JB_164_118.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 118] 1820 June 28 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 118]

1820 June 28

Emancipation Spanish

?.8 Corruptive influence

Oh but (say the advocates of masked despotism) the Chief functionary ought not to be - can not be - ought not to be - removable: Remove him - make but the most distant preparation towards removing /the removal of/ him - think what a convulsion! Then you have anarchy civil war, and so forth.

Can not be? O yes, it is just possible: for it was once done. But what a mass of misery had first been produced before it could be done. But, they are passed, those days: gone never to return. Removed now? No; to be sure, that he can not be: and nor would there be any use in his being removed, were any other to take his place: and, this being settled /established/, the ought not to be is not worth enquiring into.

But why is it that /what is the cause why/ he can not be removed? Exactly /But if in this removal there is any such impossibility, what is the cause of it? This and no other/ it is because of the enormous weight of the power that he is suffered to have: Go about removing him you might as well might you go about removing upon wheels the palace in which he is enshrined.

But, in the nature of the case in the general nature of government - is there any thing to prevent the removal of the Chief functionary? Look to America! Look to the Anglo-American United States! Behold there your answer: it has been speaking to you these /above/ forty years, and the louder it has been speaking to you, the more vigorous your exertions in stopping your ears, to every such sound.

JB_172_057.xml

Title: [1820. Aug. 14 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820. Aug. 14

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

Mode of riddance

What, can nothing be done for them but by putting a force upon

/forcing/ their inclinations /will/? Can nothing be done for them by the influence of

understanding upon understanding? by taking thought? Think what you have done already

done for Naples! for Naples, and what without expence in any shape; without expence

/[...?/ even in the shape of thought. To the Neapolitans - to these strangers -

already you have given - and without price /without so much as a thought, as well as

without any money price/ - a boon which in value is beyond all price. You have given

them your constitution. Upon whomsoever it was forced upon the people it was not

forced by you whose glorious work it was not forced upon any body. With this example

before your eyes - and, if your eyes are /can be/ tired with looking at it, mine

never can - with this example before your eyes, think whether it be true, that it is

in no other way than by tyrannizising over them, that by governing them, and if they

resist, destroyed by tyrannized over them, that a people can be served.

No, my friends think not to do by your kinsmen what the continental despots did by

unhappy Poland! - leave to the Despots of Russia - leave to the Despots of Prussia,

leave to the Despot of Austria - leave to the Feeder-general of all Despotism to

assume that it is only by destroying one part of their people and robbing the rest

that a people can be served: fearing not that servitude under a despotism is the only

security for good order the only remedy against anarchy.

JB_164_120.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 120] 1820 June 29 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 120]

1820 June 29

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

Just so again is it as to the principle of succession in the case of the Chief functionary. What would you have it any other than the natural principle /the genealogical, the only legitimate principle/? Would you have him elected after every vacancy? No Not if you are in your senses Poland? Poland! by that one word are presented those considerations, by which all need of argumentation is superseded /laid out of the question/.

When a man who has four-legged beasts /Cattle/ /Cattle/ dies and leaves children they are either divided among his children, or if that scheme of division /distribution/

Still the same exclamations: still the same answer Look once more to the American United States. When the death of the President, or a vacancy in his seat has taken place, has his eldest son, or any other son his daughter, become President and take his place? /succeeded to that same seat./ No never: but another plan chosen on principles little different from those of radical reform, as exhibited in Benthams Radical Reform in six words, Secresy, universality, equality and annuality of suffrage. Well and has anarchy been in any instance the consequence? Anarchy or so much as injury in any shape to so much a single individual.

In Poland, when the death of a King took place, anarchy was or something but little different from it was for a length of time more or less considerable his constant[?] successor: anarchy was the result where it was by Election that the /a/ vacancy of /in/ the throne was filled Anarchy where the vacant seat was called a throne, anarchy. where it was called a Chair, quiet was the result. Such is the difference in the results: and in the cause of this difference is there any thing that is not compleatly obvious?

Of the anarchy behold these causes these it is necessary to say were the causes.

1. Power though less than in an hereditary Monarchy still too great as before. The Right of Election - not in persons deputed by the whole people /population/: but in a comparatively small number about 100,000 out of 10,000,000, under whom the rest were slaves.