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1819 Decr 14
Radicalism not dangerous

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1 Nature of the

§1. Charge Accusation against Radicalists. J.B.sThe authors Counter-position argument.

or 1
Case as to the liberticide
measures and
radicalism.
Justification
of them says
by or means of radicalists,
with or without
correspondent intention,
but for those
measures, great evil
will be produced.

In regard to the present liberticide measures, and their bearings upon radical parliamentary reform the case

The case stands thus stands thus: In justification of them, and as proof of the
necessity a charge is made what is alledged is that
by the supposition or by means of the supporters of radical reform whether with or without changing the direct correspondent
intention, some great evil, unless prevented by these
measures, will be produced: and it is for the prevention of this evil
that not only these reformists, but all the other members
of the whole community, are deprived of so many large a part of those securities
against misrule which the state of the its laws, in
the United Kingdom establishments institution, and mo customs, and modes of thinking has till now afforded.

or 2 Questions for consideration
1. Allegations of
evil ever more
unsupported
2. In a free country
measures more productive
of undeniably
evil even adopted

In particular as the and for the shape, or one of the Those whose patience will carry them through
shapes, in which the evil in question has been said to be apprehended what the following pages I am desired to
is that which has been designated by the phrase the subversion it can ever happened to damage
of the rights of property have been ded, or

The topics to which the attentionon this occasion of the reader - is
solicitude the one hand the notion of the
allegation, on the other hand the notion of
grounded on it

Was ever allegation of apprehended evil more
perfectly destitute of support?

or 3
J.B. as grounded
of complaint
1. Oppression as
member of the community.
2. False accusation
as a radicalist

Were ever In a country said to be the seat on the
of political liberty, were measures morepregnant
more with more serious and undeniable evil, ever adopted and employed

On the second of these topics I propose not to touch at present It is with the first that what remains of these pages will be occupied. |

By this measures measures themselves I feel
myself ++ injured in and oppressed any general capacity of a member of
this great community.

[+] Had they been peculiar
to myself my own injuries
would not have been worth
mentioning: an accordingly
would they have been: but I have millions to share with me, even in that injury which is the least extensive.

By the imputation in which they have been grounded
I feel my an additional injury cast upon me
in the character of a radical reformist. | [+]

Note

An I would describe myself by my country. How can I? The Irish
Union Act has left me no means. As an Englishman shall I say? But if there be any injury, Englishmen
have not any greater part
in it than Scotchman. As
a Briton shall I say? Britons
have not any greater
part in it than Irishmen. As a Briton -and- Irishman shall I say? Language will not suffer it. Bet I am I just
as truly an Irishman in I am a Briton, in so far Briton includes Scotchman

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Date_1	1819-12-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1 - or 3
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	097	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
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