1820 Sept. 24

Emancipation Spanish

'. 5. Corruptive influence

A single war may suffice to convert into a pure /[...?]/ despotic monarchy, the most

popular mixt monarchy that can be devised: the standing army which it has

necessitated may of itself suffice to produce that effect by coercion and terror,

without the addition of any of the matter of corruptive influence, the mass which it

heaps up of the matter of corruptive influence in the shape of lucrative offices,

power-girt offices and factitious dignities may of itself suffice for this without

the /more/ addition to the mass of coercive force and intimidation.

Without sufficient and appropriate explanation and restriction the bare utterance of

the words honour and glory national honour, national glory national honour is an

attempt to plunge the nation to the gulph of despotism, by means of murder,

depredation and destruction committed upon the largest scale.

There are but two cases in which personal courage displayed in a successful

engagement /combat/ or a successful war ought to be rewarded with any such

approbation as is [...?] by the use and application of the word honour or the word

glory: where it is displayed in the course of resistence made to oppressive forces

within, and where it is displayed in the course of resistence made to oppression from

within, or in the endeavour to exclude it and keep it excluded for the future: in a

word in the course of a war purely defensive, defence against foreign aggression and

defence against misrule.