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1820 Aug. 31
§ Domination impossible
§. Creoles unwilling.
New lights have made it so.
§ New lights made it unendurable
66 86 36.
Under the despotism, this,
and more, was, and wd.
have been, effected. Under
constitution, neither this,
nor any thing like it, can
be. By Art. 335, people,
through Deputation, as above have
negative on all taxes.
New lights
67 87 37
As to Government, under
the despotism, Spain was
kept in a state next to
darkness: Ultramarinia
in utter darkness.
Under Constitution, unless
as to Ultramarinia,
it is to be a dead letter,
political light can not
be more universally diffused,
eyes more widely
open to it in Span than
there.
68 88 38.
Same in both countries
1. System of Education
366. to 371.
2. Reading and Writing
qualification for voting.
25. 35. (Might not reading
have sufficed:)
69 89 39.
Under imaginary English
Constitution, while Education
force is applied, by
corruptive influence, to
turn aside all eyes from
Government field, that
complaint of abuse may
be perpetually drowned
in bright applause under
real existing Spanish do.,
per 368, Universities and
literary establishments,
where ecclesiastical and
political sciences are
taught, are bound to explain
Constitution.
70 90 40.
Will they, then, be desirous
or able to exclude,
from Ultramarinia, comments
such as the people,
or those who feel for them,
may make? this for example:
wild enthusiast
or
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§ Domination impossible
§. Creoles unwilling.
New lights have made it so.
§ New lights made it unendurable
70 90 40 continued.
New lights
or corrupt hireling as the
author may be in some eyes –
[as Grey, Erskine, Russell, &c,
thought shrinking from mentioning
him, would have him thought?] Not unless
371. is mocking 371. by which
"All Spaniards have liberty
"to write, print and pubish
"their political ideas, without
"any necessity for a licence,
"examination, or approbation,
"previous to publication:"
and, per Art. 18, 21, &c no
distinction in words between
Spanish subjects in Spain,
and do. in Ultramarinia,
as described in Art. 10.
71 91 41.
Gladly would I stop here:
can not, without misrepresentation:
"Subject." (it
continues) "to the restrictions
"and responsibility established
"by law." What, if they
destroy the liberty? Effect or
not, sooner or later such
will be the object, unless,
in Spain, man is not what
he is in France, & England.
No where, of themselves,
have rulers brought themselves,
nowhere but in U.
S. have they, by people, been
brought, to endure to hear
observations on their conduct,
other than agreeable
to their taste.
72 92 42.
In Spain, assuredly for
some time, rulers will not
attempt any such destruction,
any such restriction
or responsibility: if so, neither
can they have in Ultramarinia,
without palpable
violation of 367.
73 93 43.
Every Spaniard (373) has
a right of Memorial to the
Cortes or the King, to claim
the benefits of the observance
of the Constitution. I, not:
I have not the honor to be
a Spaniard. I have the
dishonor to be an Englishman
subject
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§ Domination impossible
§. Creoles unwilling.
New lights have made it so.
§ New lights made it unendurable
73 93 43 continued
Subject (not citizen) of that
Kingdom in which, knowing
there is no more Constitution
than in Sapula, every man
appeals to the Constitution he
imagines at the moment, for
the purpose of the argument
of the moment-basis, a system
of imposture of which,
(except by denying its existence
no man can speak without
a lie in his mouth: a system,
under which priests are
rewarded for ordering innocents
to be slaughtered.
I am no Spaniard. But
this my tribute of respect and
affection for Spaniards, any
Spaniard, any Ultramarinian,
may make his own
who, for the unjust and impracticable
purpose of drawing
money from him, without
equivalent, is thus included
under the name
of Spaniard: and, by it,
claim the benefit of whatsoever
part of it Constitution
is not founded on injustice.
74
Added in conclusion
74.
Keep to the Constitution
fairly and sincerely
you get nothing from
Ultramaria. Violate
the Constitution, whether
it be by force or
fraud, you not only
get nothing from her
but you instead of
your sad a profitable friend, you
made her a troublesome
and inferior
many.
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Traveller 5 March 1821
From Curaçao through
Jamaica. An order has
been sent out by the King
of Spain, to allow the importation
of all books without
distinction into the Spanish
provinces. It is said
that many respectable inhabitantsdividuals who
both in Laguzon and
Curaçao, who previously
appeared to be possessed of
such books only as were
tolerated by the Inquisition,
immediately on the publication
of the above order
exhibited splendid and
valuable libraries, including
books of all classes.
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