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1820
So far as concerns individuals, all this being but mere
supposition, let us view close with this another supposition, which, to every
generous and feeling mind will be by a so much the more
acceptable supposition. one. Let us suppose tThe conduct of
the functionary be he who he may, be supposed conformable to fully <add> is now in perfect conformity with his profession:
let it it be supposed it be is without spot. immaculative How irksome must it
not then be to him, to be all along acting under a system, , under which
while he is acting no man he can not, to by any no
discerning mind, be regarded as otherwise than, more or less corrupt!
How extrem <add>odious to every man intolerable to a man of real probity will To every man
of real probity how odious will not every such situation
how odious will not the system by which all honest
men are placed in it ! what will not how anxious
will be his anxiety he not be to embrace every chance for the substituting
a pure system to this one system and with all
possible promptitude to this flagrant foul technical system, a pure and
rational one!
Be it under a under a system, by which he is placed in such an so degrading
a situation: how odious must it not be as his ? how
anxious must he not be to embrace, with the utmost promptitude every chance that
presents itself for at every the smallest chance for
seeing substituted. for seeing substituted to this foul and technical
system of procedure a pure and rational one? I have said foul and
technical. But, foul and technical when applied to a system of judicial procedure will one day be universally
understood to be synonymous terms: the two terms
technical is said of it, foul will not need to be added to make be
put aside as superfluous.
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