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1819 Jan 1
Radicalism not dangerous

XXII ++ §.5
III Experience
I. United States
1 §.5. Sigbut

§.5. Proof from Sigbut of the tranquillity felicity of the United States in all
points dependent on the goodness of the government

On this occasion this the wish evidence of so many intelligent travellers
as have of late years visited the United States, can not fail
to present themselves to every reflecting mind. In respect
of On some topics their reflect has been universally generally unfavourable
to that country. This, for example is the case in respect of climate, and situation
considered with reference to comfort and health and
comfort. In other respects it has been somewhat various:
in this case are the topic of morals and manners.
But of these two points the first has no bearing at
all upon the present subject: and the other no considerable or determinate bearing.

The question is concerning tranquillity felicity in all degrees respect in so
not as depending upon other causes, but only in so far as depending upon the state of government: religion
included, in so far as it has ac been acted upon by
government.

The comparative tranquillity of the lower orders condition in respect of general content and political tranquillity
that is: the great majority of the people, and the superiority
of that country to this in these respects be this those that respects, being
so universally notorious and so compleatly undeniable, and
so universally notorious, all that has been left to the defenders of the existing
abuses in this country has been to attempt to persuade
the people men that that superiority the effect is the result
not of that cause but of some other causes: [+] and in particular [+] and in particular
the felicity
it the plenty of land
as yet unoccupied, the
facility of obtaining it in
property, the dispersedness thinness
of the population,
and in consequence and the consequent
the absence of that facility
which malcontents
from whatever cause
have for conspiring
legally and rendering
themselves troublesome to their rulers the hands in which the powers of government are lodged.

to the plenty the of new land, the first property
on land as yet unoccupied being obtainable by every any
one disposed to occupy it — obtainable on comparatively
easy terms; 2 in the next place to the comparatively
dispersed state of the bulk of the inhabitants in that country:
and

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Date_1	1819-01-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	156	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
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