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Show [ 16 ] f0 dangerous to freedom. They are marked. became as free as every other man who with too {trong lines to Hide into ufe. No plea or pretence of mere inconvenience or evil exmrzp/r!‘ (which mull in their nature be daily and ordié breathed the fame air with him. Now a line is drawn, which may be advanced further and further at pleafure, on the fame argument of nary incidents) can be admitted as a reafon for mere expedienee, on which it was firft de- fueh mighty operations. But the true danger But when men, fcribed. There is no equality among us; we are not fellow-citizens, if the mariner who lands on the qtiay does not ref't on as. firm legal ground, as the merchant who fits in his compting-honfe. Other laws may figure the Community, this tends to dal'lolve It. It def'troys quality, which is the eflence of community. 2'72 particular deferiptiarzs, mar/zed out 5y t/ye As things now Rand, every man in the Well: magflmz‘e bimfi/j; are delivered over by par- Indies, every one inhabitant of three unor‘fend- ing provinces on the continent, every perfon coming from the Rail Indies, every gentleman who lias travelled for his health or education, every mariner who has navigated the teas, 15, for no other offence, under a temporary pro- fcription. Let any of thele tufts (now become prethmptions of guilt) be proved againft him, and the bare fufpicion of the Crown puts him out of the law. It is even by no means clear is, when liberty is nibbled away, for expedif ents, and by parts. The Hebert: Corpus :16}: fuppofes (contrary to the genius of molt other laws) that the lawful magittrate may fee particular men with a malignant eye; and it provides for that identical care. liament to this pofiible malignity, it is not the Haéw: Corpm that is occafionally fufpended, but its fpirit that is miflaken, and its principle that is fubverted. Indeed nothing is fecurity to any individual but the common interef't of all. This act, therefore, has this diflinguifhed evil in it, that it is the 13rd partial fulpenfion of the Hdéeas Corpus which has been made. The precedent, which is always ofvery great impor-' to me, whether the negative proof does-not lie upon the perfon apprehended on fufpicwn, to tance, is now eftablifhed. the {ubverfion of all jufiice. For the firt't time a this realm. I have not debated againlt this bill in its progrefs through the Houfe; beeaufe 1t_would have been vain to oppofe, and impofiible to correét it. It is fome time finee Ihave been ance, even a negro flave, who had been told in the colonies and under an aft of parliament, became? clearlv convinced, that in the prefent [late of things, all oppofition to any meafures propeller; l l l 4 Ii. v Before this aét, every man put-s ting his foot on Englith ground, every {tranger owing only a local and temporary allegia- m "M' Mi «J at? 5:11.531": y; dif'tinétion is made among the people within |