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Indirect
Raising Evidence
performed by the only person one person of all others who had it in his
power: while the former was to be shifted off
upon ma man of straw or what came to the
same thing some confidential friend who was
set up by the former. latter. Who then was to be
paid for giving information? a man who of
himself his own knowledge knew nothing about the matter:
a man who but for the witness would have
had none to give. Who was to expected to give
evidence? a man, from whom whom the judge having
taken from him that reward which the legislature thought
fit to give him, had no motive, if matters
were as they appeared to be, to take upon him
that trouble any such trouble upon his hands.
Upon the original plan there it was a necessary
While the informer was what his name imports him to be, a the witness there was
a necessity a necessary measure to offer the reward for informing to any one
who would earn it: because for you must get your
witnesses where you can. Now that he is a mere
prosecutor the measure is not only an unnecessary comparatively speaking
but a very pernicious,
one: it is a very bad succedaneum to the
institution of a partie publique, an officer whose
business
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