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1820 Feb. 24
Radicalism not dangerous

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III Experience
II Ireland
3 §.6. Coincidence with
Radicalism
1. Secrecy

oppression from that cause. In the impossibility of resisting the
tide force of public opinion and popular sentiment the dependant
would find an excuse which could not operate find with more
or less effect to soften the rigour of a patron an oppressing
patron: and in that same force be might and

in many instances would find a protection power by which the
contemplation aspect of wh which the patron would be deterred
from exercising the oppression with whatsoever power the
desire of exercising it might be all the while be operating
at the bottom of his heart

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Still impossible to
say how many more
might not have concurred,
could that
measure have been
carried on in that
perfect secrecy which
is secured in the
case of Election by
ballot.

At the time it is impossible to say in what
numbers men who but for the fear of the displeasure of others
would have joined the Association were by thes such fears
prevented from joining it. Giving To give to suffrage
perfect freedom was an object the attainment of which
could not be accomplished effect by a an apposite set of regulations having
for its direct and avowed end the establishment of covering
all suffrages with a veil of impenetrable secrecy. As
secrecy was incompatible with a mans entering into the
association, the d use and demand for it on the occasion of
the delivering of votes would not be apt at the outset,
until forced into notice by a considerable body of experience,
be apt to present itself. But since then the importa necessity
of secrecy of suffrage to freedom of suffrage in the ordinary state
of things has rendered itself apparent manifest not only to highly the most cultivated but
to
to the most scantily
imperfectly cultivated
minds. Accordingly it
as the history of the time
shews, no sooner did
universality of suffrage
present itself to the view
of the Associates as necessary to compleat and perpetuate the advantages that had been gained, than secrecy of suffrage presented itself to their view as an
indispensable accompaniment to it + + Plowden

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But no sooner did
reform as to Election
present itself to Assocations'
view, than
they adopted secrecy
of suffrage.

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Date_1	1820-02-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-6
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
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