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1820 Sept. Emancipation Spanish
1820 Sept.

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

Mode of riddance

No war against anarchy

Be the anarchy what it may, let there be no troops sent at your

expence or at any body's expence, under any such notion as that of putting an end to

/quelling/ it. In English we have several works /vocabularies more than one/ under

some such title as Dictionary of the Thieves' Cant, or a Dictionary of the Flash

language: in them are /is/ given explanations of the words in use amongst malefactors

so called - malefactors treated /dealt with/ as such malefactors gifted with impunity

- malefactors practising on a small scale malefactors without power dignity or

literature[?] malefactors in low places. For compleating the design two vocabularies

are still wanting: the vocabulary of technical jurisprudence and the vocabulary of

despotism: in vocabulary /of the language/ the terms of which are in use among

malefactors upon the largest scale malefactors whose practise is by depredation and

murder the murder principally for the sake of the depredation, - and both upon the

very largest of all scales, committed by malefactors in high places.

In this branch of the flash language, murdering one part of the population of a

country for the purpose of enslaving plundering and oppressing the remainder, is

called introducing or restoring order, and /by/ stopping or preventing anarchy. When

the first partition of Poland was effected /begun upon/ it was for puting a stop

/applying a check/ to anarchy. When the definitive partition of Poland was effected,

it was for the more effectually putting an end to anarchy. Now at what period was it

that this finishing stroke was put to anarchy? It was exactly at a /the/ period when

Poland was all joy and harmony having received a Constitution which if not quite as

good as that of England is pretended to be, was perhaps better than what it actually

is. If in addition to the lust of dominion /power/ fear had any share in the

production of that scheme of villainy /atrocity/ bar the anarchy what was the object

of that fear? Not anarchy, but good government: a government which by its

inclining[?] /subserviency/ to the only justifiable end of government the greatest

happiness of the greatest number would put the surrounding despotisms to shame among

them by the freedom of its press, and put it into the heads of subjects to call to

the minds of rulers the distinction the so difficultly comprehensible distinction

between men and cattle.
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