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What would then be the condition of the court, should the Legislature prosecute a man, with an earnest wish to convict him?...
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “What would then be the condition of the court, should the Legislature prosecute a man, with an earnest wish to convict…”
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Beveridge raises concerns about the potential for legislative abuse in prosecuting individuals, questioning the fairness of such actions.
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That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
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