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<p>8. Ask why this country <add>of so much vaunted <gap/> </add> of supposed good government<lb/> with its so merits and surely not altogether unjustly<lb/> vaunted constitution <del><gap/> for <gap/> been</del> exhibits the <lb/>the spectacle of an <gap/> in <gap/> — a commonwealth<lb/> of malefactors always subsisting and asking under<lb/> the uses of government under the protection of the law <lb/>and in spite of it?</p> | <p>8. Ask why this country <add>of so much vaunted <gap/> </add> of supposed good government<lb/> with its so merits and surely not altogether unjustly<lb/> vaunted constitution <del><gap/> for <gap/> been</del> exhibits the <lb/>the spectacle of an <gap/> in <gap/> — a commonwealth<lb/> of malefactors always subsisting and asking under<lb/> the uses of government under the protection of the law <lb/>and in spite of it?</p> | ||
<p>9. Ask why it is made a matter of praise and apprised<lb/> merit on the part of the servants of the Crown to<lb/> act in habitual opposition <del>of </del> to the declared sense of the<lb/> legislators? <add>why punishment is a perpetual talking </add> and why the fate of <del>a convict</del> <add>delinquent <add>convicts</add></add> <del>is a talking</del><lb/> depends not upon the public <add>visible</add> <gap/> | <p>9. Ask why it is made a matter of praise and apprised<lb/> merit on the part of the servants of the Crown to<lb/> act in habitual opposition <del>of </del> to the declared sense of the<lb/> legislators? <add>why punishment is a perpetual talking </add> and why the fate of <del>a convict</del> <add>delinquent <add>convicts</add></add> <del>is a talking</del><lb/> depends not upon the public <add>visible</add> <gap/> tenor of the law, but upon the <!-- sentence ends in the margin -->inscrutable will of<lb/> <del>some</del> this or that clerk in a <unclear>scramling</unclear> of Notes in a private Attorneys office. </p> | ||
<p>10. Ask why <del>the</del> a deluded nation sits contented amidst<lb/> this chaos, tranquil and self-satisfied amidst <add>usurping</add> <gap/> <lb/>ministers perjured jurymen, honestly <add>disobedient</add> | |||
16 Nov 1802
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5. Ask why among a supposed thinking people,it is
made a matter a task imposed upon of merit duty to humanity to be at perpetual
variance war with and common sense?
6. Ask why Lord North an the oracle of this
in all other topics has experienced nothing from them but disdain
from them but neglect when he has admonished them + + not to decide causes on grounds that have no connection with the merits not to set free the guilty on pretenses
that afford no indication of innocence.
7. Ask why a nation that in so many other points grounds is the
object of admiration and envy — is on this ground the
object at once of scorn and compassion — of scorn to its ill customs enemies
of pity to its friends.
8. Ask why this country of so much vaunted of supposed good government
with its so merits and surely not altogether unjustly
vaunted constitution for been exhibits the
the spectacle of an in — a commonwealth
of malefactors always subsisting and asking under
the uses of government under the protection of the law
and in spite of it?
9. Ask why it is made a matter of praise and apprised
merit on the part of the servants of the Crown to
act in habitual opposition of to the declared sense of the
legislators? why punishment is a perpetual talking and why the fate of a convict delinquent <add>convicts</add> is a talking
depends not upon the public visible tenor of the law, but upon the inscrutable will of
some this or that clerk in a scramling of Notes in a private Attorneys office.
10. Ask why the a deluded nation sits contented amidst
this chaos, tranquil and self-satisfied amidst usurping
ministers perjured jurymen, honestly disobedient
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