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in Puito — and the presence of Bolivar is pessary to maintain
a dubious as according in Luito. There us besides a spirit of hostil—ity
towards the present system of Govt growing up even in the minds
of the firmest patriots, and best wishers to independence.
"Much is breeding
hath yet but life
"which like the
"and not a serpents poison."
The cause of all this is easily unfolded. During all the
changes of the revolution, the mass of people, has seen little
change, but a change of masters. The constitution however fal—lacious
in its general structure still presented some points d'appui
to liberty, but the constitution has been always used misused like a
child's rattle, shown to him on holidays & then laid aside lest
he should break it. Under the denunciation of "Provinces which
"are the seat of war," or are "adjacent to those which are the seat of
"war" or "such as likely to become the seat of war"— the
whole country has been subjected to a military deposition, in the
hands of the executive and his delegates, the local military au—thorities.
All this is the necessary consequence of the central
system, in a country so vast, impassable & depopulated, but the cen—tral
system has been upheld for the sake of this consequence
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