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1820 Jan. 28
Collectanea Radicalism not dangerous

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III Experience II. Ireland
4 §.2. Democratic ascendency established
Volunteers Universalists
This not aristocratic

To J. C. Copy what enclosed in pencil brackets in
Hardy p. 472. the afterwords in p. 275, 276

Page 272. Resolved unanimously. — That it is highly necessary
for the delegates of counties, cities, and towns, in
conjunction with the other freeholders of their several
counties, to forward the plan of reform agreed to by this
Convention, by convening county meetings, or whatever
other constitutional mode they may find most expedient;
and that they not only instruct their Representatives
to support the same in Parliament, but also request
the Members of the several cities, towns boroughs and
manors, within their county, to aid in carrying the
same into effect.

"Resolved unanimously. — That the necessity of a
Parliamentary Reform is manifest, and that we do exhort
the nation, by every constitutional effort, to effectuate
such Reform."

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p.275. The reader who may not remember the days
of this military convention will be naturally anxious to
enquire, what sensation its adjournment, or rather indeed
its downfall, excited? To the best of my recollection,
little or none whatever. This indifference can be accounted
for; its basis, from circumstances at that time,
perhaps, insuperable, was altogether too narrow; the
delegates did not, nor could they then include the catholic
body; yet, to talk of extending the right of suffrage
where property was to be met with, and, at the same time,
shut out the majority of the nation, was a strange contradiction.
That the Catholics, therefore, should lament
the extinction of an assembly, which, whilst it proposed
to erect a temple of general freedom, could not
bring them even within the vestibule, was not
at all to be expected.

Identifier: | JB/137/283/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-01-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	283	Info in main headings field	collectanea radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	47000
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