JB/037/081/002

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1821 Aug. Sept. 1
J.B. to Toreno

As it is with vituperation and defamation, so without much
difference So as to is it with sedition, and circumvention and their et cæteras. In a government
that has for its object the greatest happiness of the greatest
number no little or no need is there for
any such denounciation with exclusively appropriated
punishments. A public functionary is a man Gentleman: his property
do not seem to me to be altogether aware of this: with my respectful
compliments, do me the favour Sir, to convey to them the information of it.
is the property of a man. By sedition and so forth if
any real mischief is done by it, it is to the person or the
property of some men that the mischief is done. Ill
indeed must the public functionary, – who ever he is – the Monarch if there
be be one, ill indeed must he have comported himself if on the part of the people at large there is
not, on every occasion, and in all manner of ways,
more promptitude to protect him afford protection to against injury in
this or any other shape to him than to afford it to an individual
not so distinguished.

In a country the government of which has for its end in
view the greatest happiness of the greatest number, let a man
seditionize – let a man insurrect – see what he will get by
it. He will be laughed at: like laught at, as an untoward lamb might be,
if seen running and butting against its mother: He would be
laughed at and there would be an end of it. Colonel Burr had
insurrected. Colonel Burr tried to make himself Emperor of
Mexico. Colonel Burr tried thought to make himself Emperor of
the United States: many is the laugh I have of had with him
about it all this – I who write to you. In the United States Had he had his entrails
torn out of his body? as a a man in his place would have been so dealt with in England? has he seen them burnt before his face?
No: there he is in New York, subsisting upon quietly on as other lawyers do, the indiscriminate
defence of right and wrong, now at the end of his career, just as he did
at the commencement of it. Ask Miss Wright, Sir, if it be not so.
See what her book (View of Society and Manners in the United States) translated ere this into French says of him
in one note of the Notes.

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Date_1	1822-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	081	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	11296
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