradle, instead of a doll was a toy called a Second
Chamber — the House of Lords. Lords, they would not have:
for the sound was offensive to their eyes and to their ears. But a Second Chamber
presented no such cause of disgust in their minds: and to with the idea of a Senate
was attached stood associated the in their minds, by etymology and the antient
Roman history the idea of wisdom stood associated

Thus then it is as between the actual chimæra
and the potential chimæra, precedent is what the actual chimæra has
precedent on its side. Precedent is a substitute,
and to the great mass of mankind a most commodious
substitute, to thought. It is like the quondam placarded
washing-machines. It saves time: saves labour, saves
every thing that a man, the in particular a man without
honesty, judgment or hars or judgment — would wish be glad to save

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