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1822 March 31.
Rid Yourselves
Lett. Relinquishmt Mode
or 15.
1. As to your interest,
it being your interest
to part with Ultramarians,
so is it so to do
on terms most advantageous
to you.
By supposition in
Money benefit none
obtainable: remains
do. in honour: viz. that
of being to
pursue greatest happiness
principle.
16.
2. As to U.S. interest
By supposition, from
admission of the province
into their confederacy,
profit none.
Thence in their public
capacity as U.S.
functionaries on whom
it may depend, can
gain.
Against their deriving
any in their private
do., I will undertake
for their giving every
security the nature of
the case admitts of
17.
Sole and sufficient
benefit to them, adding
to the glory of their
Country and its form
of Government
18.
If destined to look out
for competitors, look to
England. But first enquire
of all the States
of whose interests the
rulers have professed
to take charge, what
has been their conduct
to them.
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Lett. Relinquishmt Mode
18 contind.
England – the country
in which notwithstanding
all that is done against
the press, I remain
ever destroyed,
because MP's have a
faint colour of democracy,
that they may
show themselves for
sale.
19.
Objections to looking to
England, no competitor
for purchase.
True, ruler's willing,
but by the call for retrenchment
rendered enviable unable
[Details are here given]
20.
2 Your wish is by supposition
to give consent
to them. This they
would have in being
referred to U.S.
Grounds of it are
1. Louisiana, your past
conduct as to its inhabitants
2. Floridas: your present
do. as to do.
Hence they would see
that no military force
would be intruded on
them.
By their security in
dealing with you, they
would be reconciled to
the owing obligation to
foreigners.
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Lett. Relinquishmt Mode
21.
No such content could
they look for, if instead
of Washington's they
applied to Gweef's America.
☞ Details added.
22.
Purchaser: Sole nation
U.S.
Proof of their non-repugnance
to the practice,
purchase of Louisiana
from Bonaparte
24.
Services renderable by
you, what could they see
ground to pay for?
Sole services such as
might contribute to inhabitant
consent.
25.
State of things in which
for no such services
could any demand have
place – inhabitants universally
desirous to be
so transferred.
But in all dependencies
there are some so
affected to the governing
Country that the opinions
and inclinations of its rulers
are as such theirs –
acts, thence dispose to
theirs. To the
number of such obsequious
persons there
are no bounds.
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rid yourselves of ultramaria |
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john flowerdew colls |
[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]] |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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