JB_024_423.xml

Title: [1823 Jan¼y 21 Trip. H. to Q.A. Advantages]

Description: 1823 Jan¼y 21 Trip. H. to Q.A. Advantages to other Nations

Inducements to U.S. Think of the benefit which you will thus confer on so many

other nations: think of the confidence which the proposed unambitious use of

your power will secure to you at their hands: think of the obligation which you

will have conferred on them: think of the sentiments of affection and respect

with which the receivers of such a benefit and on such terms would scarce have

it in their power were it even in their inclination © to regard the authors:

think of the glory © the true glory which throughout all ages /to the end of

time/ it would entail upon Your Union in general, and in particular on the

functionaries to whom in a more especial manner the civilized world /the human

race/ /mankind/ would be indebted for this blessing /for the proposed [...?]/

for so signal a blessing.

By the Spanish nation in a preeminent /more particular/ degree the common

/universal/ benefit would be enjoyed. For their possessions in North Africa, if

thought worth keeping they would derive from the new order of things encrease

/the perfection/ of security, with diminution of expence. Supposing as above

that in /into/ the other ports admission were secured by you to all nations upon

the same equal terms, this same plan of liberality might find on their parts no

unwillingness /them on their parts not unwilling/ to embrace it.

JB_024_434.xml

Title: [1823 Jan¼y 24 Trip. H. to Q.A Introduction]

Description: 1823 Jan¼y 24 Trip. H. to Q.A Introduction

A civil war, and at the conclusion of it subjection to a Nero: such at the death

of the present Sovereign is the calamity that threatens us

For remedy, and the only possible one I look to a Constitution, as near as may

be to that of your United States. Established in any one of the four Barbary

States the change would travel on in an assured course, over every other.

Believe me Sir, even with us, the state of feelings and opinions © in a word the

times are ripe for it. We are ready for a Washington: much more so than you

would be apt to imagine. Perhaps you may be able and willing to send us one.

Perhaps I can not be he, but I hope to be able to prepare the way before him: I

will endeavour at it if I have life.

What I have to submitt to your consideration you will find ranged under the

following heads

?.1. Most urgent inducements to and facilities for the proposed enterprize. State

of the reigning family and of mine in connection with it. ?.2. My own plan of

operation, on the supposition of no foreign assistance. ?.3. Weakness of the

government © facilities afforded by it ?.4. Extension of the change to Tunis,

Algiers and Morocco © its use and facility. ?.5. Assistance from the United

States, why and what desired. ?.7. United States © their supposed inducements

for concurrence ?.8. Secrecy why necessary © thence cooperation antecedent to

any communication to Congress. ?.9. Immediate preliminary measures, in case of

concurrence.

JB_024_427.xml

Title: [1823 Jan¼y¼. 21 Trip. H. to Q.A This unobjectionable]

Description: 1823 Jan¼y¼. 21 Trip. H. to Q.A This unobjectionable by the people

In speaking of this benefit, I speak of it without hesitation as affording a

reasonable promise of extending itself to the whole of Northern Africa, and even

sooner or later to the whole /all /not to speak of any other/ of the countries

by which the religion of Mahomet is professed. Imagine /Think/ not, Sir, however

that in what I have in view there is any thing of selfish and vulgar ambition,

sanguinary conquest /conflict/, wild adventures or disproportionate expence.

Exactly where and when a disposition in the leading part /influential portion/

of the population to change despotism and universal insecurity for

self©government and everlasting security, then and there let the means you have

within reach be [...?] and employed for that good purpose. What if any is a fit

place © what, if any, is the fittest time, these are points on which the

decision might, and naturally would be left to your Agents, who being on the

spot, would have in their hands whatsoever means the nature of the case allowed,

for forming in each instance a just and well grounded judgment.

In your hands upon the plan here proposed, force would be neither more nor less

than the necessary instrument of freedom. In intention and in all probability in

effect /the result/, it is by the display only by the display without the

exercise, that the effect would be produced. To the whole extent of its

influence The object being to produce liberty of appropriate action to the

widest extent possible liberty of assemblage and speech, followed by liberty of

suffrage, the only persons menaced by it the only persons upon and against whom

it would be employed would be those, if such there should be, in whom these

liberties would any of them find opponents.