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1820 May 15 Emancipation Spanish
1820 May 15

Emancipation Spanish

7 '. People sufferers

Thus then for an always plausible and apparent reason, and an unanswerable pretence for excessive taxation taxation to the extent of solvency, so long as the dominion lasts there will be, if it be one assumed, the alleged necessity of maintaining it and in the difference between the quantum of money obtained by taxation really necessary, /sufficient/ and the utmost quantity that can by any means be extracted we have the Spanish people amy see/ the loss by this supposed necessary - dominion the suffering produced by the sensation /observation/ of such loss
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    '.5. People sufferers

    The people of the Anglo-American States are mentioned in like manner; and for the same reason: namely to show that their case has not been forgotten

    In the scale of dangerousness - I mean real dangerousness I place them last. The reasons are plain. In that country the world the old world - is turned topsy-turvy: the people govern their rulers. In that country The people are not fond of being taxed: and though in comparison of a King of Englands /Great Britains/ advisers they are an ignorant crew yet by that very ignorance they are led onto an impatience of taxation: ignorant [...?] so they are, /nor yet be[?] they want knowledge enough/ they have still knowledge enough to know that war is not to be carried on without taxes.

    In this latter circumstance then may be seen, whatotherwise would be undesirable the cause of that exemplary patience that unexampled patience - that alleged and apparent love of justice, by which for nearly twenty years the rulers of that commonwealth have been kept back from seeking compensation by war at the hands of the Spanish Monarchs late advisers for as long a train of inexcusable injuries
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    Thus stands the account of profit, to use the language of the same intelligent and to all appearance correct reporter, "in a direct shape."

    Let us now see whether to set against the loss, as brought to account above, there can in the case here in question, any profit any really existing profit accruing from the operation of the same supposed cause dominion exercised by rulers in Spain over the people of the Spanish Colonies, in any indirect shape in any other than the above direct shape.

    Particular shapes in which any such indirect profit can accrue /present themselves/ there are but two, money (including moneys worth) and men: men, namely for military service: for all imaginable shapes would be found reducible to these two.

    1. As to money money obtained by means of dominion in any such indirect shape, would be obtained by restriction by a sort of indirect taxation: by prohibitions restrictions on bounties having for their object the causing the mercantile men among you the Spanish people to obtain in the way of the mutual exchange of goods money or other commodites from the Spanish Americans at a less /lower/ price than if no such dominion had place, or in exchange for commodities sent to Spanish America obtaining from the Spanish Americans a higher price.
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    '.7 Rulers gainers

    '. To the ruling few alone, and at the expence of /you/ the subject many would the dominion be beneficial.

    What then says somebody by the splendid dominance thus exercised will nobody be a gainer? will there be no gainers?

    Oh yes: that there will; and but too many: and yet be the number what it may, not so many as would be necessary to render the possessor of it elegible beneficial to the people at large.

    Without borrowing the exact amount of it, for the bounds to infinity can not be detrimental - we have ascertained thus much in relation to the expence of maintaining or endeavouring to maintain this dominion thus much has /and we have/ been maintained - namely that it amounts to the difference between the expence necessary to the maintaining of the Spanish government free from those burthensome dependencies, and the utmost quantity of money that can /could/ be extracted from the people under the nature of the maintaining this same unprofitable dominion.

    Correspondent to the whole of the expence and the whole of the burthen with its suffering imposed upon the people at large, will be the profit received /reaped/ - and the comfort enjoyed by their rulers: by the Kings own advisers under the new free constitution instead of the King's late advisers under the old and the all thus established and firmly /[...?]/ maintained despotism.