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1822 May 24 Economy etc. Hence
1822 May 24

Economy etc.

Hence comes all that boasting which in the mouth and pen the admirers

real or pretended of the English Constitution is so undefatigable. Through the

particular channel never is the matter of corruption received by the functionaries in

the superior grades of the department. Why? because through other channels they are

saturated with it, in so far as by the matter of greed man is capable of being

saturated - through other channels they are thus saturated with it, and through this

particular channel it is altogether out of their power to obtain it.

In the Anglo-American United States, the Members of the Judicial

Establishment if in any degree at all corrupt, are not so in any degree worth

considering in comparison of what is above But, though in a degree of enormity much

less than in England factitious misdecision, delay, expence and vexation, have place

in their system of substantive law and in their system of indictive law otherwise

called Law of Judicial Procedure, it being derived from that same corrupt and

corruptive English source. From all this corruption The profit whatsoever it be which

is thus derived, it is by the professional retinues of the law by such of the lawyer

tribe as are enlisted in the service of individual suitors that it is reaped: these

men the receivers of the corrupt profit, and the men belonging to the legislative

department in the several states as well as in the central state and by whose

connivance and inaction it is continued to be reaped, these are the men whom they

have for their accomplices

Of corruption in this form which with the addition of that in which

it has place in the case of Slaveholding and Slave buying and Slave holding is /may

be stated as [...?]/ the only form in which any thing to which the name of corruption

can with truth and justice be attributed has place in that political state, the

efficient cause is the predominant influence of the lawyer tribe in the legislatures

of these several states. In the Codification Proposal the baleful magnitude of this

sinister influence has on that as yet matchless seat of good government been brought

to view
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