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According to the intelligence that arrived here yesterday<lb/> | <p>According to the intelligence that arrived here yesterday<lb/> | ||
<del>morning</del>, you are at the eve of the great crisis: an option to<lb/> | <del>morning</del>, you are at the eve of the great crisis: an option to<lb/> | ||
be made between the best of all governments & the worst. This<lb/> | be made between the best of all governments & the worst. This<lb/> | ||
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better than a mixture of Aristocratical with Monarchical<lb/> | better than a mixture of Aristocratical with Monarchical<lb/> | ||
tyranny. Aristocracy for its own security finds itself under the<lb/> | tyranny. Aristocracy for its own security finds itself under the<lb/> | ||
necessity of | necessity of <sic>alliviating</sic> in some degree the yoke imposed by<lb/> | ||
Monarchy: but while this yoke is thus rendered in some degree<lb/> | Monarchy: but while this yoke is thus rendered in some degree<lb/> | ||
less galling, the hopelessness of any thing like a complete<lb/> | less galling, the hopelessness of any thing like a complete<lb/> | ||
liberation from it, is unmeasurably <sic>encreased</sic>. In the confederacy<lb/> | |||
of the several branches of the Aristocratical interest of<lb/> | |||
which in my Codification Proposal <del>you will see</del> a list will<lb/> | |||
soon be under your eye, all clustering around the Monarchy<lb/> | |||
& united to it & to one another by one common bond of sinister<lb/> | |||
interest, the great body of the people have a confederacy of<lb/> | |||
enemies: enemies as irresistible as by the nature of man<lb/> | |||
they are rendered implacable, & these same enemies their rulers.<lb/> | |||
To tyranny in government no bar, but impotence does the nature<lb/> | |||
of man admit of: & that bar, nothing but the principle above-<lb/> | |||
mentioned - the principle by which all rulers are rendered<lb/> | |||
displaceable & at short periods, by those over whom they rule: a<lb/> | |||
state of things which in the expression wears a hue of impossibility,<lb/> | |||
but of which the actuality is in the Anglo-American<lb/> | |||
United States so happily & so completely demonstrated<lb/> | |||
by experience!</p> | |||
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According to the intelligence that arrived here yesterday
morning, you are at the eve of the great crisis: an option to
be made between the best of all governments & the worst. This
crisis is in my view of the matter a blessing. The government
which your predecessors have been preparing for you is no
better than a mixture of Aristocratical with Monarchical
tyranny. Aristocracy for its own security finds itself under the
necessity of alliviating in some degree the yoke imposed by
Monarchy: but while this yoke is thus rendered in some degree
less galling, the hopelessness of any thing like a complete
liberation from it, is unmeasurably encreased. In the confederacy
of the several branches of the Aristocratical interest of
which in my Codification Proposal you will see a list will
soon be under your eye, all clustering around the Monarchy
& united to it & to one another by one common bond of sinister
interest, the great body of the people have a confederacy of
enemies: enemies as irresistible as by the nature of man
they are rendered implacable, & these same enemies their rulers.
To tyranny in government no bar, but impotence does the nature
of man admit of: & that bar, nothing but the principle above-
mentioned - the principle by which all rulers are rendered
displaceable & at short periods, by those over whom they rule: a
state of things which in the expression wears a hue of impossibility,
but of which the actuality is in the Anglo-American
United States so happily & so completely demonstrated
by experience!
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