The Tlaotani of the Aztecs, the rulers of the Tarascans and the Tlaxcalans, holding little formal power under British rule, particularly after the Cuextecatl Mutiny, had tired of their vassalage. They had agreed to meet with disgruntled plantation owners in the east and the former Mayan lands in Raleightown.
"I am Colonial Assemblyman Thomas Whickton. So good of you gentleman to join us."
"We come on behalf our nations, good sir, as well as to seek the restoration of our rightful, Quetzalcoatl bestowed authority."
"Verily well. Our grievance with Mother England is her abolition of slavery most recently. Our fortunes in this fair equatorial land have come from cultivation of cocoa, tobacco and sugar cane by African laborers imported after plagues reduced the Maya in great number. This act of Parliament would put us all in poorhouses."
"So, you propose to declare independence?"
"That we do. Given your realms' strength and that at least some of you have converted to Anglicanism or some other church, we thought perhaps you would join us in this venture."
"We among the Aztec did not lose our reverance for our gods, though my peer the leader of the Tarascans would lick the rear of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The British West Indies Company may have taken many of our vassals and stopped our sacrifices and put those of us who survived the plagues to work in factories, but never did we forsake Quetzalcoatl and Tlaloc. All the same, it would please us greatly to throw off the English yoke. But, you, all of you, Mr. Whickton, are yourselves, Englishmen. What guarantee have I that you shall not treat us with the same perfidious mercantile greed and sowing of political division your countrymen, as merchant conquerors before the Mutiny and as official masters after?"
"You have our word as gentlemen. Aside from that, militarily, we are a good bit weaker. You have larger armies than we. We do not desire your lands, merely to maintain our own profitability that the Abolition by the Crown and Parliament threatens."
"If those plantations, once the lands of the Maya, did perchance lose their profitability in war if not in legislation, than perhaps we would suffer their fate of dispossesion and servitude, those that did not die of the pox."
"Perhaps, if you were to aid us in this struggle, we could become separate, though fraternal nations, uniting to throw off Mother England grown too smothering, and then part of ways, you returning to your old customs and empires, and we to our society of gentlemen landowners?"
"A partition is what you propose?"
"Yes. A war of independence, followed by a partition."