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DISSENTERS Penal Laws

If any defender of these proceedings chuses to suppose
it was not wished or nor intended the Laws in
question should be executed, I will readingly accede adapt</hi>
to the proposition: let us him see what advantage he
will derive from it.

Let Intolerance in itself be a thing ever so bad,
& ever so justly odious to this country there can be no doubt but it may be pressed for
from real judgment & with a good conscience.
But if their approbation of these Laws was founded depended
upon the expectation of their not being executd
the Laws now are not only abusive, but known
to be so by those who gave them their support.
This expectation can be founded on nothing but the
persuasion of their being contrary to the universal
sense of the nation: for nothing less than the
universal sense of the nation in this matter
could screen the objects of them from being overwhelmed
in a torrent of persecution for one moment
— when I say universal, it cannot be supposed
that I mean to exclude from the offer all to a man, but toexclude the existence of such a party as with the Law on it's side could sustain itself against the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	330	Info in main headings field	dissenters penal laws
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	31334
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