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1820 June 7 Emancipation Spanish
1820 June 7

Emancipation Spanish

'.6. Creoles repugnant

"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.

Why many should be sent from us to you, rather than from you to us?

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.

Why you and your rulers should send out men to America to make fortunes at our expence rather than us and our rulers send out men to Spain to make fortunes at your expence!
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    '.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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    Spanish America would be for [...?] of [...?] or Ireland was: and with great advantage

    If, on the news of the unexpected change from government despotism to a government in so great /high/ a degree popular, if under the intoxication produced by so felicitous a result, despotism to throw itself /themselves/ into the arms of their liberators, and not only into their arms, but at their feet should [...?] the amount be found very extensively prevalent the wonder would /need/ not be great. But that at the end of a certain interval, when the intoxication had had time to subside, and experience had taken place of hope and confidence, this /a/ disposition /to self-sacrifice/ should continue unchanged, seems far too much to be expected.

    One of two things. Either, to the people of Spain and their rulers, the dominion over Spanish America would manifestly not be of any the smallest use, or in a variety of points and to a great extent, a sacrifice of the interest of the many in America to those of the few in Europe would have to be made. Take a few examples.

    1 In America money would have to be raised by taxes to be sent without equivalent to save taxes to you in Europe

    2. From America, money the proceeds of [...?] would be to be suit for the same purpose.

    3. Under the notion of benefiting the [...?] class among you, restriction would be to be imposed on the production and export of the produce of industry in these distant regions on the productions of the industry of these your American subjects.

    4. To make fortunes for the purpose of their being spent among you and for your benefit. Others in Spanish America, would under the new Constitution, or under the old despotism be to be filled by the choice of your rulers.
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    4. Supposable resource 4. Emolumt from Ultramarian Offices

    In England all this in accordance with the Constitution; I mean always with what would be the Constitution, if there were one. For if the English Constitution, according to the account given of it in all speeches given no less by Whigs than by Tories, the end in view is the maintaining the lustre and splendour of the Crown: to which it is necessary that the pockets of all the rich who are near enough to be seen on their knees before it should be kept in a state of perpetual plunderage. But of your Constitution, which, such as it is, is a really existing one, the end in view - at any rate the declared end - (Art. 4. 13) is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

    But suppose it admitted that it is proper that to all offices should stand attached masses of emolument such as should suffice for the making fortunes out of them. Suppose it were admitted that it is propoer that the fortunes, when made, should be carried out of the country at the expence of which they have been made. These same admissions - what would you be better for them? If it be proper that, to offices in Ultramaria, masses of official emolument should be attached for the benefit of Spaniards, to the end that, after making out of them each man his fortune, he may on his return to Spain, carry it with him to Spain, - it can not be less proper, that, to Offices in Spain like masses of official emolument should be attached for the benefit of Ultramarians, to the end that after making out of them each man his fortune, he may carry it with him on his return to Ultramaria. These your distant kinsmen - suppose them to urge /claim/ this reciprocity: what will you find to say to them /answer them/? That they are an inferior cast, and that reciprocity would be injustice? There stands your Constitutional Code, and at every page it contradicts you. When they want an example for misrule, it is to England that your rulers send you. The fund is an inexhaustible one. Thus it was when they tried to destroy the liberty of the press and public discussion. On this occasion, one little circumstance excepted. Here too, if in their eyes it be expedient they may find a case in point to shew you. /Look at/ British India with its population of hundred millions. Englishmen are sent to India to make fortunes and bring them to England: Indians are not brought over to England to make fortunes here and go carry with them to India. But now the little circumstance. The people of English India avowed a conquered people with reference to England: but your Ultramarian kinsmen are not a conquered people with reference to you or your rulers /reference to England: but your Ultramaria kinsmen are not a conquered people/. They are descendants of the conquerors. And, between Spain and Ultramaria how little soever there may be at bottom - (but this you will see in its place) in profession, and on the surface of the Code, all is equality and reciprocity.