[clxiv. 118]

1820 June 28

Emancipation Spanish

?.8 Corruptive influence

Oh but (say the advocates of masked despotism) the Chief functionary ought not to be - can not be - ought not to be - removable: Remove him - make but the most distant preparation towards removing /the removal of/ him - think what a convulsion! Then you have anarchy civil war, and so forth.

Can not be? O yes, it is just possible: for it was once done. But what a mass of misery had first been produced before it could be done. But, they are passed, those days: gone never to return. Removed now? No; to be sure, that he can not be: and nor would there be any use in his being removed, were any other to take his place: and, this being settled /established/, the ought not to be is not worth enquiring into.

But why is it that /what is the cause why/ he can not be removed? Exactly /But if in this removal there is any such impossibility, what is the cause of it? This and no other/ it is because of the enormous weight of the power that he is suffered to have: Go about removing him you might as well might you go about removing upon wheels the palace in which he is enshrined.

But, in the nature of the case in the general nature of government - is there any thing to prevent the removal of the Chief functionary? Look to America! Look to the Anglo-American United States! Behold there your answer: it has been speaking to you these /above/ forty years, and the louder it has been speaking to you, the more vigorous your exertions in stopping your ears, to every such sound.