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1820 Jany 31
Radicalism not dangerous

§:6 or § 15
III Experience
II Ireland
(12) (1) Hardy Failure causes
Convention downfall Causes

Hardy 294 Charlemont reviews Volunteers.

Hardy p.275 to p 280 Convention causes of its "downfall" i.e. its succeeding
inefficiency from the time of its first adjournment, when on its being opposed
by the Irish Parliament.

"The readers "Of this military Convention". "what sensation"
shd the "adjournment, or rather its downfall excited? asks
Mr Hardy. Answer "Little or none whatever. Then came the
causes of "this indifference." i.e. his account of them, including
every cause perhaps but the obviously true one. By Those endeavours
of the aristocratical leaders by which the adjournment had been
procured effected at the only time when if their leaders had not turned
against them the Volunteers could have proceeded in the track of reform
could find t that is to say when the government were still defenceless
would find little difficulty in keeping them from reassembling
in convention when by the succession of peace to now, Government
was left at liberty to pour in upon the people whatever
number of regulars might be requisite. Forgetting all that
political knowledge of mankind which he had not only himself learnt
but as copiously been communicating, Mr Hardy sees a prelude
to see the cause of the downfall of the Convention System partly in
the magnitude, partly in the fickleness natural to the people
in all places and all times.

As a Parliamentary reform it is a bad thing, and it is a good thing:
it is a bad thing for the purpose of reprobating the only man who had
it at heart the Convention and of these Leaders had not betrayed them
could and wood have carried it into effect, it is a bad good thing when p.279
in subsequent and tranquil periods, the House of Commons applied
an "almost continued resistance" a bad thing for the purpose
of reprobating the Monarchists for joining with him and his fellow
Aristocrats in continuing to oppose it.

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