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1820 Apr. 9

Radicalism not dangerous
8 8 § Bill of Rights abrogated

At the very time of the overthrow The last of the had 30,000 soldiers in his pay
but neither had he any considerable part of the people in his pay, nor
any sufficient part of their representatives, and instead of
courting the Clergy and promising them continuance and encrease of
their pay, he insulted was such was his folly them and made manifest his intention
of stopping them of it. The Revolution of 1688 was accordingly
against the King, and by the people herded and led by a majorities of
the Clergy the majority of the Representatives of the people and even the Lords that the Revolution
of 1688 was effected.

But now under the fourth of the Gwelphs [ or if
he has any his successors] should any restoration of the rights
of the people be effected it must be against the Monarch
against his Clergy, against the Lords against the self-stiled representatives
of the people that it must be effected: for all these
the vast majorities are either actually in his pay in what comes
to the same thing if it be not more, actively and constantly
in expectation of it.

To every one of these authorities belongs an interest
distinct from and opposite to the universal interest the interest
of the whole people: of the existence of their opposite and that corrupt sinister
interest there is not one of them that is not fully
aware: on the spur in conformity to the direction given of that corrupt and sinister interest there
is not one of them that does not act: there is not one of them
that is not prepared to continue to act, so long as the
patience of the people shall continue.

At the time of the Revolution [as at the time of the preceding
civil wars] the contest contention was between one part of the ruling
few and another part of the ruling few, each calling in aid as
many as it could of the subject many. In one time the contest
is between the ruling few, on the one part, and the subject many
on the other. Between the ruling few on their island and the ruling few
all over the neighbouring continent the conspiracy against the subject many
every
every where, is become
manifest to all eyes.
Universal slavery and
misery as till now in Spain
or universal liberty and
felicity as now in Spain
or as now in the United America
such is become the alternative.

Identifier: | JB/137/235/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-04-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	235	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c8 / e8
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	46952
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