1820 Aug. 10

Emancipation Spanish

Already in the five despots Spain behold so may undisguised and threatening enemies;

To render resistence effectual - the utmost force she can muster, can it ever be too

great? Is this a time for dissipating any part of it in a pursuit so distant? By

/upon/ grasping at such shadows of dominion, shall Spain have to reproach herself

with having let drop the substance of interior security and independence? For so

faint a chance of imposing the yoke of their rulers on their fellow sufferers, will

the subject many be content to submitt their necks to the very yoke from which by

little less than a miracle they have so lately liberated themselves, aggravated with

the additional and as yet useful[?] yoke of the confederated tyrants?

The danger from the success of liberty is already present: from the dominion the

most sanguine can anticipate /hold out/ nothing better than an exhausting

expenditure, certain and immediate, in pursuit of an indeterminate profit from a most

uncertain and at best a distant future. The struggle will be taking all the while its

uncertain course, but what in the mean time is to become of the exhausted body by

which all the exertions are to be made?