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Show [ I4 ] [ 15 ] by a trial of one fort of hoflility, under the qualification, ini'tead of taking out the (ting, does in my humble opinion fl‘iarpen and enve- name of piracy, and of another by the name of treafon, and executing the aft of Henry the eighth according to a new and unconfiitutional interpretation, I have thought evil and dangerous, even though the inflruments of effecting fuch purpofes had been merely of a neutral quality. nom it to a greater degree. Liberty, ifI un- derl'tand it at all, is a general principle, and the clear right of all the fubjeé'cs Within the realm, or of none. Partial freedom feems to me a mofi‘ invidious mode of flavery. But, unfortu- na ,ely, it is the kind of flavery the molt eafily admitted in times of civil difcord. But it really appears to me, that the means For parties which this afl‘ employs are, at leai'r, as execp- are but too apt to forget their own future fafety in their defire of facrificing their ene- tionable as the end. Permit me to open my- felf a little upon this fubjeét, becaufe it is of mies. People without much difficulty admit the entrance of that injui'tice of which they importance to me, when I am obliged to {ob mit to the power without acquiefeing in the reafon of an aét of legiflature, that I lhould juflify my dilient, by fuch arguments as may he iiippofed to have weight with a fober man. The main operative regulation of the aél; is to llifiiend the common law, and the flatute Hat/36¢: Gwyn/r, (the lble fecurities either for liberty orjuliice) with regard to all thofe who have been out of the realm or on the high teas, within a given time. The refi of the people, as i underiiand, are to continue as they ilood before. are not to be the immediate victims. In times ofhigh proceeding, it is never the faction of the predominant power that is in danger; for no tyranny chafiiies its own infirnments. It is the obnoxious and the fufpeéted who want the proteé'tion of law; and there is nothing to bridle the partial violence of {tare fadtioris, but this great, fieady, uniform principle; " that " whenever an aé'c is made for a cellation " of law and juitice, the whole people " {hould be univerfally fubjeéted to the fame " fufpenfion of their franchifes." The alarm of fuch a proceeding would then be univerfal. It would operate as a fort of call ojtbe with". the Hollies Carper zit; and the limiting qualifi» 'a/g/o/ute mafia; of this total eclipie of liberty. They would more carefully advert to every renewal, and more powerfully refill it. Thcfe great determined meafures are not commonlry o I .. 7"! Wit [~1‘T' .i ,i o\ ,: o It would become every man's immediate and infiant concern to be made. very fenfible of 2/5: 5. . "saggy-rm W I confefi, gentlemen, that this appears to me, as bad in the principie, and far Worfe in its cenfsqnence, than an univerlal fufpenfion |