[clxvii. 276]

1820 Aug. 30

Emancipation Spanish

'.2. To Subrulers unendurable

As to the seven other individuals it is determined /settled/ that they shall be elected 326: elected by the body of the people: elected, namely in Art 328 "by the district Electors, on the day following that appointed deputies to the Cortes." But /by 59/ the District Electors are themselves to be elected by the Parish Electors: /stiled by Art. 44 Parish Electors: and By Art. 44 they by the Parish tempores, and by Art. 38. 41 the Parish tempores they by the Parish Inhabitants: by 73 the District Electors being by the Parish Electors elected "in secret scrutiny".

In the case of the functionaries of this class it seems supposed that probably individuals enough may be found who, for the sake of the power and the dignity, may be willing to serve without pecuniary emolument: for, in this instance. no clause /Article/ for compelling men to serve, as in the case of the Ayuntamientos 319 that /a/ body the power of which is confined within the precincts of a tract of territory designated by the name of a Town, is provided.

Such then you see is the division which, in pursuance of this scheme of dominion has been made of the fruits of government: the choicest of the sweets for themselves and one another: the bitters with scarce any of the sweets for the Ultramarians. An arrangement of this nature is it in man's nature to submitt to it, if he can avoid it? At the same time, what you can see beyond all possibility of dispute is - that it is only in proportion as the arrangement is of this nature - a system of bare-faced injustice and oppression, that any advantage can be derived from it by any man of your number: nor even in these terms can any advantage be derived from it by seeing men among you, but at the expence of all who do not share in it.