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1820 April 26
Radicalism not dangerous

ulto
III. II. Ireland.
3 §.3. Fruit, a Golden age

Will it be said that this was not democratic ascendency& ?
for that those armed bodies wd were composed of
men serving in the character of privates, under the command
of Officers: and that these Officers were many of them
if not most of them, Members of the aristocracy several
of them among the highest in the conjunct seats of power,
rank and property, as above observed and acknowledged.

True: such they best h of this description were
the Officers of this army in a certain proportion: and But let
that proportion have been ever so large: suppose them all of
these Members either of the House of Peers or of the Members
of the House of Commons. Would the With any the
less propriety would the result have been termed democratic
ascendency? Not it indeed: No surely and for the simple
reason. Over any one of the privates in the army, the Officers no one Officer had no
all never, at any one time any power other than that
which the privates chose to give them all of them to give to
him. No things conscription: no military here. Nor
was it that the Officers chose did the Officers so much as choose, the privates: it was by the
privates that they themselves were chosen Officers.

All this time it was the people at large — it was
the privates that governed, so far as they close chose to
govern. As to the members of the Aristocracy, including
the creators and instruments of the Monarchy, each
in the character of member of the Democratic Association
had a voice indeed but no one had any more.

To prevent evil in any shape nothing was there
in the breast of any one, but the awe he stood in of the rest,
But — such is the effrontery of them — such the blandness of so many mere
anarchy
anarchy is still the name
that so long has been and
so long will continue to be
given to the only sort of
government that is any
thing better than an established nuisance.

Identifier: | JB/137/174/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-04-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	174	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 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	46891
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