JB_162_213.xml

Title: [1820 July 19 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820 July 19

Emancipation Spanish

'. Mediation preferable

If in any character Spanish rulers can serve Spanish Americans, it must be not as rulers, but as mediators.

But our brethren it may be said /says somebody/ our brethren in America - think of their condition! think of their sufferings - their sufferings from anarchy - think how incapable they are of governing themselves! What? shall we refuse to them the benefit of our guidance? the benefit of our excellent Constitution at any rate, to those who lifting up /holding out/ their hands to us for succour shall we refuse it? shall we leave them for ever a prey to anarchy - and to misery - to the sword of extermination. shall we be this selfish? this hard-hearted.

Fair words these, nor probably among you nor are there /men/ wanting that could make them up into eloquence: nor have them in abundance. But as to reason applying itself to human feelings - to the interests of the parties see what they amount to.

1. In the first place, it being in the character /by the supposition/ of armed rulers /in arms that your rulers/ that on this occasion your rulers must /will/ appear, /then bring the experiment to be tried/ see in the first place what the costs will be.

You must begin with saddling yourselves with the quantity of expence /Your rulers must begin with saddling you with the burthen already presented to your view/ deemed necessary to the appearing in that same character in an imposing attitude: an expence for which you will find most assuredly no adequate funds + You /They/ must begin with doing to yourselves /you/ this vast mischief for the chance (and think with how small a one it will be) of serving in the way you contemplate /think of/ these objects of your fraternal, or if you please your /it be more pathetic of their/ paternal tenderness.

JB_162_029.xml

Title: [[clxii. 29] 1820. July 30 Emancipation]

Description: [clxii. 29]

1820. July 30

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

' Conclusion

To set against the above mass of expence, make an estimate of the annual sum proposed to be extracted from each such dependency, and placed at the disposal of government in Spain; in such sort as to operate by the whole amount of it, in diminution of the taxes that would otherwise be imposed on and borne by the people of Spain:- under the head of each such dependency, stating the taxes, or other sources of revenue, from which the money is proposed to be extracted.

Spaniards! You shut your eyes, you stop your ears. But your eyes had you even put them out, your ear-drums had you even broken them, would the nature of things be changed by it? Are ends to be accomplished by pertinacity without means? Are all virtues reduced to one, and that one the blind and selfish appetite for power?

Spaniards! the name of Bentham is not altogether unknown to you. Soon you shall see what in the year 1793, and of course in vain, that patient and not altogether unknown labourer in the vineyard of legislation endeavoured to say on this same subject to the people of France. You could not on that occasion have been in his view. But whether among the arguments which on that occasion were applied by him to the case of France, there may not be some that would be found applicable to your's, or may be not unworthy of your consideration. Whatever interest I may have in misleading you, he at any rate had none.

Spaniards! Sober operations - operations of arithmetic such as those just suggested - think whether they are the suggestions of an enemy! Think - (not that it matters any thing to the argument) - Think whether you have an enemy in

Philo-Hispanus

JB_172_087.xml

Title: [1820 Sept 9 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820 Sept 9

Emancipation Spanish

' Creolia rule Spain

Creolia should rule Spain

Well then and this greates number in which of the two hemispheres is it to be found?

I say in Spanish America /the American/ The proof in the annext Table

Even were the Table not true today, it will /would/ be seen to be true t omorrow:

tomorrow if your rulers and you do not attempt to cramp the population cramp it by

incapacity or by design if your rulers do not use their endeavours to cramp it: and

even if they do

Well but are the proportions - there is the greatest number. Now if as to their

/the/ greatest happiness of the greatest number which is likely to provide best for

it? those whose happiness it is or some other person? those who think mostabout it or

those who think least about it

We love you better than you do yourselves. So you may say to those Creolians: but do

you expect to be believed?

We think more about your tinterests than you do yourselves? So you may say to these

your kinsmen. But where do you expect to find evidence? among them or among what

others

"We understand what is for your happiness better than you do: so you may say to

these your kinsmen. But let third persons think and say what you will, thin you that

the persons interested /person thus spoken to/ do you think they will either think of

say so?

Thus /Oh yes Such/ is the language of all tyrants when theyy condescend to endeavour

to become imposters. This is what in /within/ their dispute with the public many is

assumed assumed in all because by the ruling few It is because they understand so

well what is for our interests, and we not, that those by whom we are plundered and

oppressed, plunder us.