1820 May 10

Deontology Spanish

'. People Sufferers

Under the desired dominion

The profit expected from the connection is it to be completely reciprocal and equal? if so then, to the people of Spain, by means of the dominion there is no profit. As great would their profit be without it, as by means of it.

To engage the people of Spanish America to join in the reaping of this profit, the desired? dominion over them is altogether needless.

But if there be any the smallest want of reciprocity, if in regard to reciprocity of profit, there be any the smallest deficiency, and that to the loss of the people of Spanish America, by /then/ the whole /visible/ amount amount of this loss, the system is manifestly a system of injustice.

Thus manifest as it is in the eyes of a stranger who except as a friend to mankind has no interest in it can it fail to be manifest in the eyes of those who have so deep an interest in it?

Their eyes are they not already open to it? In all this time can they have been kept shut?

But suppose them not as yet open to it. Is it in the nature of the case that they can be kept from opening /directing/ themselves to it? The new lights by means of which the people of Spain have emancipated themselves from the recent despotism, can they, by means of the desired dominion, be excluded from Spanish America? If no endeavour be used to exclude them they will find their way thither of course. If any such endeavour be employed, it can not be used /employed/ but by the endeavour to keep a foot in Spanish America that same system of despotism with which in both countries the people have been grieviously afflicted. And in that case, does any such endeavour present any the least promise of success? Success, against those who for such a length of time have maintained intercourse of ideas not only with English subjects but with the Citizens of the United States?