JB/081/191/002

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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		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	25978
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