JB/012/336/002

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1825 July 16
J.B. to Bolivar

+ 8
3
Introductory Letter

Yes, Sir, Those sacrifices, which to you are so familiar, will enable
you with proportionable a weight of authority to
hitherto without example in the world, to insist on
if most of the like sacrifices on thet part of
similar though so much inferior sacrifices, on the part of
all who under you,[+]
[+] not but that
But the keeping confining thus with the path
pale of duty, these internal and, though indispensable but too natural adversaries of
the people, you will would, I fear find a more no too less difficult task than
you have found in subduing those open and avowed enemies.
I do not say a more dangerous: but I do fear
it will would prove a little if at all less difficult one.

In speaking of the sacrifices made by yourself
in the shape in question, I speak, of course, only from
what is in papers and profession: and from of such
documents direct evidence, such independently
if circumstantial evidence, you can not but aware how
far from conclusive the probative force can not
but appear, at such so vast a distance, to
any tolerably well exercised eyes. When Should your
time admitt of your allow you to glance bestow a
glance on the paper in question, you will then be
enabled in a condition to judge, whether any other proof equally
unequivocal can in and uncontrovertible could in the nature of the case
be given, of the sincerity of those professions, than the
adoption of the ruling principles of the Code in question,
and coupled with the undeviating application of them through all
its details.

We are in the part of the world struck with a
mixture of horrors, exultation, and still unquieted
apprehension, by the intelligence of the assassination projects from
which you have hitherto been preserved. Against such dangers the most affectual preservative (need
I mention it?) is the giving in fact act and fact, a substantial real and substantial
and consistent basis, to that form of government which
in
in profession has the
greatest happiness of
the greatest number
for its end. This being
once established the political
enemies of the founder of
it will not behold in
his destruction any prospect
of advantage, capable of counterbalancing the danger and infamy of the a murderous attempt. Supposing for example the English government capable which
bad as it is, it happily is not) of resorting to such recourse, — on this supposition, antecedently to the completion of establishment of the United States constitution, it might [1]
[1] have appeared worth while to employ
them:
against Washington,
for
example:
but; that great work accomplished, the
more or less probable profit, and thence the motive, would have
ceased.

Identifier: | JB/012/336/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1825-07-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	336a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 336.	Info in main headings field	jb to bolivar
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2 / f2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4397
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