JB_172_035.xml

Title: [1820. Sept. 24 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820. Sept. 24

Emancipation Spanish

'. Corruptive influence

If from valour successful or unsuccessful /courage crowned or not crowned with

success/ or successful displayed in offensive war, in the endeavour to enlarge ones

own dominion by conquest, or parcel out the dominion of other states or to keep in

subjection a people whose choice directs itself to other rulers any thing that can be

called honour or glory or honour and glory ought to be ascribed or considered /spoken

of/ as acquired, the epithet /one epithet betokening disapprobation //reprobation//

an epithet such as/ false should not fail to be prefixed

/attached/ to it, false as being the more common being employed instead of the more

characteristic appellative mischievous. In no case in which it is acquired by

injustice should the words honour and glory or either of them fail of receiving as in

either or both of these reprobative adjuncts, namely false

and mischievous.

But for this distinction to say to a soldier or to a commander of soldiers,

enthroned or unenthroned, let glory be your object is to say to him prepare yourself

to become a murderer, a depredator, a destroyer - all upon the largest scale

JB_164_109.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 109] 1820 June 24 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 109]

1820 June 24

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive in fluence

5 Mode of operation

Making War, in so far as not necessary for defence of the community against enemies /adversaries/ foreign or domestic, in particular to make war for conquest or for honour and glory, or for continuing dominion over the unwilling inhabitants of distant regions is to committ, in the moral sense of the English word murder, murder upon the largest scale: upon a scale proportioned to the extent of the hostilities.

In England, if in any instance any such war has been made, any such murder committed, an assemblage of men to whom the appellation of suborners of murder and in that sense /way/ murderers belongs /may be seen to belong/ by an indisputable title, are the Monarch, the House of Lords and the House of Commons, composing all together the King in Parliament, the sovereign body of the State the body in which the whole of the paramount power of government is lodged.

They are so as well in the active way as in the passive way - committers of the positive misdeed as well as of the correspondent negative misdeed on the supposition that profit in the shape of conquest, or prize money. Taken together they in that case on that supposition compose have composed a body of suborners, of corruptors of self-corruptors - the matter of corruption being in that case composed of the prize money together with the power in the shape of dominion the prime and preeminent fruit of conquest.

JB_172_036.xml

Title: [1820. Sept r. 24 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820. Sept r. 24

Emancipation Spanish

'. 5 Corruptive influence

But as it is impossible that by a war sucessful or unsuccessful so as the ill

success does not pass certain limits a limited[?] Monarch should not in respect of

his particular and sinister interest be a gainer - gainer by the increase given to

the matter /mass/ of coercive force, gainer by the increase given to the matter of

coercive influence, so it is impossible that to /in the breast of/ a Monarch so

situated, there should not be a perpetual tendency to plunge the nation into a war,

on every occasion in which a prospect of carrying it on without loss to himself

presents /should present/ itself. And thus it is that a nation which under a mixt

monarchy suffers itself to be plunged into an unjust and unnecessary war, hastens

whatever be the effect of the war its own enslavement.

Since therefore under a mixt monarchy war without any endeavours or designs to that

effect, /on the part of the monarch and those around him expressly deputed to notice/

the government is continually sliding on in its course to the gulph of despotism, it

follows that under a mixt monarchy, but for measure expressly taken for the purpose

of giving it a contrary tendency, such sooner or later will infallably be the effect.

Such measures so as they be but successful, and carried into effect without

bloodshed depredation and destruction to a preponderant ammount can not be too

efficient and effective can not raise /give/ the government too great a move /an

advance/ up the hill on the summit of which pure represenstative democracy has its

seat. Why? because that is the only form of government which is good, that is the

only form of government which is stable: pure monarchy is raised upon /seated in/ a

crater, under which a fresh[?] volcano may at any at any time burst forth: mixt

monarchy is ever upon the slide sliding downward towards this gulph in which rises

the elevation in the crater of which despotic monarchy is situated