JB/106/285/001

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1822 June 22
Junctiana Proposal

§.7. In the eyes of capitalists, from Anglo
§.7. Inducement shared by Mexico, Columbia, and the
American United States will be necessary of
Anglo American United States – water communication
between their ports on the one Ocean and on the other
§.6. Inducements common to Mexico, Columbia, and the
Anglo-American United States. – water communication between their ports in the one Ocean, and their ports in the other.

Of this benefit, little need here be said after the
bare mention of it. Of the matters of fact on which
the magnitude of it depends, nothing, in addition
to that which the maps indicated, can here be said.
To the inhabitants of the several territories, and in
particular to those by whom they have been contemplated
with either a political or a commercial
eye – to them, and to them almost alone, must the cognizance
of this part of the field of consideration be referred.

For the present, and doubtless for a long time
to come, to Mexico and Columbia will this benefit of course
be possessed, in by far the greatest magnitude. With its
settlement in the Columbian River that empties itself
into the Pacific, the confederation of which Washington
is the capital – Washingtonia if for this purpose it may,
for the moment, be called – will, at the first, be in the
state of the hen with one chick. But, out of so fertile a
womb, say who can, how many more such chicks
may not be destined to be poured forth! At any rate,
if it be worth while to keep her fed by a frequently interrupted
water carriage, and at the end of it a land
carriage, over a chain of mountains of 200 miles in
length, much more so must it be through the a level
and unbroken channel, of which dry land forms no
part.

In the instance of all three States, this benefit,
whatever may be the amount of it, has two
mutually contrasted yet intimately connected advantages.
To these States it belongs exclusively, as compared
with all other States. At the same time, neither in the
eyes of any one of those other States, can it be a ground
of complaint, or an object of jealously. If the act, of which
it is the result, were the act of man – of man with his selfish
and antisocial arrangements, yes. But no: it is the act
not of partial and hostile man, but of impartial and
bounteous Nature. Upon the here proposed plan, the only
acts in which man has any concern will be so many manifestations of beneficence: universal and indisputable beneficence.

Identifier: | JB/106/285/001"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	285	Info in main headings field	junctiana proposal
Image	001	Titles	inducements common to mexico, columbia, and the anglo-american united states - water communication between their ports on the one ocean, and their ports on the other
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d21 / e1
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	34873
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