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dinary, stronger league than has ever been formed in the world. The 

 Holy Alliance will be less powerful than this confederation, should Eng- 

 land be willing to be a party as a constituent member. Mankind will 

 bless a thousand times such league for the public weal, and America as 

 well as Great Britain will reap its benefits. 



The relations of political communities would obtain a code of public 

 law for their universal rule of conduct. 



1. The New World would be formed by independent nations bound 

 together by a common set of laws which would fix their foreign relations 

 and would give them a conservative power in a general and permanent 

 congress. 



2. The existence of these new States would obtain new guaranties. 



3. Spain would make peace through respect for England, and the 

 Holy Alliance would recognize these new rising nations. 



4. Internal order would be preserved untouched, both among and 

 within each of the different States. 



5. No one would be weaker than the other, no one the stronger. 



6. A perfect balance would be established in this true new order of 

 things. 



7. The strength of all would come to the aid of the one suffering from 

 a foreign enemy or anarchical factions. 



8. Difference of origin and color would lose their influence and power. 



9. America would have nothing more to fear from that awful monster 

 which has devoured the island of Santo Domingo, nor would there be 

 any fear of the preponderance in numbers of the primitive inhabitants. 



ID. Social reform, in short, would have been attained under the 

 blessed auspices of liberty and peace, but England should necessarily 

 take in her hands the beam of the scales. 



Great Britain would undoubtedly attain considerable advantages 

 through this arrangement. 



1. Her influence in Europe would progressively increase and her deci- 

 sions will be like those of destiny. 



2. America would serve her as a wealthy commercial domain. 



3. America would be to her the center of her relations between Asia 

 and Europe. 



4. English subjects would be considered equal to the citizens of 

 America . 



5. The mutual relations between the two countries in time would 

 become the same. 



6. British characteristics and customs would be taken by Americans 

 as standards of their future life. 



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