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and the drinker gone. This is but too common
a history among workmen who have not
like these served their first apprenticeship the in
the school of dissipation. The pow common
power of a creditor over his debtor is a in
a case like this no adequate security. Long before the writ is
out of the office the debtor is given invisible.
The power that will answer the purpose is nothing less than
that of the Master over his apprentice. A
with Jail says the proverb
pays no debts. A Panopticon manufactory
converted so far into a Jail will
pay debts. If you mean in such a case
you mean to give the creditor a real and
not a mere nominal security for his debt,
you must make him his own Sherriff and
his own Jailer. He must have You must give him the power
of pursuing and retaking the fugitive bird,
and replacing him in his nest. It is no small inconsiderable
power: but the eye of the public is your
security against abuse. A wounded debtor
flying from the cruelty of his Jailor-Creditor
was the made a revolution once in
Rome. True: but the Roman houses were
not
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