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1828. Jany. 16
Law Amendment orPropositions
What a challenge a is
not which as a virtue, but
courage which of itself is near
Dogs have it.
Forbidden by religion: not
less produced by religionists.
3. or 4. Amongst its various friends and rules offspring the fee-gathering system
is the fruitful mother of duets. For injury to reputation The remedy which it professes
to give to all, it denies to all but the comparatively
few who have wherewithal to purchase the chance
such as it is which it affords. Justice being flatly denied to all but the
comparatively few who have wherewithal to purchase a chance
for it, and by the influence of their so long rooted habit
the Public Opinion Tribunal in the aristocratical and most influential being to such a degree corrupted
section of it in case of every wrong, in every shape in which
it has the effect of an insult the Public Opinion Tribunal, in more especially the aristocratical and most influential section of it, being to such a degree corrupted
and perverted as to transfer to the
sufferers the measure due to the author of the wrong,
no other means instrument of keeping wrong in this most galling
shape within any tolerable bounds is left.
Hence under a well-adapted system of judicial
procedure the appropriate remedy would be divisible into
two branches. One consists in the furnishing in a form accessible
to all becomes accessible without expence, a legal remedy
for insult in every shape; 2. another other in so ordering matters
that in the case on the part men who under the existing system have in
but too great abundance adequate motives for summoning inviting
to this disastrous pastime there shall no longer be
any inciting motives but such the force of which will be sure to be
overpowered by that of the restraining motives.
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