[clxiv. 128]

1820 June 10

Emancipation Spanish

? 8. Corruptive influence

I do not say that while there is one hand /any person/ able and willing to render it the interest of the representatives and other trustees of the people to betray their trust in such sort as to reproduce an absolute despotism /a despotic tyranny/, that trust will not be sure sooner or later to be betrayed accordingly, although no such distant dominion had place: I do not say and consequently that the abandonment /abdication/ of that dominion would of itself be sufficient for ever to prevent the breaking of that same trust. All I say is that by /from/ the preservation of that dominion, the consummation of the breach of trust in question, and the reproduction of that same tyranny will be in a prodigious degree accelerated. will receive certainty and promptitude.