1820 Oct. 16 Spanish liberticide measures 6 Letter 3? Introd. Letter 1 6

 Postpone this to Letter III.

Will it be said – Anglo-Columbia is not Spain? – I admitt it. But if from such

liberty, carried to such perfection, the danger, if any, is in that Republic so

minute it would be still less in your monarchy. In the Monarchy there are no

such facilities for the abuse of the liberty as in the Republic: in the Monarchy

/Republic/ there are /no/ such means of immediate repression as in the Republic

/Monarchy/ have in existence. In the Monarchy there exists not on the part of

the people at large such habit of assembling for discussion on political

subjects as in the Republic; no such formed habits of concert and arrangement on

those occasions: in the Monarchy the proportion of those who are in possession

of fire arms and of the habit of using them is in comparison of what it is in

the Republic extremely small: in the Monarchy, the proportion of the armed and

trained military men under the command of the public functionaries – regulars

and militia together is much larger than in the Republic and much more uniformly

distributed/ -ly small: in the /your/ Monarchy the supreme command of the

military force regulars and militia together is concentrated in one visible and

perpetually existing and vigilant hand: in the Republic it is in an unseen and

ever-changing body/.