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they hope for from their trouble? Short lived instruments at any
rate: tools as they may expect to be called if they yield to his
choice, exposed to his enmity if they resist it.

The difficulties which press against the necessary
alternative, of vesting the choice in the Proposer on one hand, or
in the hands of third persons on the other, form a dilemma
which would have occasioned no small degree of embarrassment
to the author of the contract plan, had a spot for it been as yet
to choose. From there difficulties, whatever they may be, he
has however all along had the satisfaction of looking upon it
as absolutely freed, by the happy accident of a choice already
made for the same purpose, by authority perfectly competent
& above all objection, & under circumstances that take away
all possible ground of imputation as well from the Proposer
on one hand as from Administration on the other. It was no
choice of his, it was no choice of theirs: of the odium, of the
blame, if there were any, not a particle could fall either
upon them or him.

Will the connection of his Penitentiary Plan
with the original one, will his right to graft the one upon the
upon the other be disputed? — He hopes not: surely not
with justice. The object as far as they both go, will not be disputed
to be the same. Whatever that plan does, this does: to say
nothing of so much more which it does, & of which at that
time there was no conception. This is but a project: —
certainly

Identifier: | JB/119/191/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	191	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11
Penner		Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39702
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