1820 July 10

Emancipation Spanish

' Creoles repugnant

You have risen against your Kings former /late/ advisers and you are following their example /treading in their steps/ you are pursuing that very course which led them to their overthrow. Whatsoever /That which/ you would not that men - that any man - should do unto you, at any time that you are determined upon doing and for ever, unto us. In vain therefore would you endeavour to preserve to yourselves the sympathy and esteem of the friend of liberty and mankind: in vain could you claim the praise of generosity in vain could you continue your claim to the title of liberals. In your eyes, or at any rate on your lips, wrong becomes right as soon as it becomes conducive to your interests, or at any rate to what you think your interests - your private and sinister interests. Your generosity is all selfishness: your love of liberty is the mere love of power and nothing else.

Against these things should they be said what can you /they/ find to say? And behold they have been said already said! They have been said by one, but they will have been heard by millions.

Suppose it were put out of doubt, that neither by all these sources of injustice together nor by any one of them any complaint was produced in the iron age /age of darkness/ think whether it would follow that these doubts be any one of them by which complaint would not be produced in the new age of light.