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1820 Feb. 19 Radicalism not dangerous
1820 Feb. 19

Radicalism not dangerous

III. Experience

II. Ireland

Radicalism - its origin

Factitious dignity

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That by this means he is really enabled to give the more effect to his will is alas! but too true: as true as /no less true than/ it is, that in the nature of man and things it is not in the nature of man in that situation to entertain a will the effect of which in proportion as it has any will not be to render so much the worse the condition of the people.

But whence is it that by this means he is enabled thus to give effect to his especially pernicious will? Only by keeping up and maintaining in your mind error - most pernicious error in your minds. /by imposing upon you/ /by deceiving you/ by deluding you/ /by/

Look then to those who never cease to call for money money wrung out of the peoples necessities[?] by taxes /taxation/, for the support of this factitious and pernicious dignity. Call upon them to answer - press them with this dilemma. Do you believe that what you say? is true? then where is your understanding /common sense/?: do you know it to be false? then where is your honesty.

Oh but the answer is ready. An answer there is and it is the only one. This is matchless Constitution! these are English institutions!
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    Dignity of the Crown. Dignity of the Peerage of the Judges.

    Thus it has been seen all of it so much […?] evil is this factitious dignity when it stands alone. But there are cases there are and those but too numerous and too important where it is deemed incapable of standing alone: incapable of maintaining itself without support: without the support of money: money the produce of taxes - money wrung for this purely pernicious purpose from the necessities of the people.

    The case first in eminence - the case preeminent in mischief is that of the Crown. Without money coming from the people, money in that vast quantity which every body sees and feels, the dignity of the crown the dignity of the Monarch the dignity of that one individual could not be supported. And suppose it {were} not supported - suppose it fallen to the ground - in what assignable particular would the condition of the people be the worse? This is what remains to be proved: this is what never has been proved - this is what never has been attempted to be proved - this is what never will be never can be proved.
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    Look here to the King /Monarch/ of Great Britain and Ireland! Look there to the President of the United States! Say then, which of the two is likely to be best disposed to do his utmost towards the bettering the condition of the people.

    Look first to the Monarch: to the omnipresent all benevolent all-beneficent omnipresent impeccable all perfect immortal all powerful, irresponsible arbiter of our destiny, the fountain of all honour and all justice. + This political Emmanuel - this God with us - this factitious English God so much nearer to the true God than ever Greek or Roman God was, this idols of flesh and blood who made him? by whom is it that he was made? by whom but by yourselves. By your obedience you make his power - by your tongues and pens saying to him Lord most gracious most religious most excellent majesty and so forth you make his factitious dignity: by your money while /by that money for the many of which/ so many are starving you give to that factitious dignity the support that is said to be so necessary to it. And wherefore /for what/ is it that you do so? for fear of being embowelled or hanged, or banished, or imprisoned or fined or seeing your houses gutted, or being shot or cut to pieces. But for those motives /inducements/ motive of this complexion and this force, how long would that prostration that prostration of will at least if not of understanding last, that prostration which is necessary to so much /all this/ obedience /obsequiousness/ on the one part to so much /all this/ power and dignity on the other. To you the question is addressed: but it is so only for forms sake. The answer is given by other hands, it is given in by the Vote for the eleven thousand additional wielders of those musquets and sabres without which by the declaration of Blackstone’s earthly God he would not be secure in the throne which under the terror of these visitations your hands have /never cease[?] to/ built for him:

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    by the Vote of those who been kept in place by him for that very purpose, vouchsafe to stile themselves your representatives, being chosen as such by those on whom alone if representation were what it pretended to be policy[?] and their paymaster would find that obedience of /by/ which their power is composed /constituted/.