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1824. April 17 Penal Law

Under the head of pardon, say - mercy grants pardon upon
payment of fees.

punishment: Where the offended ruler is that God which is in
heaven, dignity being infinite, that punishment ought to be,
and is, in each instance, infinite. Where the offended ruler is
that God which is on earth, the punishment ought not to be infinite,
it ought only to be next to infinite. Where justice alone
consulted, such, accordingly would be the punishment of this
sinner. But, in the heart of that God which is upon earth,
and with us, justice has, for her never-failing companion and
appeaser, mercy whose other name is clemency. Mercy has for
her function office the rendering of no effect to an amount more or
less considerable the decrees of justice. In this, as in all other
cases, mercy has interposed, and, after deducing from what has
been ordained by justice — what has been subtracted from it by
mercy, the balance is what any sentence forms that punishment
which my anythe sentence is about to declare.

Among the ingredients of this rhetoric, is an ingenious irony:
that irony of which the name is sarcasm. In the language of social
intercourse, a visit, in the most frequent signification of the
word, is a journey made to a mans's in his residence for motives
of kindness — for the manifestation of kindness, such, as your sentence
declares, is the kindness, the loving kindness, which you, the
convict, the offending sinner, have deserved, and deserve at the
hands of that God which is in heaven, at the hands of his most excellent
and most worthy representative that God which is upon
earth and with us at the hands of me whom you see his
representative and servant.

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Date_1	1821-04-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	030	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11245
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