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1820 August 14
Emancipation Spanish
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Creoles claims as good
If by a contravention of any of the rules /principles/ as /among [...?] the dictates
of justice and reason the claim in question to dominion were / be/ in any eyes
rendered adverse, time it is that those of /for regarding/ the confederated despots
as being of the number little reason seems capable of being given: justice is with
them, an object of hatred and contempt: an object of scorn and mockery. At this
moment is there not a treaty in existence a treaty by which the despot of England
guarantees those very possessions and for ever to the despots of your country whoever
they may be? guarantees that is if it be any thing, engages to employ the whole force
and property of us the people of England in the endeavour to seize the whole property
of your American kinsmen, and for no other purpose than the delivering it up to the
hands of your rulers/ [...?] as he was, was he so [...?] as at the time of so
entering on such a trial to entertain the slightest intention to perform in any event
any part of that which he thus promised to do at all events? Not he indeed. What then
was his object? what but those of which on this occasion as on all others is among
the objects of all despots to obliterate in mens mind, all regard for justice /it/
//to bring justice itself into contempt// As often as they abuse their power justice
is in their eyes an enemy: and as they now use it /their power/ but to abuse it
Justice never ceases to be an enemy in their eyes. In their addresses in their
asrguments - every thing accordingly is placed on the ground of power nothing is
placed upon the ground of justice Our /My/ call is so and so: it is /if you fail to
conform //to obey// yourselves to it/ power it is to destroy you if you fail to
conform to it: therefore if you in your /such/ obedience we will destroy you doing so
is keeping good order, and good order we are determined to keep at all times it is
your duty to conform /obey/ your conduct to their wills
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Title: [1820. Aug. 14 Emancipation Spanish]Description: 1820. Aug. 14 Emancipation Spanish Summary Mode of riddance What, can nothing be done for them but by putting a force upon /forcing/ their inclinations /will/? Can nothing be done for them by the influence of understanding upon understanding? by taking thought? Think what you have done already done for Naples! for Naples, and what without expence in any shape; without expence /[...?/ even in the shape of thought. To the Neapolitans - to these strangers - already you have given - and without price /without so much as a thought, as well as without any money price/ - a boon which in value is beyond all price. You have given them your constitution. Upon whomsoever it was forced upon the people it was not forced by you whose glorious work it was not forced upon any body. With this example before your eyes - and, if your eyes are /can be/ tired with looking at it, mine never can - with this example before your eyes, think whether it be true, that it is in no other way than by tyrannizising over them, that by governing them, and if they resist, destroyed by tyrannized over them, that a people can be served. No, my friends think not to do by your kinsmen what the continental despots did by unhappy Poland! - leave to the Despots of Russia - leave to the Despots of Prussia, leave to the Despot of Austria - leave to the Feeder-general of all Despotism to assume that it is only by destroying one part of their people and robbing the rest that a people can be served: fearing not that servitude under a despotism is the only security for good order the only remedy against anarchy.
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Title: [1820 August Emancipation Spanish]Description: 1820 August Emancipation Spanish Summary Creoles claim as good Time it is that, care you ever so little for their feelings and their interests - care you ever so little for what /that which/ in relation to them are the dictates of justice it is impossible that you can care less for them than they are cared for by the confederated despots: for these despots who in [...?] guaranteed to your rulers their despotism over these same colonies who often guaranteed to the traitors the /a/ constitution founded on aristocratical despotism and English corruption but still less deformed the preceding despotism, looked on and laughed when they saw it conclude who had it been their desire and endeavour to render the master /themselves/ whom they served objects of abhorrence to all mankind /nations/ could scarcely have pursued a course better adapted to that purpose. But if ever the force of public opinion at large - the opinion of the subject many were on the score of a man's /a rulers/ personal interest worth attending to it is now: and when men /a man/ have nothing to gain by injustice, nor by any particular and strong prejudice are set against justice, justice is never /seldom/ altogether without some hold upon their /his/ regard. If then, in all persons who are without personal interest and without delusive prejudice, your claim to that dominion should appear utterly unreasonable it may be not altogether, even with a view to your own interest unworthy of your considerations whether by an opinion /a general persuasion/ to this /that/ effect /of the injustice of this claim/ your chance of prevailing in case of a contest, with /against/ those your kinsmen, or any portion of them on this ground, might not be apt to be lessened by it.
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