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jggff few ; arid * i * cagttifceti by maTiy acts < rf p afl * amet * tr ~ -P . 12 . i © hacMs ; passage Mr . Dodso ? rev masks ; <^ the quefciion ta ochiri ^ sf the legality > of pressing mariners fair the ^ fec servicev hfa < point of the greatest Importance atfd wise arid good
iUeh still emertadrt different sentiments art ihri subject . " I catihot help regtetttttg that sa exfcertlerrt a man as Mr . Dodson , whom I describe from personal knowledge , shouldhave been eonterit'to trdat so mildly this moral ettorrrtity . One who has been taught to consider himself as a free citizen of
a ftee" country , whatever be his outward' condition , is yet dragged from his borne a& a criminal ^ Without the pretence of any crime , because he once pursued ah industrious life as a m&fiiter , and in ^ te ' ail of having acquired ptfopejfty is still dependantxm
his personal labour for his own , and probably , a famil y ^ support ; for a regtdatitig officer will scarcely venture ft * detain a irian- of property , should such arl one be accidentally kidnapped by & > pres 6 g&ng ~ Such then is the man convicted only of poverty whose case
a benevolent Christian , writing more Mkc a laioyer than a gospeller , can treat as a question of mere legal uncerfidnty , oti , each side of which wisdom 4 nd virfqe jnighl be equally divided . SJn Efodspn had the honour to be a Heretic , and , in the contemplation * iL law , . Was-. liable \ to pun ish men t . What would he have said to a
commentator on penal siatntes , who had cooil y written that ^ thei | uestion touching the prosecution qf ^ those who intpu&n the established creed * , vis a point of the greatest- ' ¦ importance , and wise and g&Od ' mefr still 'entertain differeiTt sentiments on the subject /'
-Every one has read Franklin ' s Notes cm Judge Foster ' s Argument , atdfAostl believe have , admired the y ^ rved satire they convey on the "Ja&latcrs of ( forms and precedents . " But the unjust principle which supports the practice of impressing 9 and its Hcquentmela ^ cshoiy consaqtaewces , can scarcely ber represented with inore
MWw ^ riid , propriety than in iheifollow ^ ^ gP ^ ssate hom a / <* Reply , to Mr . * "jfea M « invet ^ twe against Mn . hooper ^ i Walt ^ in th * Hoose -of J ^ ww « ^ tfPv -April 3 Oj < i ? 9 e / Mby Mav J ^ Ur jftH ^ Yiy of Miairjofa | ester , ai H 8 J 5 i £ ibtetfr'a 3 an acttte ttitrtaphy-
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sicianr ^ and now for many yea ** a jtidge m the Untied Sidtest * liullls Mepkf , the ^ rar is carried with no sm « l success , into the enemy ' s cotrmr ^ Mr . Burfee * s Invective liavingj "been utterred in a debate- on Parliamentary reform , Mr . Cboper shews , ia ^ vaTioui instances , " how little the interests * £
the poor are taken care of * steak ho ^ t necessary it is that the voiee of th * poor man should be heard ^ rith a ^ tt eir * tton and respect in tbe » House ^ of Commons . " He then adds , ^ A
still more flagrant instance of ertaeh ^ and injustice towards the poor , * is . the practice of impressing . The labour of the poor man constitutes the whole of his wealth , and " his domes t id
connexions almost the whole of his happiness . But on a sudden under the dubious authority of a press warrant , he Is cut off from his peaceful habitation and domestic society , and forcibly dragged on board the floating prison of a tender : he is compelled to labour in the dreadful service of murdering his fellow-creatures at the command
of his superiors , and paid such scanty wages , not as he can earn or deservesy but as the niggardly system of government finance thinks fit to allow . His famil y meanwhile , who look up to him for comfort and subsistence , ignorant of his misfortune , are anxiouslv
expecting his wonted return ; perhaps their homely repast for the night depended on his earnings for the day - bot his usual hour of return to his family is gone by , each passing footstep , eac < h noise of distant similarity , is eagerly listened to in vain . Houfe
still draws out the lengthened evening till a sleepless ni ^ ht of lamentation and despair succeeds the dreary iraelaii ^ choly hours of successive disappointment and fruitless expectation /* - After reading this description , which must have bfeten ofterf realized .
what a sound of unmeaning rant op rather of cruel motfkery is the following burst of oratory by Lord ^ Chatham on the equal 'liberty * < hj € * y «« t in England ? " Every Enghshman ' s house is his castle . Not that- >\ t is sfurnolinded by Walls arid * battlements , it ma ^ be only a atra ^ r buih phed . All the winds of heave ft * may whistle
through it , every element of . r ^ aturd rhay enter it , but the king * cannot , the ki tig dare no f . " - -. ; ^ r IGNCKBUrs .
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JHfy . Dods&n on Impressing Seatk&i . * * GQ $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1816, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2457/page/29/
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