2 Aug 1812

Evidence Introd

Note?

Introd.

Ch. 26. Imprisonment for debt

' Errors of Abolitionists

 Abridge [...?] [...?] this

Of the falshood /Against the lie/, little or nothing. Written by lawyers these well meant and indeed really useful treatises are written of lawyers, and addressed though not to lawyers only,m yet principally, as being those on whom every thing [...?] of this sort will /is seen/ immediately[?] of real exclusivity is seen to depend, to lawyers. Talk to lawyers and in speaking of falshood, as practiced among lawyers speak of it as if there any thing wrong in it - as well condemn the slaughtering of cattle, in speaking to butchers talk to a butcher and speak to him against slaughtering of cattle /tell him it is a wrong thing to slaughter/.

Of the final cases to which the practice and its existence, as little: of the misery put by this oppression and this [...?] into the pockets of the inventors of the case gained to them labour saved to them, by refusing to hear a man make known his [...?], which suffering was thus inflicted on him severer because longer /of greater a duration//in so far as what is longer is severer/ than what is ever inflicted under the name of punishment.