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1821. May 4.

First Lines

Procedure

Judicial vexation

1. Disorder.

2. Evil the second. Look now to the supposed case in which the vexation thus applied is apllied in pursuance of a connected scheme entered into by a number of individuals asociated for the purpose. Suppose again the remedy out of the question, evil in two shapes in particular not to speak of others - evil in each shape to an indefinite amount. In the first place, a total suspension of all the functions of Government by law suits non penal or even penal occupying and engrossing the whole time of the respective functionaries. Evil 2. covering with reproach and burying in disrepute the system of procedure out of which evils thus flagrant will have been seen to grow.

Then would come the exultation of the corruptionists of all casses, and in paticular of that class in which in all his shapes, and in particular in that in which it is by Law the engine called Lawyercraft that the fruits of corruption are reaped by him. See here, (would be his cry), see here the fruits, the genuine the necessary fruits, of your undilatory, unvexatious, unexpensive system of procedure.