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1820 July 12
Emancipation Spanish
' People Sufferer
Discontent among a people will frequently have place where no just cause of discontent has place. Such is the notion, or at least the language, among the ruling few in general: such at any rate will be the doctrine of all those, whom the continuance of the dominion will find among its advocates. As theirs I give it: for it is none of mine my notion is the very reverse: and /it is/ that from the beginning of history to the present time all over the world there never has been between governors and governed any contention in which the governors were not in the wrong.
Be this as it may, what will hardly be disputed is - that of there in the dependencies in question be just cause of discontent and in so far as just cause of discontent has place, sooner or later actual discontent there will be.
But just cause of /ground for/ discontent there can not fail to be: just cause of /ground for/ discontent; namely misrule in every shape; and this same dominion of itself the abundantly adequate and certain cause of it.
And this brings me to my second head to the second of the above positions:- to this dominion the Creoles can not fail to be averse.
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Title: [1820 July 12 Emancipation Spanish]Description: 1820 July 12 Emancipation Spanish Ult 0 ' 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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Title: [[clxvii. 250] 1820 Aug. 17.]Description: [clxvii. 250] 1820 Aug. 17. Emancipation Spanish '.2. Creoles unwilling '.1. Temporary submission impossible '.2. Still more if averse; as, under the Constitution, they can not but be. II. Much more detrimental, in this same point of view, would the dominion in question, or any attempt to exercise it over Spanish America, or [...?] any part of that vast country, of course be, to the interest of the subject many in Spain, upon the supposition of repugnance, in any part of the other hemisphere. As the repugnance encreased, or were thought to encrease, or were foretended to be encreasing, so would the expence, of the preparations made for surmounting it. It would encrease, in proportion to the number of the provinces in which the discontent had place, and in proportion to the apparent comparative number and force of the discontented in each province: and so, in case of disobedience, or revolt, in proportion to the extent of it. In Spanish America, the probable existence, and, in case of its existence, the probable magnitude, of the repugnance, discontent, disobedience, and revolt respectively, would of course receive encrease from every distinguishable arrangement, by which relief, or benefit, were seen to be endeavoured to be afforded to the people of Spain - to the people of Spain, subject many, ruling few, or both together - at the expence of Spanish America, in general, or of any of that vast expanse.
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Title: [[clxii. 7] 1820 July 24 Emancipation]Description: [clxii. 7] 1820 July 24 Emancipation Spanish Summary III Appeals 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. That powers altogether arbitrary would under the new state of things allowed to Governers sent from Spain to Spanish America and made removable at pleasure by order from Spain is surely not to be supposed. This supposition then being put aside, cases there are in which, for the purpose of maintaining the dominion in question, the giving of this right of appeal, to functionaries of government, sent by the ruling few in Spain to reside in Spanish America, could scarcely fail of being really regarded as necessary to the maintenance of the dominion in question. The cases to which this observation is more particularly applicable are financial cases in general and certain penal cases. To the finances in Spain, taxes imposed in Spanish America would be regarded as altogether void of promise, if from the judicatories in Spanish America no such appeal were allowed to any judicatory in Spain in favour of a Collutor or public prosecutor, appointed and removable by government in Spain. The maintenance of the dominion would be regarded as altogether precarious if in prosecutuions for revolt, disobedience or declared disaffection or declared discontent no appeal were allowed to be made in these cases from the Spanish American judicatories, by a person prosecuting before them in behalf of government in Spain.
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