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English: TWL.2000.168Poster, printed, paper, arguments against the 'Contagious Diseases Act' presented to voters in the 'BURNLEY ELECTION', black printed inscription: 'BURNLEY ELECTION! To CATHOLICS:- What Cardinal Manning says about the Contagious Diseases Act. Westminster, 23 Jan 1875. Sir, --- In reply to your note received this morning, requesting me to give my opinion on the Contagious Diseases Acts, I have no hesitation in saying that I regard them with the strongest repungence, and with the gravest fear for the sake of the public morals of the country. ---- On every ground of Christian and natural morality the administration of those Acts appears to me to be fatal to our public moral sense. --- I am, therefore, of opinion that every dictate and law of morality requires the Repeal of the existing Acts, and in this opinion I am the more confirmed by the fact that they are the first introduction into our legislation of a system which, in my belief, has had disastrous consequences in other countries --- I remain sir, your fa
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