1
results found in
32 ms
Page 1
of 1
[clxiv. 225]
1820 July 6
Emancipation Spanish
?.8. Corruptive influence.
This being admitted If, in the character of an all-embracing principle, this be admitted, note well the consequences.
1 If needless war be a mischief - 2 if exercise of dominion over distant and burthensome dependencies if an exercise of dominion producing net encrease of taxes be a mischief - 3. if hatred well-grounded hatred towards the country in question in the breasts of the subjects and governments of all other nations /countries/ upon earth be a mischief 4. if factitious delay, vexation and expence, having encrease of lawyers profit for its effect and object be a mischief if denial of justice to all the individuals in the community but /with the exception/ a few distinguished by their opulence and thence the systematic oppression of all but those few /nine-tenths of the people of the country/ be a mischief - 5. lastly if the maintenance of a constitution of a form of government having for its effect for its undeniable effect misrule in all these as well as so many other shapes be a mischief, then are the members of the government for the time being - namely in the first place of the executive branch of the government in the next place of the legislative branch guilty of all these mischiefs respectively: then are they - though not in a positive sense, in a negative sense, suborners of all the several misdeeds by which these several mischiefs are produced. Then are they in a moral sense guilty of all these mischiefs by a species of misdeed which bears the same relation to the corresponding positive misdeed as misprision does to treason itself.
[clxiv. 226]
1820 July 6
Emancipation Spanish
?.8. Corruptive influence
Corruption without Corrupter
S. Anglice , Rulers implacable enemies.
In relation to this system of misrule, far however are they from taking /maintaining/ no other than this negative and quiescent part.
Many /Various/ and continually recurring are the occasions on which their utmost activity is employed in the support of a state of things so pernicious to the universal interest so beneficial to the comparatively private and thence sinister interest of themselves their associates in power and confederates.
1. In the first place in the head and front of their offending is the support they give to a political idol of their own manufacture, for whom by a system of the most barefaced /flagrant/ yet hitherto unhappily not sufficiently detected fraud and imposture, they set up in the character of a God upon earth, possessing in a prodigiously preeminent degree all moral worth and in that field superior by a vast height to all men whose station is lower in the scale of power and wealth, knowing /sensible/ as they can not any of them avoid knowing that, by the causes which are so compleatly open to their view, he can not but have been rendered inferior in that scale to the generality of men.
2. In the next place comes the system of coercive measures and arrangements to which they are incessantly and upon every the most trifling and shallow pretence making additions - the measures having for their object the obtaining a remedy against /relief from/ the immense mass carefully imposed and cherished of human suffering or any considerable part of it.
Here enumerate the liberticide measures
Similar Items
-
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
-
Title: [[clxiv. 224] 1820 July 6 Emancipation]Description: [clxiv. 224] 1820 July 6 Emancipation Spanish ?.8. Corruptive influence Corruption without Corrupter R. Suborners of Misrule, all non-Opposers. In this case - in a case where the physical /sensible/ mischief and thence on the part of the common authors of it the moral guilt is at its maximum - at its highest pitch shall the self-conscious authors of it - shall those who, by the profit they derive from it, are suborned /stand engaged /determined// to give birth and encrease to it be on the field /score/ /in respect/ of moral guilt /delinquency/ holden guiltless? No surely - if either utility /public happiness/ or consistency are objects of regard. On the score of political - of legal - delinquency, yes: but in this impunity consists consists the source and basis and source of the grievance. Subornation has place, as above, in regard to almost every species of mischief - in the case of almost every species of political crime. Subornation as also observed, may be committed either by a positive act, or by a negative act - by an omission. In a negative sense he who through the operation of a crime /misdeed/ sees mischief about to conceive /have place/, is among the authors of that mischief - is a suborner with relation to that misdeed. Under the English Constitution, according to an acknowledgment not unfrequently repeated, the head functionaries by whom under the monarch the mass /branch/ power belonging to the Executive department of government is exercised are responsible - responsible at any rate to Parliament - not only for every mischievous act of any which they perform, but for every act recognized as good and necessary which they omitt to perform: to perform of themselves or to propose to Parliament, as the case may be.
-
Title: [[clxiv. 106] 1820 June 24 Emancipation]Description: [clxiv. 106] 1820 June 24 Emancipation Spanish ? Corruptive influence 5. Mode of operation The /These/ terms suborner and subornation have not with equal frequency been applied to misdeed in any other shape, to misdeeds bearing any other denomination with so much frequency as to misdeed in the shape of perjury: misdeeds in the shape of perjuries. But whether it for the purpose of prevention and thence of exposure, there is a no less uncontrovertible demand for it in the case of misdeed in any other shape than in the case of misdeed in this shape. Indeed if there be misdeeds the mischief /evil/ of which is greater than the mischief /evil/ from perjury, in the instance /several cases/ of all these several misdeeds the demand for it is greater than in the case of perjury: and the greater the evil the mischief, the more imperative the demand. As to the sort of misdeed here in question, whatsoever may be its particular nature and effect in particular situations, it comes under /it may be expressed by/ the general denomination of a breach of trust. The sort of trust here /on this occasion/ considered as liable to be broken is a public trust: a trust in the case of which the trustee is, as above, a person possessing some /a/ share more or less considerable in the mass of power of the aggregate of which the power of government is composed; and the persons for whom he is in trust, the whole body of the people, composed of all the members of the community in question, ruling few and subject many together, are the persons for whom he is in trust.
1
results found.
Page 1
of 1