1820. Sept. 4

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

Mode of riddance

By this magnanimity Spain would set the example of England. Shew

England what true /pure/ glory is - and that it is not wild, absurd, or visionary, or

visionary and senseless, a magnanimity quiescent not condemned by prudence. Leave

cut-throat glory to Wellingtons and Bonapartes.

To call back to mind the so nearly analagous expedition the commision that went no

longer than last year went to Buenos Ayres and Chile from the United States. With no

complacent eye of course was it regarded by your rulers of those days /that time/:

with very different eyes would it, on the above supposition be regarded the rulers of

present time /by men in that same situation in the present state of things/. By the

most frugal of all governments, when the sole object was to know whether the people

in question were in a condition to be traded with and contracted with the expence of

that commission was not grudged. As little would the expence of the like commission

be grudged to every other Province in Spanish America be grudged, when to that object

would of course be added /of course/ that of actually forming treaties with them; and

when /especially if/ to a commission and order to that effect were added if not one

order, at any rate /the least/ an understood permission to render towards the

adopting of a popular constitution to the circumstances of the province in question,

whatsoever assitance might by the joint dictates of /under the guidance of/

benevolence and prudence be rendered at the hands of superior to inferior

experience.