Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 by Henry Hunt
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his _plan_ than about the preservation of his life. After he came out of
prison, he pursued the inculcation of his _plan_, appearing to have no other care; and this he did, I am assured, to the day of his death, always having been a most virtuous and inoffensive man, and always very much beloved by those who knew him. "We have all seen, for years past, _written on the walls_, in and near London, these words, "SPENCE'S PLAN:" and I never knew what it meant, until, a little while ago, I received a pamphlet from Mr. Evans, Newcastle-street, Strand, detailing the _Plan_ very fully. This Mr. Evans, I understand to be a very worthy man, and his pamphlet, though I do not agree with it in opinion as to many of its propositions, contains some interesting observations, and breathes a spirit of benevolence throughout the whole. "Mr. Preston and the Watsons appear to have been followers of Mr. Spence; and the '_plan_' of which Mr. Preston is said to have '_confessed_' the existence, is, as you will see, '_Spence's Plan_,' and nothing more; and nothing more, no, not a hair more, will Corruption's sons, with all their torturing and twisting, with all their falsehoods and affected alarms, be able to make of it! Thus, you will clearly perceive, that the 'confessions,' as they are called, of your correspondent, Mr. Preston, are no confessions at all. You will clearly see, that Corruption's Press has foisted in the words _insurrection_ and _plot_; for, unless you see this, what sense is there in the words _good_ and _constitutional?_ What absurdity to believe, that a man, and a _guilty_ man, too, would talk about a _good_ insurrection and about a plot that was _constitutional_, and which plot had been going on for _eight years_, and had been _communicated to Mr. Perceval_ as the only means of saving the nation! But, strip these lying accounts of the words |
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