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1829. Feby 3
For J. B. to Connell Collectanea
Codification advocated
Morning Chronicle, Feby 3rd 1829.
Ireland.
Catholic Association.
[From the Morning Register of Friday last.]

Mr. O'Connell: **** I have but one regret with
respect to America, and that is, that she has not before this
adopted a regular code of laws: but so attached has
America been to British institutions that she still clings
even to their unknown common law, and the heterogeneous
mass of decisions from which men in vain endeavour
to pic out justice. But some of the States are taking steps
to remedy this defect, and America is bound to give this additional
lesson to the world, by having a code of laws at once
cheap and expeditious [hear, hear!]. The colonies of England
as well as of America are sending us remittances, and some
have even reached us from France. Does the Duke of
Wellington wish that the societies from which those remittances
come should be proceedinged with? The societies
in New York hold their meetings weekly — these
may give to discontent improper hopes, which, though we
may wish to regulate, we may not ultimately be able to controul.
I conjure the Statesmen of England to look to the prospect
that is before them [hear, hear, hear!]. The sympathy manifested
towards us by the Americans we are worthy of; for we admit
that in every state the people are the Sovereign Power, and
that Kings are but appointed for their good and benefit-we,
too, think that any administration which is not for the good of the
people should be abolished — we repeat the declaration of George IV.,
that power was given to the Monarch for the good of his people [hear!
and cheers]. But the people cannot be free unless they have the full and
free choice of their representatives [hear, hear!]. It was supposed that
the choice of representatives being left completely to the people, none
but mere demagogues and declaimers would be elected by them;
but America has proved that where the people have a free election,
a person must have some pre-eminent merit before he will presume
to offer himself as an object of the people's choice, and in America
none but the wisest and the best men have been elected as representatives
[hear, hear!]. The Americans by adopting the democratic spirit of the British
Constitution, have preserved safely and securely all their popular institutions [hear, hear!].

Identifier: | JB/109/282/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1	1829-02-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings
Folio number	282	Info in main headings field	For JB to Connell Collectanea
Image	001	Titles	Morning Chronicle Feby 3rd 1829 / Ireland Catholic Association
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	1828
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	35937
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