1820 Sept. 28

Emancipation Spanish

' 16 Relinquishment honorable

Slave-holding relinquished

Slave trade and slave-holding - Think of the effect which the retention or

relinquishment of the dominion can not but have on your national honor and dishonour

in so far as dependent on the course taken with reference to these two heads

By relinquishment, what a monster of reproach will you not shake off on this score

reproach not only of the purchasing of human beings for the purpose of plunging them

into slavery, but that of keeping in that sink of misery those who are already

plunged /lying/ in it.

Seated thus upon the pinnacle of universal benevolence, the only source of true

honour you will look down upon the nations at present the most honoured upon earth.

You will look down upon the English, you will look down even upon the Anglo-American

States. If there be a provision for the highest erection of universal benevolence,

you will have earned it.

The English have used their endeavours to have done with /put an end/ the buying

/practice/ of men for the purposes of treating them as beasts the English have used

their endeavours to put an end to the Anglo-Americans have imitated this example.

Good: so far as it is goes. But how far short does it not fall of that [...?], to

which it is so desirable for the good of mankind /all nations/ at large /in general/

and most of all for the good of those same nations that it should go /reach/

Were they /the English/ to do so any otherwise than by doing what you are here

exhorted to do - emancipating those Ultramarians what exertions what sacrifices would

it not cost them! What would it not cost their slave-trading Ultramarians to

retransform into men those beings whom their rapacity has transformed into beasts?

The Anglo-Americans - they are happy enough to have no Ultramarians: But as to

slave-holding they are in the same situation as the English Ultramarians. those

English who, while for the profit of the /English/ ruling few in England they remain

subject to the dominion of English rulers, fix /continue/ upon the English nation

/people/ - rulers and subjects together - the reproach of being a nation of slave

holders.