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[clxiv. 258]
1820 Aug. 9
Emancipation Spanish
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Corruptive influence
Ask them [...?] to what use to what end is this compound of folly and imposture and folly? If they say any thing that is to the purpose it will be this - namely that imposture - imposture in general, and this imposture in particular - are /is/ indispensably necessary to good government. Imposture necessary to good government! Look to America! look to the United States! Is not this a government? is not that government a good one? if that be not a good government what other government ever was so, is so or ever can be? In that government then in this shape or any is there any thing of imposture? Answer. No: in the Constitutional part of the field of law. No: none whatever: for that the people who are governed by it have made for themselves. In the other parts - the non-penal /distributive/ and penal law /branches/ alas! yes: for the phantom of law by which real laws are in these parts of the field of law [...?] - to this phantom they imported with them from England, and have the weakness still to trust every thing else: not only this phantom they have imported from England but every year /year by year/ they continue to import its pernicious perjury, led as they continue to be by the man of law, who keep the oracle in their own custody, giving as its responses the answers which their /his/ own sinister interest dictates, feeling /beholding/ a mine of wealth /gold/ in the darkness and uncertainty which its monstrous form /their monstrous forms/ perpetuates
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Title: [[clxii. 14] 1820 July 28 Emancipation]Description: [clxii. 14] 1820 July 28 Emancipation Spanish Summary No wonder if by a Cortes so composed the voice of the Royal Proclamation to the American subjects should be echoed. "Subjects" (they will be told) they must continue: subjects to the Monarch and to every Monarch of Spain - not forgetting his advisers - subjects who in case of disobedience are to "feel all those terrible effects, to be expected from national indignation, and a justly offended government." Echoed? Good. But will it be obeyed? No: unless in Spanish America the state of human feelings is directly opposite to what it is in Spain. If averse to submission before, will they be reconciled to it by being informed that they have done such and such things: these same things being the very things which they know they have not done? that they have chosen and commissioned as their representatives such and such men whom in that character they never heard of? If not disposed to submission already is there in any such treatment any thing that can tend to dispose them to it? Much more naturally, if before disposed to submission would a man by such means be rendered averse In England - Oh yes, in England all this would be unexceptionable: all this we have and worse. Imposture is the ground on which the Constitution and every thing belonging to it is built: in one branch fictitious choice in the two others fictitious excellence. no imposture, no folly, no wickedness Give it but age, too gross to be worshipped and defended: defended, and to the very death. Our impostures have all of them neither imposture nor age on age on their side. But this of yours? It is but of yesterday. Adverse to such wide spreading interests and feelings, it will find all eyes open to the detection of it all breasts prepared for the resisting of it. Spaniards, in speaking of this matter think not that by any thing I have been saying of what has been done in this matter of it I have had any such meaning as that of passing condemnation upon it. I see nothing in it in which had it depended upon me I might use myself, for aught I can say, have given my concurrence. With the book of the Constitution lying open as it stands, I see not how that which has been done could have been left undone even independently of the mandate of the existing law, so far as concerns information - receipt of appropriate information no better course would the nature of the case admitt of. But to furnish information to the seat of power is one thing: to possess and exercise a share in that same power is a very different thing.
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Title: [[clxiv. 186] 1820 June 23 Emancipation]Description: [clxiv. 186] 1820 June 23 Emancipation Spanish ?. Interests Opposite Nay say they, but this notion, call it delusion or what else you please is necessary to government: and being necessary to government is necessary to good government, without government there is no security, no continued happiness: this delusion therefore, so far from destructive is necessary to general happiness: in a word to all the /whatever/ happiness man in this life is susceptible of. Necessary to government? Not it indeed. One single example of a government maintaining its existence maintaining it during a certain length of time, without any such delusion, is sufficient to disprove the assertion of such necessity altogether Look once more to the United States. Look there, and for upwards of these forty years you will see not merely in a single example but by a score of examples going on together, government maintained, and of any such delusion not a vestige in existence. Particular component States from which from the first all such delusion was banished, originally 13, now /already/ 22: a grand cluster of conjunct experiments 13 in number, made /instituted/ in the first instance: that great aggregate experiment succeeding without a single instance or shadow of failure, to this additional experiment after /upon/ experiment continually succeeding and uniform success the result. As to experiment the time of it is passed /past/: in regard to government without delusion, the existence of it, and to all appearance as far as the future can justly be inferred from the past the permanent, nay the perpetual existence of it amply established In all /every/ other governments in every other imaginable form of government the seeds of decay - of sure decay are visible and manifest; in this form of government of which equality without delusion is the leading principle, no such seeds are to be found.
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