1820 Aug. 14

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

Creoles claim as good

You have thus seen the regard shown for justice by despots in their dealings with

those whom they found or hoped to find subject to their power. Now then /An example

such as this/ my friends - this example my friends is an example that you will

follow? /for you to follow/ Can you possess as much as a wish to recreate dominion

over ony one of those territories against the wish of its inhabitants without openly

disavowing all regard for justice. You cast off the yoke /withdraw yourselves from

the dominion/ of your King's late advisors. Why? beause the dominion was exercised in

a manner detrimental /adverse to your will/ hurtful to your feelings and detrimental

to your interests because in a word you did not choose to continue under it. These

kinsmen of yours they withdrew themselves suppose from your dominion: that meaning is

from the dominion of your rulers. This [...?] /repugnance/ which was so good in

[...?] in your case /behalf/ can it be otherwise than a good one in theirs [...?] but

they had been so long accustomed to bear the yoke. True: but that same yoke had you

yourselves been accustomed to bear it and still longer? Were you not your ancestors

stript to the skin by their Emperor King before he had received a maravedi from the

plunder of Peru and Mexico?