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<head><gap/> Two Letters</head> | |||
<note>Preface</note> | |||
<p>The system of silence or evasion where practicable — of false pretence<lb/> | |||
where necessary is the system dictated by over-plenitude of<lb/> | |||
power, labouring under that sort of distress which in that case situation<lb/> | |||
sets so light — distress of argument.</p> | |||
<p>The privilege of silence — of silence is a privilege<lb/> | |||
which in the vailing order of things is never can not refused<lb/> | |||
to wrongdoers guilt of any description class or quality. It is the <gap/> ground<lb/> | |||
and the stronghold and the invaluable privilege of <gap/> malefactors: can it be defused<lb/> | |||
to Ministers. It is assessed and exercised by the meanest<lb/> | |||
wretches that grovel creep crawl under the law: can it be refused wrested from<lb/> | |||
to those who sit <gap/> and enthroned above the law.</p> | |||
<p>Uneasiness, the all-embracing expression under which<lb/> | |||
Locke has <gap/> principle of action the spring of action in all cases has been well or<lb/> | |||
ill reduced by Locke — uneasiness, the <gap/> in the side of the most<lb/> | |||
irksome of two opposite uneasinesses lots of uneasiness will in this<lb/> | |||
as in other instances <gap/> the scale.</p> | |||
<p>In the one scale will be the interests of the community<lb/> | |||
in respect of the option between the last-made of disparity of<lb/> | |||
convicts and the worst: with this disrepute which as it is<lb/> | |||
<gap/> may be supposed to attend on a bac the wrong choice. In<lb/> | |||
the other will be the danger of giving offence to formidablle persons who<lb/> | |||
require to be counted with by substituting dispatch to d<lb/> | |||
procrastination, punctuality to perfidy sincerity to treachery.</p> | |||
<p>The D<gap/> therefore depends upon the probity, the independence<lb/> | |||
the industry, the public spirit of parliamentary<lb/> | |||
men.</p> | |||
<p>No violation of public faith — no violation of public duty was ever<lb/> | |||
more flagrant — never more compleatly destitute of all shadow of pretence: no<lb/> | |||
criminals, placed above law by situation, were ever more compleatly self-con<gap/><lb/> | |||
by necessary silence.</p> | |||
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Two Letters
Preface
The system of silence or evasion where practicable — of false pretence
where necessary is the system dictated by over-plenitude of
power, labouring under that sort of distress which in that case situation
sets so light — distress of argument.
The privilege of silence — of silence is a privilege
which in the vailing order of things is never can not refused
to wrongdoers guilt of any description class or quality. It is the ground
and the stronghold and the invaluable privilege of malefactors: can it be defused
to Ministers. It is assessed and exercised by the meanest
wretches that grovel creep crawl under the law: can it be refused wrested from
to those who sit and enthroned above the law.
Uneasiness, the all-embracing expression under which
Locke has principle of action the spring of action in all cases has been well or
ill reduced by Locke — uneasiness, the in the side of the most
irksome of two opposite uneasinesses lots of uneasiness will in this
as in other instances the scale.
In the one scale will be the interests of the community
in respect of the option between the last-made of disparity of
convicts and the worst: with this disrepute which as it is
may be supposed to attend on a bac the wrong choice. In
the other will be the danger of giving offence to formidablle persons who
require to be counted with by substituting dispatch to d
procrastination, punctuality to perfidy sincerity to treachery.
The D therefore depends upon the probity, the independence
the industry, the public spirit of parliamentary
men.
No violation of public faith — no violation of public duty was ever
more flagrant — never more compleatly destitute of all shadow of pretence: no
criminals, placed above law by situation, were ever more compleatly self-con
by necessary silence.
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