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Courts why open
hidden from the public eye: or though known to
some it may be still obscure, because interesting
to few. But the Judge is a man in honor:
he has a rich fund of reputation to preserve and to improve.
But Let the doors Courts be open and their transactions public, then and whatever he
does he does it in the face of all mankind. Such
as it appears to one such it appears to all men
To none can it be unknown; to none can it be uninteresting.
Would he wish to prevaricate —
such thoughts wishes are scattered as soon as formed.
He sees his punishment ready prepared in the eye
of a an indignant surrounding audience. One instant produces
the effect: the next inflicts the punishment.
But shut up the doors it will be said, will not there
not be an appeal: and are not the Judges his
superiors in the same line, men of state more experience
than of still higher honour, better Judges of his conduct
than a miscellaneous and chance-related
multitude? Yes provided he has superiors: provided
every syllable that falls from the parties their advocates
agents, their witnesses, his fellow judges, and
himself be transmitted without the alteration,
omission or addition of a little to the those superiors Court above: provided
that along with the secretary who records & transmits the dead
letter
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