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1820 June 7 Emancipation Spanish
1820 June 7

Emancipation Spanish

'.6. Creoles repugnant

These assurances being accompanied with the correspondent profession - these assurances being /containing in/ themselves so many professions it would be impossible /not be possible/ to prevent those /that/ to whom they were made should not now and then be for putting them to the test and comparing profession and practices.

What advantage is it to as to pay taxes in order to save a set of men in Europe just so much as taxes

The rent which the workers can afford to pay for [...?] what advantage is it to us to have it employed in /making or/ improving the roads, canals and harbours in spain rather than /making/ improving the means of commensurable[?] will as in America where the means are.

What advantage is it to our proposition and our produces to have the produce of their labour prohibited partially or compleatly /in part or in the whole/ that the produce raised in Spain may be so much the greater /the more abundant/ /as that our necessity of living should be made less abundant that those of the people in Spain should be rendered more abundant, and their rulers more opulent?/

What advantage is it to us to see strangers imported form such a distance to manage our affairs and help govern us and manage our affairs for us, to make fortunes for themselves at our expence, and carry these fortunes to their own homes to spend among their own communities, instead of suffering /our being suffered/ us to make choice od men for those same /the like/ purposes among ourselves, who will spend the money among and for the benefit of those /neighbours of those/ out of whose pockets it was /got/ extracted.
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    "The universal good, you keep assuring us (they will say) the universal good of us and you taken together is now your object: the universal interest that universal interest the great and sole object of your regard. These compleatly over professed principles, the principles now professed to your changed and rendered opposite then that had place among you antecedently to the glorious revolution which put /placed/ the power in /into/ your hands.

    Well then of the universal interest of us all - of the 172 million on our side of the water and /added to/ the 102 millions on your side of the water is the object of your regard, why is it that the preference is on every occasion to be sure to the interest and convenience of the 102. Is not 172 greater than 102?

    If it be so indispensably necessary that the 172 millions in America and the 102 in Europe at a distance from a 6 week to a 8 month voyage should be governed by the same King or by the same set of rulers, can you tell us why it is that the seat of government should be among the 102 millions rather than among the 172 millions.

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    Shy our production /our producer/ and the trade of the 17 million should be [...?] for the benefit of the 102 millions rather than the trade of the 102 millions for the benefit of the 172 millions.

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