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1826. Septr 11.
Procedure Code.
§
Ch Procedure
English Practice
2 11
Personal liberty sold
to any one

Thus was the liberty of every man sold
to every man who would pay the price for it,
without other pretence than an intention to pursue
a claim of debt for any amount, how small
so ever, and without charge of crime in any shape.

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But when crime
imputed then came
tender mercy & caution

But when crime was imputed and
intended to be prosecuted for — crime to any amount,
howsoever large, then came tender mercy
and caution, by which a vast and complicated system
of machinery was set to work, and proportionable
uncertainty and chance of escape for criminality
produced. Now was set to work the Grand Jury
with the number of its members necessary for concurrence,
from thirteen to four and twenty, to take
cognizance of the sufficiency of the ground, on
which this power was applied for, and oath of secresy
taken by all its members lest by disclosure the
person whom, on hearing evidence, they had pronounced
guilty, should find means of escape; which
escape might on every occasion be produced without
the smallest difficulty or danger, on pretence of the tender
heartedness, by any one of a set of men, by whom, in
the capacity of petty Jury man, after difference of opinion,
no verdict could ever be given without
commission of perjury. Contrast this tenderness
for and security afforded to all criminals, with
the utter denial of all security, to whom no criminality
in any shape was so much as imputed
by an oppressing adversary
The

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Date_1	1826-09-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-12
Box	052	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	527	Info in main headings field	procedure code
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