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Disfranchising
Disfranchising
§.5 Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members
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☞. Employ the modes of aptitude, as being at first, or not till after the deduction?
Their aptitude is in their acres and their ancestors
§.5. Evil 4. Encreasing the members of a class preeminently destitute of appropriate aptitude: namely Country Gentlemen /Members/.
1. As far as it goes it makes bad worse: {or rather that which so long as the present system continues is relatively good it suppresses /extinguishes/ and puts what is worst and worst in its place.}
In respect of the cast of persons it tends to introduce its tendency is to substitute to men of all occupations taken promiscuously the class of Country Gentlemen.
Now in respect of every one of the three elements of appropriate aptitude, this class is with reference to the interest of the people the most inapt
1. In respect of appropriate probity. Their characteristic /distinguishing/ interest is a permanent aristocratical interest, opposite to the interest of the people. They are constantly on the look out for money if not for themselves for their dependent relations and other dependents of all classes for offices cloathed with emoluement and especially for those sinecures for the obtainment of which the name of Holy Ghost is profaned by richly rewarded blasphemy, the matter of factitious dignity, Knighthoods, Baronetcies and Peerages for themselves and families. Members of that legion of which the name is Aristocracy – they are continually on their knees before that prince of evil spirits whose name is Monarchy: ready to sacrifice upon its altars on each occasion the blood and treasure of the people of that people whom they hate and despise as much as their fears will let them.
Secure in possession of their acres, they will /can/ never cease to regard themselves as secure in the possession of those /their/ seats: of those seats, in which the terrific and corruptive influence conferred by their acres, will never cease to force those who are subject to it to place them.
Apology for Borough Mongers
{With such of my friends whose favourite watch-word is Borough-mongers I agree in regarding as […?] and receptacles of corruption those who deal in /whose traffic is in these/ Borough Seats. But I can not /it is not in my power to/ agree with them if it be their opinion that, when the vote a man gives is not that which he would give, if neither good nor evil to himself in his individual capacity were a looked for consequence of his vote, it is better the vote should be the result of the fear of evil, than of the receipt or hope of good. Hawkins[?] &[?] Lopez[?] friend.}
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Title: [1819 Aug. 22 Disfranchising or]Description: 1819 Aug. 22 Disfranchising or Apology for the Borough mongers 5 But now on the other hand suppose that instead of being transferred to populous towns the seats are transferred to Country Districts, things in other respects continuing on the same footing as at present. What will be the consequence? Instead of opulent men of all /those of opulent or well connected or educated/ classes as it might happen, the hands these seats would pass into would be the hands of Country Gentlemen: Peers included: men who, as compared with opulent and well connected or educated men of other classes put together are in respect of all the several elements of appropriate aptitude taken together, in a peculiar degree, and for the reasons so often given, likely to be, not to say sure to be, in a high degree, and to a practically mischievous effect deficient. ☞ Subjoin here or draw up and insert elsewhere a statement of the particulars in respect of which the interest of Country Gentlemen Peers included is more decidedly adverse than that of other persons at large of equal opulence, viz 1. Interest in […?] cases dear[?]. Probity 2. Looking to Peerage, advancement in d o and Baronetage 3. Indolence thence None attendance as compared with men of business 4. Ignorance, the result of high education, fox hunting &c. Intellectual aptitude and active talent. 5. Habitual insolence by lording it over tenantry. As to aversion to Income Tax, they would be on no better footing than other men of equal opulence: and for certain they would be more likely to be craving for provision for younger children and heir apparent by more wars & distant dependence, with officers, and commissioners &c.
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