ABSTRACT
America, since discovered by the Europeans, hath suffered greatly by various political errors; through prejudice, with its consequents injustice and cruelty, Spain slew her millions, of whom she might, to the great encrease of her honour, wealth and strength, have made good subjects, or profitable allies. Rational liberty, and equal justice, plenty and safety, being the chief ends of all lawful government, the misconduct of Spain, with its consequences, will, to all ages and nations, irresistibly prove against a thousand authors, who join hand in hand to countenance dark devices, and promote iniquity, that the principle of universal felicitation is the best mean of preservation and aggrandizement. Rome when in her flourishing estate was brought to the brink of ruin by the social war, occasioned by her refusal to communicate the Roman right.
