1820 Sept. 5

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

Mode of riddance

The happier you are - the better your government is the more anxious

the class of malefactors last mentioned will be to put the speediest end to such your

/tremendous/ anarchy: if at the moment whatever it be the anarchy was /is/ /be/ not

yet come, it would be so much the surer of coming the next. Had not taxation already

so happily found its limit in the hands of our rulers I should at this moment have

been paying taxes /in a course of taxation/ to put down your anarchy, instead of thus

taxing myself for the support of it.

Man is man every where. That which men do with /to/ us because they

dare, they will do with you if they dare: and dare they ever will /to dare they will

not fail/ in proportion as the watch which at present it is to be hoped you keep over

them relaxes in its vigilance. Neither on this nor on any pretence, suffer them not

on this or on any other pretence to do to others that which if done by others to

themselves and you would by themselves as well as you be cried out against, and with

reason, as the most atrocious injury.

Anarchy is the thing they profess to fear: anarchy is the thing they fear or wish

for, according to the quantity of it, and the seat of it and the quantity of it. In

their own dominions if there be this or that remnant of popular right undestroyed,

they see or wish for anarchy that is for an expression of the popular voice so it be

not too loud and extensive as a pretence for destroying it. In the country of a

neighbouring people /a neighbouring State/, there can not be too much of it: the more

there is of it the more copiously /amply/ it serves them and in two ways: it

strengthens /gives strength to/ the pretences for interference, and what is so much

more valuable to the facility of interfering with effect.