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1820 Feb. 16 Radicalism not dangerous
1820 Feb. 16

Radicalism not dangerous

III. Experience

II. Ireland

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The eyes of the people could not have been so compleatly opened to the tyranny exercised over them by the British Monarch and his British servants without being in some degree opened to those functionaries in Ireland in whom that tyranny had under all changes found its ever ready instruments. A transfer from the joint hands of a corrupt instrument of corruption called a Parliament in England with another subordinate instrument of corruption called a Parliament in Ireland into the single and unchecked hands of the Parliament in Ireland in a state of undiminished corruption would be it was no secret to them but /no but/ a transitive[?] from the frying pan into the fire. {The preferableness of a more /somewhat/ distant yoke to to one in immediate contact has since been manifested by experience in the case of /in that […?] fruit of the Union/ Catholic emancipation. Though in Britain and in Ireland Catholics, Church of Englandists and Presbyterians all now lie prostrate under one common despotism, the tyranny exercised in Ireland by the ruling cast of the 600,000 over the three millions has already experienced considerable mitigation, and is in a fair way to ever be /become/ extinguished altogether.}
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