JB_162_186.xml

Title: [1820 May 29 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 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.

JB_172_364.xml

Title: [1822 April 11. Rid yourselves]

Description: 1822 April 11.

Rid yourselves

Revised

Lett 17. Relinquishm t entire.

For more than three years past, not a man sent from Spain for the

maintenance of the dominion! Such is the official assurance given in his message for

the 8 th of March 1822 to the Congress by the President of the

Anglo American United States. (a) For more than three years

together,- to humour the pride of less than two hundred, so many millions, probably

not less than twenty, kept in a state of sufferance: in your Ultramaria, the

independent portion of your Ultramarian kinsmen; in that same country, the adherents

to your rulers: in your own country, youselves: in a state of sufferance, all : in

two of the three instances, in a state of of the most wide-spreading as well as

excruciating sufferance. Of all this suffering, who were the real authors? Who but

they in whose power it was, without sacrifice, in any shape, to you or any one, to

put an end to it? without sacrifice to a preponderant amount, even to these same

authors fo the sufferance themselves: for, when the true character of their conduct

comes to be generally seen, how much more severe will not the wound be, that will be

given to their pride by public opinion, than it would have been if their own hands

had gueded the lancet as above! For more than three years had this source of

inpotence, useless cruelty, and dishonor, been manifesting itself, when after an

express view taken of it, your late Representatives marked the termination of their

authority by the declared determination to give an indefinite continuance to it: by

the declared refusal to substitute peace and amity to a war of suffering without

hope.

In the case of the result to England from the imdependence of so

large a portion of her Colonies, I have shown you the only channel through which net

profit can be derived - derived by any nation from a connection with a distant one:

trade, on terms equal and free on both sides;

subjection

Note (a)

(a.) "For the last three years the Government of Spain has not

sent a single corps of troops to any part of that country: nor is there reason to

believe it will send any in future". MOrn. Chron. 9 April 1822.

Translator. Add, if you have no objection an extract from the Spanish

documents, shewing in relation to this matter what has been done by the Cortes and

the Ministry.

JB_162_114.xml

Title: [1820 June 6 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820 June 6

Emancipation Spanish

'.5. People Sufferers

II Reason

II. Now as to power, considered as having for its instruments troops sent for your service in Spain from the Colonies /Spanish America/ this or that part of it.

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.

If it be by Spanish America that the troops thus imported are to be purchased, on this supposition the money must be raised by taxes imposed there, and thus in addition to the power money is extracted.

If they are to be brought against their wills - brought by force, then comes for consideration, I do not say the cruelty, for in there cases that is never regarded as worth considering,- but the difficulty, of obtaining them by such means.