[clxvii. 87]

1821 March 22

Rid Yourselves

Anti Consititut.

Corruptive influence

Of the existence of this political poison in the frame of your Constitution I am warranted to make assumption without further proof. In the Code itself the existence of it, and along with the existence the Dangerous tendency /property/ of it stands confessed. It stands confessed, and if by implication only, yet by necessary implication confessed: namely by those arrangements which in their nature can not have been directed to any other object. /if they had not this for their object would have none./

These arrangements, I will proceed /I proceed/ to bring to your view - the arrangements themselves, and with them, their evident inadequacy to the evidently professed - it will be for you to say whether the really intended - purpose