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1820. June 12th.

Emancipation Spanish.

' 11 Rulers Arguments

' 3 Security mutual

What is above had been some time written, when in the Morning Chronicle of June 12th. last 1820 I saw the following paragraph.

Morn. Chron. June 12th. Madrid, March /May?/ 25.

"The Civil Governor of this Province has issued a Circular to the Citizens of the Trans-Marine Provinces resident in Madrid, to assemble on the 28th of this month of May, for the purpose of giving their votes for the Election of Members to the Cortes to represent the Colonies.

In this proceeding /operation/ there we have on /this//already/ additional exemplification of the virtues which in the situation in question, the situation of members of the administrative department /branch of the supreme operative power/ of government, may, in relation to the dominion in question be expected. /You/ the people of Spanish race in America are to be represented, by whom? by men of their own choice? No chosen in the first instance on the principle of virtually universal suffrage? No: by men in the choice of any one of whom so much as any one of his fellow countrymen resident at the time in the country in question was /had been/ admitted to give a vote? No: nor this neither. By whom then? By himself alone in every instance if many there be in which not more than one person belonging to the Colony in question happened to be at Madrid, at any rate in the instance of each province by a majority howsoever small of the number of persons howsoever small who on the day appointed happened to come under the description in question: happened to come under that description, that is in the judgement of the person or persons whosoever they might be, to whom the decisions on this point were /will have been/ by a person or persons not specified have been committed. Here then to a sham representation a representation declaredly spurious - the effect of a genuine representation is avowedly given.