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[clxii. 184] 1820 May 28 Emancipation
[clxii. 184]

1820 May 28

Emancipation Spanish

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Mediation preferable

'. Mediation proposed.

'. Preliminary Considerations submitted - 1. dominion or mediator which most /best for/ conducive to amity 2. Spain or Spanish America which the [...?] of empire[?]. 3. The demand for separation arises out of the Constitution.

Before I enter upon the proof of these propositions, there are two other observations which it may be proper for me to lay before you.

1. Peace and harmony is recommended to the Spanish Americans and it is in enforcing a recommendation to this effect that the greater part of this long and eloquent State-paper is employed. But /At the same time/ the misfortune is, that the submission to Spanish rulers is all along assumed, virtually and decidedly howsoever tacitly assumed as the condition sina quâ non the indispensable arrangement without which no such blessings as those in question even in the countries in question have place.

Now what to me seems clear is that to their most desirable /happy/ ends this which nothing can be more truly /intensely/ desirable, offers of friendly mediation upon equal terms without any claim of dominion would be much more efficiently /surely/ conducive than any such claim could be. In some particulars on some accounts mediation from you would be more suitable - in some /other/ particulars, on other accounts from the Anglo-American United States. From a conjunct mediation of both better grounded expectations of a happy result might, as far as to me appears be entertained than from any other power /authority/ that the state of human society at this day affords.

After saying /submitting/ what would be the fittest composition /elements/ for such a function /mode/ for any such healing remedy, it would be superfluous surely for any man to set himself to hand out to you what would to the worst. France, Poland, Norway, Finland last November[?] the Netherlands Saxony, Naples, Genoa, [...?].- any one of all these countries, would by the bare mention of it suffice to perform the function of such advice.
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