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1820 July 12 Emancipation Spanish
1820 July 12

Emancipation Spanish

' People Sufferers

As will be in Spain as in England. Ten thousand suffering beings /human sufferers/ - men women and children all unarmed meet to consider of the means of relief. Some being by the /a/ existing military force cut to pieces, the rest dispersed the necessity of addition of 10,000 veteran troops, to the 100,000 there were before, is discovered, and the 10,000 thereupon raised. This in a country where every thing is known and seen as it is /immediately/ and the supposition /opinion/ of any demand for additional armed force for suppression of unarmed meetings seems to be incapable of being entertained by any human being who was not out of their senses. Think then how long any such opinion as that of the needlessness of a military force in Spain for the keeping down discontent in Chile, Peru, or the Mauritius could continue in Spain supposing it ever to have been formed there.
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    '. People Sufferers

    Nay but, says somebody, troops we do not want: from them, nor anything else but money: and this money, in a quantity more or less considerable this money we shall have. Yes: by the very supposition we shall have it. For by the supposition, submitting is the dominion of our rulers, this money they will either of their own accord transmitt to us /deliver us/, or suffer us to take: and as in either case there is not on their part any repugnance, whatsoever money may now be found in the habit of being so regularly raised and expended for the purpose of keeping the government in readiness to use force, may cease to be raised.

    Not so indeed. For to this /to the continuance of/ of imagined sincerity two things are necessary: namely that in no one of these distant dependencies any disposition to discontent towards opposition to your rulers should ever have place: the other is that in the part of these same rulers no apprehension of any such disposition should have place. But the more closely the state of this case /things/ is looked to, the more thoroughly /highly/ improbable will the continuance of any such feeling of security be seen to be.

    On the contrary, if suffering be and in so far as it is, a cause of discontent and if the a consequent desire of relief by [...?] to every such feeling of satisfaction, will at no long distance of time, succeed a feeling of dissatisfaction and discontent in their own part, thereupon comes in the other part a feeling of or imagination call it what you please, of a correspondent demand for military force, by land or sea, for the eventual crushing of those by whom the discontent is harboured: and to the quantity of the force, and thence of the money for the maintenance of it that will present itself as necessary, will be no bounds but those which will have been set by your ability to supply it
  • Title: [1820 June 6 Emancipation Spanish]
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    '.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.
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    3. Men raised for military service: raised in Spanish America and sent to Spain for the defence or in other respects the service of Spain. The sort of resource thus expressed /described/ would it in this new state of things be looked to? for /of/ employing it would any desire be entertained?

    That it should be does not seem probable

    1. As yet no such resource it is believed has been employed or looked to