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Columbia Echeveras Dos Palabras — Translation
by Mrs
Austin

Two Words to the Reader.

What have the inhabitants of Spanish America
attempted since 1810 more than the
Spaniards of Europe accomplished in 1808?
Precisely nothing — both have combatted for
their independence & in order to obtain so great an
advantage have repelled force by force.

What other principles do the former now proclaim
but those which had already been
consecrated in the national code of their ancient
metropolis? None; both worlds seek to establish
national representation, liberty of the press
individual security, equality in the light of
the Law, & also the guarantees which the information
of the age in which we live has recognized
as appropriate or indispensable to for the
consolidation of the common well being.

With what then can the Europeans have to
reproach the Americans when they first set
them example & then taught them the means?

It will be said, as it in fact it has been said,
that the Spanish Const~on by granting to some equal
rights

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Identifier: | JB/012/054/001
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Date_1

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Box

012

Main Headings

Folio number

054

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columbia echeveras dos palabras translation by mrs austin

Image

001

Titles

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

Watermarks

gater

Marginals

Paper Producer

laetitia lind

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

4115

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