24 March 1808

Looking for the causes of non-justiciability, I found besides natural causes, irremediable and remediable, and factitious causes of the negative description operating to a vaste extent, a set of positive causes consisting in so many sorts of asylums established for the use /accommodation/ of dishonest men with other men's money in their hands, and for the profit of course, of their protectors and accomplished upon the bench: privileged places, and privileged terms out of /from/ which the hand /and fact/ of justice was shut out: privileged shapes, in /into/ which /the heard[?] man's /creditors// property being transformed, by the hand of the one ignoble or noble, swindler, under the eye of a protesting legislator and applauding /appraising/ Judge, become /becomes//is thereby made/ thereby committed more to the swindlers use, the Judge enjoying the noblest triumph of which the nature /station/ of the fee-fed Judge is capable, the triumph of jurisprudence over justice.