Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

GOVERNMENT OF NEW GRANADA.
Bogota would seem to corroborate that statement. The Secretary
of State has just presented a law to establish immediately the
freedom of the press. The ministers, I see, have lately presented
a projected law for the decentralization of the financial administration of the Granadian Republic. This seems a hazardous experiment; for if it receives the national sanction, it will doubtlessly
tend to weaken much the Federal System here.
If each of these provinces (as they are called) has the management of its own financial affairs, the political power of the country
will most likely fall into anarchy. This country requires, I should
think, as much consolidation as possible; and any thing that tends
to overthrow the unity of government would materially injure its
prosperity.
They have a Vice-President here, after the example of the
United States, and his election, by late accounts, was just about to
take place. General Obando is the new "Designado." If the
President and Vice-President both should die, the "Designado" at
once assumes the supreme power of the government, and is immediately recognized as the head of the nation. In short, he is
another edition of the Vice-President, a second "en cas;" so that
New Granadians would seem to be very careful not to have a
chance of being left without a supreme governor for a moment.
They must, I suppose, be aware that they are terribly flighty
mice, and sure to play when the cat is away, since they seem
so anxious to provide a number of "deputy-provisionary-vice-subsupernumeraries."
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