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1822 Oct. 10
Tripoli. Securities against Misrule

The great

The great object is to give notoriety to complaint,
to complaint where the acts of the sovereign or of those in
authority under him is the subject of it. But the Sovereign
has no need of making complaint to any body: and the mean of
notoriety all means actual and imaginable are already at every moment in
his hands.

In The career of oppression two stages may be distinguished:
in the first its its gratification by in the
appropriate and direct means shapes: in the next and last,
it seeks to give perpetuity to it by depriving
its victim of all hope of relief.

To both these stages the remedy be it what it may
must apply itself.

The Sole ultimate As to relief against oppression the only ultimate means
of relief is self-defence – successful self-defence. But
to this had other preliminary instrumental ones

To self defence on the part of a countless multitude
– to self defence and to every intermediate preoperative operation
knowledge of each others sufferings is necessary: knowledge
of each others sufferings and concert for the purpose of devising
the means for terminating giving termination to them is necessary. The first
case therefore of oppression in this its last stage is to block up
all the armies of such knowledge to apply the gagg to
all mouths, the manacle to all pens every hand that holds a pen, the bandage to all
eyes the obturating and deafening wax to all ears.

Identifier: | JB/034/160/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 34.
Date_1	1823-09-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	98-101
Box	034	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	160	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c10 / c7 / d33 / f33
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10434
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