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"How infinitely more valuable do the 60,000 Constitutional
votes appear, when wd we consider that they
carry with them the evidence of a genuine
patriotic feeling in the voters? What improvement
may we not anticipate when the people of the
better conditions are thus public-minded,
hearty, & unanimous!

"It is to the use of the Ballot, beyond a doubt, that
much of these valuable dispositions have been
owing. Even supposing that the suffrage
were open, Frenchmen wd not prostitute their
votes so universally as Englishmen. They
are in every respect higher principled
& more independent: they have fewer wants,
smaller families, & no ostentation: nor are
their hopes & fears, like those of an Englishman,
so arranged as to make them the willing
slaves of the rich & powerful. But though
open suffrage would not be quite so bad
in France and in England, it would be idle
to expect under such a system the
general
habit of conscientious voting which
now does so much honor to the French electors!'

Identifier: | JB/109/292/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings
Folio number	292	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	B&M 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	Arthur Moore; Richard Doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	35947
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