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1820 May 10 Deontology Spanish
1820 May 10

Deontology Spanish

'. People Sufferers

The question is - not as to the advantages to be made by means of a connection with them, but as to the advantages if any that are to be made by exercising dominion over them, over and above such as would be derived from an intercourse with them, on terms of mutual freedom and equality namely by means of an ordinary alliance such as for example has place between the people of Spain and the people of France.

If for arguments sake, to the preservation or oblivion[?] of all the advantages obtainable by close /special/ connection exercise of dominion by the one over the other is necessary may it not by better reason be claimed in behalf of the people of Spanish America over the people of Spain than by the people of Spain over the people of Spanish America? People of Spain 102 millions: people of Spanish America 17 millions. Accordingly to such computations as have been made, there it stands in regard to numbers. How in regard to appropriate experience - experience in the practice of Government. Length of the experience in the case of the Cortes, say two years +: in the case of several of the Spanish American provinces, already, reckoning from 1810, ten years.

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