JB_164_113.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 113] 1820 June 25 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 113]

1820 June 25

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

5. Mode of operation

In a legal sense these men were, not any of them, murderers; in a legal sense they were not any of them robbers: in a legal sense they were not any of them pirates: in a legal sense they were not any of them suborners; in a legal sense they were not any of them persons suborned: in a legal sense they were not any of them transgressors, misdoers. Why so? How so? Because by law impunity was provided for them and all other men in their respective situations, in respect of whatsoever transgressions and misdeeds taking the /those/ words in a moral sense, they may have been guilty, in respect of whatsoever mischiefs and miseries by means of those misdeeds they may have been the authors of, impunity was and is pro

JB_164_107.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 107] 1820 June 24 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 107]

1820 June 24

Emancipation Spanish

?. Corruptive influence

5 Mode of operation

Corruptive influence is not the only instrument by which the only mode in which, as in the case of other misdeeds so in the case of a breach of trust, the commission of the misdeed and the production /birth/ of the evil with which it is pregnant, are /is/ capable of being brought about; Another, still more forcible, and, generally speaking, more efficient, is coercive power. This other mode is here mentioned as a distinct one because it is so in some cases. But /though/ when the mode /instrument/ in which the subornation is committed or endeavoured to be committed consists in nothing more than the withdrawing of profit in some shape in which either in possession or in expectancy it is an object of regard, this is among the modes in which /not only does/ the force applied comes under the appellation of corruptive influence; and it /this/ is even the most powerful and efficient shape in which corruptive influence can operate.

JB_164_117.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 117] 1820 June 25 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 117]

1820 June 25

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

5 Mode of operation

Nor is this the worst: for while they are independent of the people whose interests they profess to serve, they are dependent of those other men /fellow sharers in power/ to whose interests essentially and unchangeably opposite to those of the people, to those /the only persons/ for whom in pretence and profession they are in trust, they are exposed to removal, at the hands of the Monarch - the whole body of them together, as often as such is his pleasure; at the hands of the Members of the House of Lords, their respective patrons, a proportion of them amounting to a majority: exposed, though not in form yet what is worse in effect; though not by the force of the legal sanction, by a perverse and mischievous application of the force of the popular or moral sanction; and being in the opinion of men of that class that is of all the men with whom they live, on the part of the nominee an act of infamy not to remove himself out of the House when by a word, or by any intimation howsoever indirect and gentle, called upon to make the sacrifice