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<head>N.S. Wales Illegality</head> | |||
<p>9 Jan<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> 1803</p> | |||
<note>Beginning</note> | |||
<p>or by the resolution of the House of Commons in the case of<lb/> | |||
the Middlesex Election, before the judgement thereby given<lb/> | |||
was revised <add>amended</add> by the legislature: with this difference however<lb/> | |||
that the illegality of the power exercised <add>presented</add> appeared<lb/> | |||
<add>itself</add> to me as much <del>more</del> clearer and more <add>unquestionable</add> palpable in the<lb/> | |||
<add>more</add> modern instance, than at the time it did in either of<lb/> | |||
the two <sic>antient</sic> ones. Admitting the illegality, I never<lb/> | |||
saw reason to impute in these <add>once memorable</add> former instances any such<lb/> | |||
deluded marks of culpable consciousness, any such grounds<lb/> | |||
for the apprehension of wilful abuse of the same hand,<lb/> | |||
as appeared but too visible in the more modern case.<lb/> | |||
The immediate sufferers indeed were of that <add>ill-fated</add> class, to<lb/> | |||
whose sufferings the sympathy of the more fortunate classes<lb/> | |||
seems in a great measure to be denied—with whom<lb/> | |||
the superior and leading classes will scarce <add>acknowledge</add> recognize<lb/> | |||
themselves <add>can scarce bring themselves to acknowledge</add> to have a common interest. But by this<lb/> | |||
faintness in the alarm, the danger is rendered but the greater.<lb/> | |||
As in war so in particular <add>constitutional politics as in war</add>, it is in the weakest quarter<lb/> | |||
<del>that</del> the quarter from which least resistance is expected<lb/> | |||
that the force of the assailant naturally directs itself.<lb/> | |||
In constitutional politics <add>the practice of despotism, as in the practice</add> as in physics, is it upon the<lb/> | |||
<foreign>omnia vires</foreign> the most <add>friendless</add> helpless and least noticed <add>among</add> patients<lb/> | |||
that experiments deemed hazardous are <add>preferably</add> made in the first<lb/> | |||
instance.</p> | |||
<note>the man who remains<lb/> | |||
an unconcerned spectator<lb/> | |||
of oppression, because<lb/> | |||
he hopes not to be reached<lb/> | |||
by, deserves to be <gap/><lb/> | |||
by it.</note> | |||
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N.S. Wales Illegality
9 Jany 1803
Beginning
or by the resolution of the House of Commons in the case of
the Middlesex Election, before the judgement thereby given
was revised amended by the legislature: with this difference however
that the illegality of the power exercised presented appeared
itself to me as much more clearer and more unquestionable palpable in the
more modern instance, than at the time it did in either of
the two antient ones. Admitting the illegality, I never
saw reason to impute in these once memorable former instances any such
deluded marks of culpable consciousness, any such grounds
for the apprehension of wilful abuse of the same hand,
as appeared but too visible in the more modern case.
The immediate sufferers indeed were of that ill-fated class, to
whose sufferings the sympathy of the more fortunate classes
seems in a great measure to be denied—with whom
the superior and leading classes will scarce acknowledge recognize
themselves can scarce bring themselves to acknowledge to have a common interest. But by this
faintness in the alarm, the danger is rendered but the greater.
As in war so in particular constitutional politics as in war, it is in the weakest quarter
that the quarter from which least resistance is expected
that the force of the assailant naturally directs itself.
In constitutional politics the practice of despotism, as in the practice as in physics, is it upon the
omnia vires the most friendless helpless and least noticed among patients
that experiments deemed hazardous are preferably made in the first
instance.
the man who remains
an unconcerned spectator
of oppression, because
he hopes not to be reached
by, deserves to be
by it.
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