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1820 Feb. 24
Radicalism not dangerous

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III Experience
II Ireland
4 §.6. Coincidence with Radicalism
2. Universality

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2. Universality.
Necessary to universality,
not that all
should vote, only that
all should be free to
vote.

2. Next comes universality of suffrage. To the establishment existence
of this universality of suffrage what is necessary is on the occasion in question — that all persons
should actually vote, but that all persons should, as against
every external legal impediment find themselves at liberty to vote:
that the on upon no person, by the execution of qualifications
or otherwise any exclusion should be put.
[+] on the ground of for want
of property or forany
other cause

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Sole cause of exclusion,
not want —
not of property, but
orthodoxy, i.e. Protestantism.
This to
a certain extent at
first: but per Sheffield,
as Radicalism
came in view, exclusion
vanished.

That, in the case in question, such was the state of things, had been/will be rendered is
manifest, If in any instance The Protestants being
that part of the population in which the institution appears
to have originated, if upon any description of persons an
exclusion had been would be put, not want of property but want of
orthodoxy would have been the cause. For That for a
at the outset in this or that part of the country exclusion
for that cause had place to a certain extent, seems to
be sufficiently declared. But latterly if Lord Sheffield a declared and contemptuous adversary to
radical reform is to
be believed as the institution
spread, exclusion on this ground vanished: and it was in proportion as
radical reform became forced itself upon mens view into mens eyes and hearts that
exclusion vanished!! and in a proportion ratio greater than
that of its population to the Protestant part, Catholicism
soon found place in the body of the Associated Volunteers.

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Not by want of money
to buy arms was
universality diminished.
By government
furnished arms
16,000: to arm the
rest was as nothing
to the rich associations.

Will it be said that though on the ground of want of property no direct and manifest declared
exclusion was put upon any one, yet an indirect and not
less effectual exclusion was produced by the need of money for
the purchase of arms and for subsistence during the time occupied
in training? As for arms, to the extent that has been (16,000)
they were furnished by government: and for as to the remainder of the
total number of the associates, property in the arms not being necessary
to the use of them, the cost of a the requisite supply to all those who could
not
not with convenience
to themselves make the
purchase, would be an
a mere nothing among
the men of first rate
opulence whom who by participation
in the common
interest were engaged in
heart as well as head in the design, till parliamentary reform came upon the carpet, and gave as we shall see an opposite direction turn to the current of aristocratic interests
and desires.

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Date_1	1820-02-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-9
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
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