1820 Oct. 4 Spanish liberticide measures Hermosa Inserendumne Army People

friends[?] Hermosa Soldier Levy

The enemies of chicane behold in Soldiers their natural allies. Neither in their

interests nor in their prepossessions have they any intercourse mainly with

lawyers. Soldiers as such have no part in the sinister interest which forms the

bond of fraternity among lawyers. In the military department there must be

punishment and judicial procedure for the infliction of it. Among military men

there must therefore be Judges as well as suitors. But an army could not hold

together /be in existence/ if in that department the course of procedure were no

better adapted to the ends of justice than it is to that in which the procedure

is the work of lawyers. Necessity in that case forces men into the /a/ right

course: and the necessity meets with the less resistance because in this case

neither those by whom the system was /has been/ framed nor by those who act

under it is any thing to be got by rendering the course opposite instead of

conducive to /deviating the course from the direction prescribed by / that leads

to// the ends of justice.

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