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1821 Jan 6

Rid Yourselves

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Preliminary Distinctions

1 Feb. 1821

For polishing the diction pp. 2, 3 and 4 of this though superseded may be consulted with 3 o and 4 o or revision

My friends, of a most particular examination and of a most attractive and long continued consideration the result I have come to is this - that not only to the whole people of Ultramaria, but to you the people of Spain - speaking at least of the vast majority of you, what seems to be regarded among you as your dominion over Creolia - or to speak more explicitly your union with the people of Ultramaria under one government, on the plan delineated in your Constitutional Code, is upon the balance /in every possible state of things/ mischievous in the extreme: it was so under your former despotism: it would be so under and notwithstanding your Constitutional Code: in whatever part of Ultramaria if in any, that Code obtained acceptance the mischief would follow it and adhere to it

I proceed to present to your view my proofs: with the considerations - with the facts and the connection between those facts that have led to this conclusion

1. Mark well - it is you the great body of the people of Spain, and to you alone, that I speak: it is moreover your interests and yours alone that on this occasion have been objects to which in a direct way my attention has all along pointed itself. /All this while/ of the people of Ultramaria it has been all along necessary for me to speak: to their interests it has not been possible for me to be inattentive. But it is only on account of the connection of their interests with yours' that on this occasion their interests have been the objects of my regard.

It is on this necessity, and that alone that I found my claim to any attention on your part to any thing that I shall have occasion to say in relation to the interests and afflictions of these your distant and distantly situated and unknown kinsmen over whom some among you wish and strive to resume the rule: for I have I ever seen, nor do /shall/ I expect so long as man is man to see on the part of any people, any real regard for the interests and feelings of any other people over whom they rule