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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

King and President

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Look now - if you can endure thus to sink - look if so much splendor as you have just seen /been seeing/ has not blinded you - look to the place men of the people possessing some /considerable/ powers possessing no attributes the man who has sense to worship him sense to flatter him sense to utter lies to pour forth for him without ceasing the tribute of unblushing mendacity for his honour and his glory, the President of Congress. No Majesty has he: no […?], no nor so much as Lordship. Palpable as is the deficiency, in what are the people over whom he presides in what is he himself the worse for it? When did he even thank any of them for cutting any others of them to pieces? To whom against whom did he will he or can he ever call for vengeance? Good people so long as you keep your thoughts to yourselves you can not be cut to pieces for thinking, think of these things. There is a time for all things. It is already a time for thoughts. The time for action, peradventure it may one day come.

King and President - look at them together. On the one hand you see /have/ Most Excellent Sovereign power and dignity on the other hand you have incessant labour, perfect responsibility, unavoidable appropriate probity preeminent intellectual aptitude approved talent cheap and […?] /indefatigable/ service. The Monarch looks down upon the people and calls them his subjects - The President looks up to them and calls them Fellow Citizens. The Monarch has been taught /learnt/ from his cradle to think the people were made for him, and hears every body around him say, so they were, the President knows that it is by the people that he was made what he is and that he can no longer be while he is thus in their judgment he is fit to be so.
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    Description: 1820 Feb. 19

    Radicalism not dangerous

    III Experience

    II Ireland

    Radicalism - its origin?

    Factitious dignity

    King and President

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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:

    +  Refer to and perhaps quote Blackstone.
  • Title: [1820 Feb. 19 Radicalism not dangerous]
    Description: 1820 Feb. 19

    Radicalism not dangerous

    III Experience

    II Ireland.

    Radicalism - its origin?

    Factitious dignity

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    Apply it from top to bottom. Conjoined with office the purpose and supposed or pretended use of factitious dignity is to secure respect to office. Apply it /the/ from top to bottom. The more the respect is paid to the man’s office, the less the respect that is deserved by the man who bears it. Be it what it may that a man desires to have, that which he can obtain without sacrifice, he will not make self-sacrifice for the obtainment of it.

    Money power factitious dignity - the more a man has of them: the more he wants of them /leaner[?] is his hunger for them/. Thus far so much the worse for himself. But under matchless constitutions, the more he /a man/ has of any one of them the more he is able to get if always at the expence of the people, of the elements /political instruments/ of felicity in that sense as well as all the other shapes. And This - need it be said? is so much the worse for the poor people.

    Seeing this men were not ashamed /deterred by shame/ to say - the more power the more virtue the more money the more virtue the more dignity meaning always that which is lump of wax or by a ribbon by a tap of the shoulder, the more dignity the more virtue. Yes Property is probity: in sound there is little difference, in substance none. Money is virtue: power is virtue: factitious dignity is virtue. Behold here the real tread of which the only sincere and real worship is bestowed.

    Seeing this men there are who are not ashamed indeed who is it that /where will you see him who/ is ashamed to say Give to each man as much of all these supports to righteousness as he has an appetite for, as you have no righteousness. The daughters of Danaus says the Greek fable /pagan[?] history/ - the Daughters of Danaus and not without good cause are kept by pouring water in hell till they have kept for a certain time in a state of constant fulness a tub the bottom of which has more cavity than wood in it.
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    Radicalism not dangerous

    III. Experience

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    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!