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1820. Apr. 4
Collectanea. Morng Chron's View of Ministry's conduct on the Manchester Massacre
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Morn. Chron. April 4. 1820.

"The diversity in the constitutions of various minds would
"make us hesitate to accuse a contravertionalist of want of
"good faith in argument, because he professes to be satisfied
"by reasons which appear to ourselves to be insufficient; but an
obstinate perseverance in arguing a question which his
adversaries do not raise, and thus avoiding the question to
which they require an answer, has long been named and
noted by all systematizers of the art of wrangling as one
of the meanest tricks of a practical sophist(ignoratio
elenchi). The Courier, in spite of repeated corrections professes
to believe that the Magistrates of Manchester
are accused, because, being at liberty to produce evidence
in defence of their conduct, and of that of the yeomanry
they did not produce any such evidence. This is a sophism
of the species that we have described. No one has
wondered that the Magistrates, being the accusers, have
not entered into a regular defence of their own conduct,
"Whose memory is written on the earth,
"In yet-appearing blood."

What has been remarked is this. In the course of the
Parliamentary discussions which followed, as well as
in the paragraphs of the Ministerial Papers, which
almost

Identifier: | JB/109/138/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1	1820-04-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings	Parliamentary Reform
Folio number	138	Info in main headings field	Collectanea Morng Chron's View of Ministry's conduct on the Manchester massacre
Image	001	Titles	Morn. Chron. April 4 1820
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
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