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1820 Feb. 2
Radicalism not dangerous

§ 1 or 7 §.18
III Experience
II Ireland

(1) Prospect spoilt
Whigs the authors
J.B.'s Reflection

Men who have property are necessarily the natural the enemies of those who have none.
those who have no property are not the natural enemies of those who have

Had the Aristocrats Whigs chang acted up to their professions of
supporting the cause of the people, the Convention would have
continued in activity, Parliament would have continued in
obsequiousness, democratic ascendency would have been established
farms and property would have continued undisturbed and the
the universal happiness religious tolerance, civil peace and happiness would have continued universal
democracy would not being needless in that case, and the evils and frequent with
preponderant and manifest inseparable from its forced establishment uncompensated evil would not have found any to advocate
it. But Aristocrats were on that occasion what Aristocrats
have ever been and ever will be in in every other . . They were men
They consequently would not endure to part forgo or forbear to acquire with any piece
which they regarded themselves capable of retaining able to possess or obtaining
They therefore For the advantage of being exercising tyranny over the many/systematic oppression and depredation
they chose to submit remain subject to it in the hands of one. to [+] this as they always have
chosen and always
will choose

Democratic ascendency being thus hopeless, the real friends of the people
so beheld in democracy in democracy with all its preparatory evils
their sole recourse, with all its evils that is with all the evils
inseparable from the enterprise, even supposing it successful:
for supposing it once established all evil would be at an end.
So they doubtless thought, for so the United Americans thought,
even so in that instance the event had already demonstrated.

Of the horrors that followed the existence is in a general
view sufficiently notorious: the particular details, to any one whose patience endurance
will carry him through them in Mr Plowden's history would
be full of instruction. The matters will need not be dubious.
By the Aristocrats The Whigs will impute the the horrors will be imputed to
those who were for giving extent and permanency to the advantages
that had been obtained for the universal interest: by the Democrats
to those who betrayed and sacrificed it

they will get carried
into practice the principles
which gave birth
to the Manchester tragedy
and which unless the
people of Brit this
country are content to
be reduced to the condition
of Slaves with Reverend
Hays and E . . .
for Grand Inquisitors, will
be fruitful productive in so many
other tragedies.




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1820-02-02

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137

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radicalism not dangerous

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387

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radicalism not dangerous

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