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What is the day on which Justice
ought to sleep? What the hour? That on
which Injustice does so too.

Look now to other departments:
see how things would go on if like delay
were there what if during one third of
the year, taxes being collected during the
other two thirds they were left uncollected?

What if, during one third of the
year, the Naval force being on duty, during
the other two thirds the seas were left open
to enemies and pirates?

What if, during one third
of the year, the Army being on duty: the
other two thirds, the Country were left undefended,
while enemies were at the
work of plunderage and devastation?

From internal enemies, for
want of Justice, the sufferings of the people
would not be so great as from external
enemies for want of defence. True; but
a suffering's not being the greatest possible
was no reason why men should be
subjected to it. How came it, that, in
those days, while men were guarded in
some sort against sufferings at the
hands of external, they were subjected
to it at the hands of internal doers? answer,
By the suffering produced by the
foreign adversaries these Judges would
themselves have been sufferers. By the suf-

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Identifier: | JB/081/191/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

081

Main Headings

petition for justice

Folio number

191

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c1 / c2

Penner

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

25978

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