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Show EMANCIPATION IN PORTO RICO. The Bjiaui-h cortus Las p.iwcd tbo oiuaDciiutit)Q biil f'r l'orto Rico, re-iiuluraiai re-iiuluraiai the o-vi.cr.n ut the blavca i'ur their Iusj, :ii.J rtquiriu Lho fa-cdmen to icuuia tluue ye.irawitlt tLoir former masters or rcaid'jnta of the island; although their emancipation i'roui a condition of clutud and forced tcrvi-tudo tcrvi-tudo follows iiiitb:diatc!y the promulgation promul-gation of thi law. This condition seems a hOUBihlt) mo, aa it wid gradually gradu-ally adcuiioui tliu m.iQUiiiUted freed-nicn freed-nicn to the oxero'i.io of the liberty thus bcatowed ujiun litem, and to learnioff t) work for iheiu.ulves, a training which many of them will doubtless iuu;h need. After li?e year, thoy are to eDjoy the political riyhta of Spanish oitizens; and even lul thid term oi probation between a ondition of marketable mar-ketable slavery aud cue of political sovereignty been extended for a few yoara longer, it could not have been reasonably found fault wilh. This uiaoh than, tho Spanish republic hat already done, and for thin it will deserve well of the world; for even should lijurbi'n machinations succeed in overturning it, to roatoro slavery in Porto Kico would bo a moro difficult matter than it haa been to secure tmincipation. |