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1820 July 12 Emancipation Spanish
1820 July 12

Emancipation Spanish

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' Creoles repugnant

'. To this dominion the Creoles cannot fail to be averse

No sooner does any person in Spanish America, or for Spanish America look into /about him/ the matter with any thing like an eye of calm enquiry, there be seen at once. that, as to that matter /point/ /the point in question/ if the dominion be exercised the interests of the two countries /[...?] Creolean subjects are in/ are point blank opposition to that of the people of Spain rulers, and subjects toegether /both/; and that opposite, and the opposition altogether irreconcilable: that upon this footing /under such dominion/ Spain can not in any respect or in any degree derive a benefit from the connection but /it/ Spanish America must be subjected to a correspondant burthen; and that the suffering experienced from the burthen will be beyond /can not fail/ all comparison greater than the greatest enjoyment or the relief call it what you please, that can be derived from the benefit: and that, in comparison of that good government which but for such connection might in Spain so easily have place misrule in all its shapes would in Spanish America be the consequence: the inevitable and irremediable consequence.

The burthen or grievances which in consequence of the connection would have place in Spanish America may be distinguished in the first place into those from which a correspondent benefit though to any degree far from being adequate to the burthen on either country by desire possibility be derived by you in Spain, and those in the instance of which the burthen would be pure, unattended with /unalloyed by/ benefit to either country in any shape.
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    '. Creoles repugnant

    To the first class /head/ belong those grievances which belong to the department /head/ of finance: namely money raised /the practice of raising/ in Spanish America for the service of Spain: raised, so you will be told for your relief, for your service.

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    To these heads of grievance and modifications /modes/ of misrule, which both of them seem but too likely to have place, let me add, lest any thing should appear /seem/ to have been overlooked another which though obvious and easily conceivable seems not very likely to have place. I mean the practice of raising in Spanish America supplies of men for service in Spain - and thence, so are you will be told, for your service

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    From the eventual removal of lawsuits from judiciaries in Spanish America to judiciaries in Spain - in one word, from Appeals to Spain, while no benefit would be afforded to the subject many in Spain, a most grievous and probably intolerable burthen, and cause of discontent, would be imposed upon all classes of persons without exception in Spanish America.

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