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1820 Feb. 18
Radicalism not dangerous
III. Experience
II. Ireland
Radicalism its origin
Quantity possessed is no power
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As in the breast of every man to whose conception the objects have presented themselves the desire of possessing in an unlimited quantity the aggregate mass of the reputed instruments of felicity has place, so, in every situation, proportioned to the means belonging to him /at his command/ is the quantity actually possessed by him. In Hindostan, according not to speak of so many other countries, the Monarch while there was one was sole proprietor of all the whole quantity of wealth in the immoveable shape in the whole country: of that wealth to the possessor of which as such, belonged, wherever he could find it all wealth in every other shape. At present that Monarch has for his successor the President of the /an imaginary/ Board of Controul whose throne is in Whitehall: the Directors of the East India Company in Leadenhall Street giving their signature to orders, and on each occasion the Whitehall Monarch either adopting them or substituting what others he pleases. Under the Asiatic Monarch the consequence was on the part of the inhabitants a state of such insecurity and misery as admitted not of any thing beyond it: and under the European Monarch, if ever in the midst of his more important occupations /labours/ or /and/ amusements it has occurred to him to bestow a thought on the subject, his endeavours if any , to improve the /ameliorate that/ condition of the people, of those 60 millions of immediately besides 40 millions of indirectly miserables, have hitherto most notoriously and uncontrovertibly and /not to say/ even confessedly been unsuccessful been productive of little if any success.
In England under its matchless constitution, this same state of things had place during the reign of the founder of it, William the Conqueror, this same state of things had place with relation to by far the greatest portion of the whole mass: and for the doing away of all exceptions, such preparation as could be made by the language of power /by language in the mouth/ was made by the judicial and official instruments of that best of Kings and it is with undissembled satisfaction that that same language is repeated from Blackstone by their existing successors.
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Title: [1820 Feb. 18 Radicalism not dangerous]Description: 1820 Feb. 18 Radicalism not dangerous III. Experience II. Ireland Radicalism its origin Instruments of felicity Quantity possessed is no power 10 {8} 2 If as above it be for the interest of the whole community that of these instruments of felicity the aggregate mass should be divided in shares as equal and thence relatively /proportionally/ as small as is consistent with the existence of government, and thence of political society, the greater the portion is which any functionary of government as such is in possession of, in comparison of that member of the community whose share is the smallest, the more extensive is the sacrifice made of the interest of the whole number of the members of that community to the interest of that one, and in so far as any such sacrifice has place, {it may be said with uncontrovertible truth that} the interest of that same ruling one is in a state of direct opposition to that of those who are subject to his rule, and that accordingly so long as this plan of division and in a word this state of things has place be whatsoever number of millions their number may amount the interest of all those millions is continually sacrificed to the interest of that one. But in proportion as this sinister sacrifice is large, the relative quantity of felicity in the country, in so far as depends upon the constitution /structure/ of the government is small, and in one word bad the constitution of the government is in one word bad. But the man by the exercise of whose will, and to and for the promotion of whose separate /whose instrumentality, and for whose own[?]/ interest, all those /so many/ other interests are made a continual sacrifice, if he be a bad man, what is this chief upholder of a constitution thus bad, but a bad man? if he be most excellent, in what is it that he is most excellent? In what unless it be in the exercise of oppression and depredation: of oppression in virtue of and in proportion to the excess of power[?] that he possesses in the shape /article/ of power, of depredation in virtue of and in proportion to the excess he possesses in the article /shape/ of wealth. In one word if in every thing is it in virtue that he is excellent? is it not rather in vice: always understood if in the continued practice of oppression and depredation there be vice.
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Title: [1820 Feb. 16 Radicalism not dangerous]Description: 1820 Feb. 16 Radicalism not dangerous III. Experience II. Ireland 1 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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