JB/141/101/001

Click Here To Edit

7
B 3 Ch.2

The regular Political tribunals are subjected to a
regular process; they cannot pronounce a
decision without proof and these proofs are often
defective. The tribunal of public opinion, possesses
more liberty and more power. It is liable
to be unjust in its decisions, but they are never
delayed on that account, they can be reversed
at pleasure. Process Trial and Execution proceed
with equal steps without delay or necessity
for perusal. There are every where persons
ready to judge and to execute the Judgment.
This tribunal always inclines to the side of
severity: Its Judges are interested by their vanity
and their love of display in making them its decisions
severe: – the more severe they appear, the
more they flatter themselves with the possession of
the good esteem of others. They seem to think
that the spoliation of one character forms the
riches of another. Thus although the
punishments of the Moral Sanction are
indeterminate and for the most part when
estimated separately of little weight, yet
by the certainty of their operation, their frequent
recurrence and their accumulation, from the number
of those who have authority to inflict them they
possess a degree of force which cannot be despised
by any individual whatever may be his character
his condition or his power.

Identifier: | JB/141/101/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	101	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f2
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	munn & stephens 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	general t. p. thompson
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	48318
Box Contents