1822 April

Rid Yourselves

Lett. 18. Relinquishent mode

'. 6. Case IV. Subjection uncontested

Buyers, foreigners.

Case IV. Dominion /Subjection/ uncontested: hands looked to for

payment, the hands of a foreign power: the money. purchase money.

This case presents itself to me as affording the best chance. It lies

within a narrow compass. If a bargain of this sort does not meet the views of the

Anglo-American United States After looking the world all over, one customer, and one

alone in any the slightest degree probable can I find for you - the President of the

Anglo-American United States. The territory which there seems any the least chance of

their looking upon as suiting them has again its limits: and they seem pretty decided

ones. It must be contiguous to theirs: it must be defensible and governable without

additional expence. No islands that your rulers still have will come within this

condition /these conditions/. Not that the President whoever he is will /would

//could// / have any objections. But this President has constituents: and these

constituents know better things than to keep on foot additional fleets and armies for

the maintenance of such distant dependencies to no better effect than the giving

encrease /swelling the amount/ to his patronage, and the formation of an Aristocracy

of which he shall be the head /with his office at the head of it/

The territories which your rulers still call your own between the Mississippi and

the Pacific - these are the territories to which you must have seen already, in my

view of the matter the choice confines itself. /whatever it may be, is confined/.

Distance vast and greatest: patronage to your rulers small: revenue to yourselves

none: not so much as the usual shadow of it. Thus so much as to what regards your

interests.