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1822 May + + A To General /s Martin, Peru
This paragraph is in very small script is it that you will find wish if what to profess to be as yet
This m our public presets present you to my view under the title of Protector of Peru — Protector, with invested with absolute authority, accept in so far as it may happen to be at any time his pleasure to limit it. This character is an ambiguous one. It can Let the character be temporary and the design end in view and real design the establishment of a representative democracy as soon as the state of the country is ripe for it, it is the way not only the end, but eventually the very means, are the objects of a wish, which in relation to you the character had heard given you had led me to form. A I had been led to form in relation to the state of government in Chile, accounts from inner quarters had tended to impress upon my view. "At the head "of government in that country (said my informants) is O. Higgins a man of an " enlightened mind of the most benevolent relation. At the head of "the army is Sr Martin a man of ", [+] Continued in the margin [+] congenial character but who impairs his "vices more ex "than could be wished "to affairs purely : "and Horizontal line Continued in the main section " these two are bound together by the "ties of the most cordial friendship.
Unhappily but Unhappily though inferior to the Supreme Director in superior to them in power rank, conjunctly taken superior to him in power are a set of men of the most opt six in number description of very different [+]2 Continued in the margin description, the which together are Aristocracy of seven: a Septemvirate: the power of Supreme Director having but amounting to containing nothing more than that of his one voice. In the whole State no other power than this. No National Assembly: no governing body composed of Members elected by the people. Reason or pretence — the people not sufficiently ripe yet for the making an apt shew of their own rulers. Continued in the main section Of any particulars the mention here would be altogether useless: In many and very afflicting ones, including assertion of individual facts from persons of good character, and to appearance not included in any sphere of partiality, have
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letter 2891, vol. 11 |
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