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1819 Dec. 1
Radicalism not dangerous

E.1 5
III. Experience II. Ireland
II
§.2. Democratic ascendy established
Volunteers universalists

or ?
§.6. Coincidence with
radicalism

(n) Portion 5. (n 1) In an unlimited proportion these never were of the class
of universal suffrage men: of men whose sole source of subsistence
was composed of the wages of labour

Proof

This follows from of necessity l from the nature of the case
as stated brought to view under the preceding positions. Principal of
existence there could be none. At the commencement no assurance
could have been entertained of the accession of any such
numbers as the result of the plan exhibited. No one
who offered would be rejected: or if rejected at all it would be
from bad ch some objection on the score of character, not from
any such cause as want of property. In a case of this
sort want of property would as little be regarded as
constituting a cause of exclusion, as it does in the case of
the like military service under the constituted authorities.

If In the state of change in question, if any circumstance could have operated in the
character of a cause of exclusion, it must have been that
of difference of religion and in fact there seems reason to
think that of Catholics the number of Catholics was not
so great as that of Protestants.

But suppo in what proportion so ever that cause
of difference may have operated as a a cause of exclusing
in that same proportion it tends to narrow the number
of men, who, in a number say of 80,000 as above, say of 60,000 as above
say as above though at the last there were no more
than the 42,000 which so soon enrolled themselves, could
have been composed, and in that country of any class
superior to the one here in question.

In Ireland the great bulk of the population do not
derive their subsistence it may be said not from wages of labour
but from husbandry in farms on the smallest scale. True: but that
in point of appropriate aptitude men of that county and class in 1783
were much superior to those who subsist on the wages of labour in the
country
country at this time,
will hardly be asserted.

Identifier: | JB/137/287/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-12-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	or ?
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	287	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
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