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1822 June 22d
Junctiana Proposal {Pencil}Mexicos Inducements

In this state of things supposing the partnership
plan rejected, if it were not really the interest, it
would at any rate appear to be the interest, of all classes
in the Republic of Columbia, to act in a manner more
or less decaredly hostile to Mexico: to obstruct the settlement
of the Government: to foment divisions: to keep the
country in such a state of poverty, as should oppose an insuperable
bar to her putting herself in possession of so exclusive
and invidious an advantage.

All this while, what should never be
put out of mind, is- that for all these surmises, unpleasant
as they are, not any of the parties concerned, but
the penner of this proposal, and he alone is answerable.
TheAll individuals, on whom any thing depends being on
both sides alike unknown to him, the propensities so
universal in human nature constitute the only source,
from whence these indications of probable hostility
have been derived.

A much more pleasing object of contemplation
to him is the state of amity-cordial and
durable amity-which the sort of partnership here proposed
could not fail to number among its natural
fruits. The infant state would behold in them its common
parents. In the Anglo American Union, of whose
kindness the Columbian Republic has had such recent
experience, and at whose hands the Mexican
State has so sure and anticipation of the like kindness,-
they would behold a common friend: and a friend in case of
misunderstanding, whether on these or any other points,
a common reference- a reference such as for impartiality,
probity and sound sense, has assuredly never
as yet been matched in the history of nations.

One advantage, however, it must be confessed
there is, of which, in this plan, Mexico would put
herself exclusively in possession: an advantage in which
neither any other nation, nor even Columbia herself,
could claim any the least share. This is the glory of
so extraordinary, not to say unexampled a manifestation,
of the union of those two virtues to which all other virtues are reducible - effective benevolence and with self-
regarding prudence. In fact it would be nothing more than


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Identifier: | JB/106/279/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.

Date_1

1822-06-22

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

106

Main Headings

junctiana proposal

Folio number

279

Info in main headings field

junctiana proposal

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d15 / e8

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

34867

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