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1822. June 28.
Junctiana Proposal

Lake Nicaragua is included: and, if the information received
be correct, not only the contiguous land on the side
of Mexico is regarded as appertaining to Mexico but also
the contiguous land on the side of Columbia.

If this be not the case-if the claims or expectations
of Mexico do not embrace both sides, here ends
this difficulty. But, if they do embrace both sides, then it is
that the difficulty will have place: for, then it is that by
Mexico, according to the plan here proposed, a sacrifice
to a certain amount will have to be made.

For its direct object, this plan has the securing
the establishment of the communication for the benefit of
all nations without exception: and more particularly for
the benefit of Mexico, Columbia and the Angle American
States; these being the three nations to which local proximity
will render it in a peculiar degree advantageous: But more over For
its collateral object, it has-the prevention of all that ill-will
as between Mexico and Columbia, of which the possession of
so great an advantage to Mexico, to the exclusion of Columbia,
could scarcely, the nature of man considered, fail if being productive backed by all the other nations of the earth.
Betwixt Mexico and Columbia?_With more propriety might it have been said-between Mexico on the one part, and the other part Columbia,

This heart-burning, this source of war and
disappointment-this it is, that presents itself to view,
as the great natural stumbling-block to the undertaking: this stumbling
block, it is the principal object of this proposal to
remove.

Suppose even that, by itsher own resources, and
within itsher own dominions, it were compleatly in the
power of Mexico, to establish communication: still
this stumbling block would remain unremoved: a nation,
which, for a long time, at sea at least, could not but
remain a weak noneone- this weak nation, embarked in a
project, presenting a face of injury to all the power upon
earth!

For the sake of peace in general, and for the
peace and safety ofto Mexico in particular, this proposal
has therefore its main object, the preventing a possession,
thus important to all nations, from being endeavoured
to be taken for an objecta subject of exclusive property
by any nation: to preserve it from becoming a bone of contention
to all nations: to preserve it from this fate, by placing it in the conjunct hands of

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Identifier: | JB/106/275/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1822-06-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	junctiana proposal
Folio number	275	Info in main headings field	junctiana proposal
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d11 / e4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	34863
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