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Excerpt from The Stay and the Staff Taken Away: A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Hon. William Prescott, Delivered in the Church on Church Green, December 15, 1844
Of an organized mob. One Of the gravest Offences that can be committed against the public weal, is to endeavour to bring the Judiciary into contempt, by lowering the standard Of their qualifications, or encroaching upon their independence. The men who attempt this know not how grievous a wrong they are doing to themselves and to their children, as well as to their neighbours and fellow-citizens. There is no class Of persons in a State Whose labors are more arduous, whose services are more valuable, and whose in¿uence is more salutary, than the Judges'. When they are driven from the Bench by.
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