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According to the intelligence that arrived here yesterday
morning, you are at the eve of the great crisis: an option to
be made between the best of all governments & the worst. This
crisis is in my view of the matter a blessing. The government
which your predecessors have been preparing for you is no
better than a mixture of Aristocratical with Monarchical
tyranny. Aristocracy for its own security finds itself under the
necessity of alliviating in some degree the yoke imposed by
Monarchy: but while this yoke is thus rendered in some degree
less galling, the hopelessness of any thing like a complete
liberation from it, is unmeasurably encreased. In the confederacy
of the several branches of the Aristocratical interest of
which in my Codification Proposal you will see a list will
soon be under your eye, all clustering around the Monarchy
& united to it & to one another by one common bond of sinister
interest, the great body of the people have a confederacy of
enemies: enemies as irresistible as by the nature of man
they are rendered implacable, & these same enemies their rulers.
To tyranny in government no bar, but impotence does the nature
of man admit of: & that bar, nothing but the principle above-
mentioned - the principle by which all rulers are rendered
displaceable & at short periods, by those over whom they rule: a
state of things which in the expression wears a hue of impossibility,
but of which the actuality is in the Anglo-American
United States so happily & so completely demonstrated
by experience!
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