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1820 Jan 1
Radicalism not dangerous

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III. Experience
I. United States
3 §.5.

Into the question how influence exercised by regarding the facility of obtain land /the property of the
and the influence exercised in general tranquillity by
that circumstance and that regarding the circumstance of density of the
population and the influence exercised by it to the same effect
magnitude of the spots on which large multitudes
out any design on the present occasion — belongs not to the present
subject to . With regard Now as to the density of population.
these number many however be brought to view now by that
Population of New York 40,000; population of S Philadelphia
100,000 and upwards. Supposing on the part of
the people, any tendency to riot discontent, disaffection
depredation, riot — been in matter of these instances s surely is the
quantity of population so small as not to afford the materials and
the means: as In nothing of this is Philadelphia a practical the
population equals or rather exceeds that multitude of the inhabitants inferior to the greatest which in England Britain
Britain is to be found in Manchester or in any of the other parts towns
by which symptoms of discontent have of late shewn themselves in which by the desire of reform, and for the frustration of that desire
those symptoms of complaints which have been
answered by slaughter and calamity have been produced.

But the question pr here is concerning the forms of the
government, and concerning the influence which that circumstance
may reasonably be supposed to have be on pru
the production of that condition on the condition of the people in respect of content tranquillity
and those other points of felicity of which the connection
of which with the form of government has never, in this
country at least, unless of late, in particular, been matter of doubt.

Now as to this point, the suffrages of the late travellers
have, as every body knows, been unanimous. The supremacy
of the powers of the people over that of all
their functionaries — the absence of so all glaring and
abuse — of oppression or depredation in any of
its forms: and the universal [+] [+] and no less
intense than well-grounded attacks and such
attachment, manifested towards the form of government, by all
conditions, high and low, in any one of the those United States.
excepted always that oppression and depredation the subject of which the
are those slaves whose condition forms so indelible a
reproach
reproach to the
morality of those rulers by
which the powers of
government are lent to the continuance of it.

Identifier: | JB/137/158/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-01-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	158	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1816]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	46875
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