[clxiv. 113]

1820 June 25

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

5. Mode of operation

In a legal sense these men were, not any of them, murderers; in a legal sense they were not any of them robbers: in a legal sense they were not any of them pirates: in a legal sense they were not any of them suborners; in a legal sense they were not any of them persons suborned: in a legal sense they were not any of them transgressors, misdoers. Why so? How so? Because by law impunity was provided for them and all other men in their respective situations, in respect of whatsoever transgressions and misdeeds taking the /those/ words in a moral sense, they may have been guilty, in respect of whatsoever mischiefs and miseries by means of those misdeeds they may have been the authors of, impunity was and is pro