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REMONSTRANCE WITH GOGMAGOG . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir ,
Though 1 was extremely pleased both with S . A / s Plea for Candour , " and the writer " On the Impropriety of preaching Politics /* yet I cannot help thinking that neither of these gentlemen has noticed the most important part of the letter to which they replied . I am therefore emboldened to add a few remarks . Jam , Sir , as great a friend to freedom of inquiry on religi-
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that monarchs and judges are but fallible mortals , and that the mercy-seat of royalty and the sanctuary of justice have been polluted by a Tresilian * a Scraggs , and a Jefferies . " The Bench frowned at these words , but the intrepid Juror thus proceeded : cc Nay , my Lord , I am a poor man , but I am a free-born subject of the kingdom of Ireland- —a member of the constitution : nay , I am now higher , for I am the
represeiirtative thereof . I therefore claim for myself and fellow-jurors the liberty of speech ; and if lam refusea it here , I shall assume it before the people at the door of this court-house , and tell them why I deliver my mind there instead of in this place . " The Bench here resumed its dignified complacency , and the honest orator continued his address : " I say , my Lord , that
we have nothing to do with your private character ; we know you hercronly in that of judge , and as such we would respect you ; you know nothing of us but as njury , and in that star tion we look to you for reciprocal respect , because we know of no man , however high his titles or his rank , in whom the law or the constitution would warrant an unprovoked insult towards that tribunal in which they have vested the dearest and
most valuable privileges they possess . I before said , my Lord , that we are met here not individually ^ nor do we assume preeminence ; but in the sacred character of a jury , we should be wanting in reverence to the constitution itself ^ if we did not look for the respect of every man who regards it . We sit here * my Lord , sworn to give a verdict according to our consciences , and the best of our Judgments , on the evidence before us- WS
have , in our own minds acquitted our duty as honest men . If we have erred ^ we are answerable , not to your Lordship , nor tq that Bench , nor to the King who placed you there , but to a higher power—the king of kings /* \ The Bench was dumb , the bar was silent ; astonishment and applause murmured through the crowd s and the poor man was discharged !
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Remonstrance with Gogmagog . $$$
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/23/
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