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1830. Sept. 24
J.B. to France against Peers Letter II against Peers

122
Before U.S. Government was
established universal has
been the notion of the non-fitness
of a 2nd Chamber.
Yet, erroneous. Cause of
the error, prejudice – custom-begotten
and authority-begotten. England
prosperous and having a
2d Chr was regarded
as contributory
to the prosperity – it
being one of the three
authorities by whose
conjunct will the
prosperity was produced
& kept up.

113.
Cause of that opinion this.
In their united hands
was the united power
of good & evil, reward
and punishment, applicable
to the purpose of
maintaining that opinion.
Thence, for misrepresentation
to the benefit
of the few and detriment
of the many both forms
were applicable and
applied: so against true
representation for the
benefit of the many.

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114
Till the Revolution of 1688
(the short interval in the
12 years' civil wars excepted)
the community
was divided into
1. plunders and oppressor
General and his servants –
2. plunderers and oppressors
his servants being distinguished
from the
people at large by
being plundered & oppressed
as well as plunderers
and oppressors.

115.
Came the Revolution,
the division changed
1. The Plunderers & Oppressors,
King, Lords, &
Commons. Coplunderers
and oppressors the
rest of the community before.

116.
Trinity here in unity
all benevolent, all excellent,
all incomprehensible.

117.
Specially important in
the political triad
is the incomprehensibility.

118.
Correspondent quality
in the people requisite,
blindness: add
and indistinct and
erroneous vision.

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119
From relative blindness
much reward was thence
forward to be got; from
vision, if correct and
distinct, nothing better
than punishment:
therefore, from
discrimination

120
Blindness not being the
order of the day, I venture
on discrimination,
though without hope of
reward, yet without
much fear of punishment,
Tenterden and
Scarlett notwithstanding.

121.
Prism in hand I decompose
this carnal
Trinity. National prosperity
ill-effect – Obstacles,
King Lords & Commons:
powerfullest Lords,
as makers and masters
of Commons: causes, Public
Opinion Tribunal members
are as far as sharing
disposition to substitute
a form of government
having for
its object the happiness
of the many to one
having for its object to
maintain plunderage
and the happiness of
the few by oppression
at the charge of the
many.

122.
By this explanation incomprehensibility
I have made myself understood.

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Date_1	1830-09-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	112-122
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