1820 Aug. 1

Omitted April 1822

Emancipation Spanish

See if this no be the case. Ammunition you have none: (a) Well then, forbear to provide that quantity which, but for the

cravings of the daemon, you would not have thought of providing: so forbearing you

produce not in any human breast any sense of suffering. So forbear in regard to stores of all sorts: so forbear in regard to men: to men for

the army, to men for the navy -

to men for every other brand of the service, to which the demands of the daemon would

be addressed.

You have or have not at present as yet you Council of the Indies. You will want no

Council of the Indies. But, like other men, the members of the supposed quondam

Council of the Indies will want subsistence. So with the present possessors of every

permanent fund, which to supply the more imperious expenses of the State you

extinguish. For all this you will have your rules: rules by which the great

controversy between the present and the future will some how or other be ended. It

belongs not to the present purpose to touch upon these rules. All that at present I

need by you to remember is - the daemon of ambition can better bear fasting than

human creature can: the daemon of ambition although he has the daemon of slaughter in

his belly: and that in the war I am waging against these daemons, I have King, Clergy

and Public Creditor[?] on my side.

Note (a)

(a) Cortes Sitting of July 13 th 1820. Per

Carga Arguelles War MInister.