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1820 May 29 Emancipation Spanish
1820 May 29

Emancipation Spanish

'. Creoles willing

Preliminary considerations

'.a. Preliminary considerations continued . [...?] of the dominion shewn from the objective of the conveyance of troops.

2. Troops are they to be convey in time of peace are they and for the purposes of peace are they to be conveyed from the one country to the other, or are they not? /yes or no?/

If not /no/, then Spain has no hold upon the Colonies: power on the one part, dependence on the other, is but nominal.

If yes, are they to be conveyed reciprocally, from Europe to America only, or - from America to Europe only, or indifferently from either to the other, or from each to the other in equal numbers or from either to the other at pleasure

1. If from each to the other in equal numbers exactly equal or nearly equal here will be the very maximum of expence: twice the expence of conveying them from one /alone/ of the two countries, and not from /to the exclusion of/ the other. And in this where will be the advantage or use to counterbalance /compensate for/ the expence

2. If from each to the other at pleasure, and in any proportion still there will be the expence: and if reciprocity be in any point of view the professed object, that object, may unless the usual proportion be fixed by law be eluded.

So far as reciprocity is the object, that object might /would/ be better obtained without any such reciprocity than with it by sending from one to the other no more than the difference. For example instead of sending /conveying/ from Europe to America 10,000, and from America to Europe 10,000, conveying /removing/ none from either or instead of conveying 10,000 from Spain to America and 5000 from America to Spain, sending 5000 from Spain to America, and none from America to Spain: and so in the opposite case.
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    From America to Spain can it be in contemplation, /ever to convey troops/ always speaking of peace and in contemplation of peace, ever to convey troops. Hardly No surely. If from either to the other it will be from that part of the globe which is the seat of government /power/ to that part which is the seat of dependency: this will be the course intended and not the reverse /converse/ will be the course intended: if reciprocity be possessed it can only be in appearance and for appearances sake.

    Well then, in [...?] of sending /conveying/ forces from the one to the other, the sole object will be, for this is the only object which such an arrangement can have is the keeping the Colonies in subjection by force: keeping by force 11 millions of men in subjection by and under. 10 /11/ millions that is by and under the rulers of the /these same/ 11 millions.

    From which so ever of the two countries conveyed to the other, there must be ships /vessels/ for transport and there must be or will be vessels of war for the convoy of the transports. Are they to be hired? the expence of the hire will be variable, and at the lightest heavy: are they to be kept constantly in service? the expence will be still greater, it will be at its maximum.

    Behold here then the dilemma. Are no troops ever to be sent from Spain to the Colonies? the dominions of Spain over the Colonies will be but nominal: the sort of connection stated as subsisting /having place/ between them will be but nominal: of the effects stiled good and professed to be expected, none will be attained.

    Are troops to be sent from Spain to the Colonies? It can be for no other purpose than the maintaining of the dominance over them by force. But for this purpose the quantity of force, land and sea together thus conveyed must for ever be unlimited: the quantity unlimited and thence the expence. And this expence will to the two countries[?], together in some proportion or other divided /shared/ between them, in just so much more than there would be any demand for, in the case of mutual independence.
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    In the account of profit, I mention this for no other reason than that it may be seen, that no imaginable article that is capable of presenting itself to imagination in that character has been overlooked. For no sooner is any the slightest reflection bestowed on it than it becomes manifest that from this source nothing no advantage to you in any shape can be derived.

    If from these distant regions any troops cross the Atlantic not to speak of the Pacific to Spain, it will either be with or without their consent. If with their consent, it must be by money in the shape of bounty that the consent is engaged. But the bounty money necessary to produce this self-banishment to so vast a distance /so distant a quarter of the globe/ would surely not be less than would suffice to engage an equal number of men from that European nation from which they could be obtained with most advantage: suppose for instance, the great man-market /the established man-shop/ Switzerland: and to this would be to be added, the expense of passage.

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    The French and the Netherlands Monarchs of France and the Netherlands are mentioned /I mean always their advisers/ only to show that they are not forgotten. Not that rapacity and blindness are less strangers to French and Batavian thrones than to English. But that the White Monarch who has been set at defiance by the Black Monarch if one half of [...?]? Domingo as not likely to be soon disposed to send troops to conquer from a natural ally any part /remnant/ of those dependencies over which /in which/ that ally with all his /the whole of/ [...?] not been able to contine in a state of real and effectual dependence.

    As to the King of the Netherlands, it will be time enough for him to think of making conquests or forcing trade in Spanish America when the one half of his subjects with him at their head or against them has succeeded in conquering the other.