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1830. Sept. 22
J.B. to France against Peers Letter II against Peers

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23.
Objection IV. Perniciousness
by vexatious voluntary delay.
To the account of this,
and thence of the evil producible
by it, limit assignable
none.

24.
Objection V. Perniciousness
by perpetual exclusion
of such beneficial measures
which as would have
been introduced within
the time, but cannot
be after it.

25.
Good & evil are intertranslateable.
By the delay,
they thus may be let in pontalsuffering
to any amount
which otherwise would
have been prevented.

25(a)
Examples Calamities as
ber Const. Code Ch. XI.
§ 5. Preventive Service
Minister.
Causes
1. Want of a law by
which the calamity
would have been prevented.
2. Want of a law repealing
one by which it has
been caused.‡
‡ Sub Note
This one of the evils
from too extended territory:
still more from
distant dependencies.

26 Objection VI. Perniciousness
by delay or perpetual
exclusion, of an unlimited
and indescribable aggregate
of beneficial
measures, in the lump.

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27
Occasion, on which the
magnitude of this evil is
particular obvious, and
impressive, the present.
Wanted for such a regeneration,
and all-comprehensive, Code.
Every thing requires to be
looked at, with a view
to change.

28.
Particularly now that –
1. for initiative propositiary mouths of
all Members have been
opened – like Balaam's
ass's.
2. This Tribune will
be sent to the lumber-room.
3. As time progresses, so
will facility & lengthiness
of speaking: thence of
unavoidable delay.

29.
This obviated in the is obvious and has been the
noticed case of in the U. States.

30
To the authority adversely-interested, no secret
will be this effect
of the all-comprehensive
delay. Partisans of the
2nd. Chamber will they
all be.

31.
Under Matchless Constitution,
this is a matchlessly
effective instrument
of evil.

32.
To them, abuse is all profit: reform
therefore must be
gradual; it must be temperate, & therefore
gradual.
To these gradualists say
We have our Dictionary.
Synonymous to Gradual
Reformist is Anti-Reformist.

33.
Tories, perhaps are honest Anti-Reformists;
Whigs evidently dishonest do.

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34
H'arpy Castle so supported by
Blackstone Whigs, with ammunition
stolen from
Radicals attack it to garrison
it: thence minimizing
the damage to it.
Friends of the people,
to blow it up.

35.
We have our Whigs – you
yours.

36.
Objection VII. Perniciousness
in the lump by prevalence
given to minority over
majority.
This are is an all-comprehensive
evil: not immediately producing
suffering, but
pregnant with evil
in all other shapes.

37.
In case of division, the
majority is incontestably the sole test
& of rectitude
the ratio of greater to lesser
number is the measure of
the bribability of rectitude.

38.
To a first add a second
Chamber, the majority
of the first may be converted
into a minority,
by addition of the population
of the second. That
this effect, with the consequent
substitution of
wrong to right, should
be produced always, is
possible: that it is frequently
is probable.

39.
The Probability of this reversal
is as the number of in
the 1st Chamber inversely:
in the 2nd directly.

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Date_1	1830-09-22	Marginal Summary Numbering	23-39
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