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these attributes of justice , do not end with arranging your conflicting rights and mine ; they give strength to the English people , duration to the English name ; they turn the animal courage of this people into moral and
religious courage , and present to the lowest of mankind plain reasons and strong motives why they should resist aggression from without , and bend themselves a living rampart round the land of their birth .
" There is another reason why every wise man is so scrupulously jealous of the character of English justice . It puts an end to civil dissension . What other countries obtain by bloodjr wars , is here obtained by the decisions of our own tribunals : unchristian
passions are laid to rest by these tribunals 5 brothers are brothers again ; the gospel resumes its empire , and because all confide in the presiding magistrate , and because a few plain men are allowed to decide upon their ovvn conscientious impression of facts ,
civil discord , years of convulsion , endless crimes are spared ; the storm is laid , and those who came in clamouring for revenge , go back together in peace from the hall of judgment to the loom and the plough , to the senate and the church .
The whole tone and tenour of public morals is affected by the state of supreme justice ; it extinguishes revenge , it communicates a spirit of purity and uprightness to inferior
magistrates ; it makes the great good , by taking away impunity ; it banishes fraud , obliquity and solicitation , and teaches men that the law is their right . Truth is its handmaid , freedom is its
child , peace is its companion ; safety walks in its steps , victory follows in its train : it is the brightest emanation of the gospel : it is the greatest attribute of God ; it is that centre round which human motives and passions turn : and Justice , sitting on high ,
sees Genius and Power , and Wealth and Birth , revolving round her throne ; and teaches their paths , and marks out their orbits , and warns with a lout ! voice , and rules with a strong
arm , and carries order and discipline into a world , which , but for her , would only be a wild waste of passions . Look what we are , and what just laws have done for us : —a land of piety and charity ; a land of churches and hos-
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pitals and altars ;—a nation of good Samaritans ;—a people of universal compassion . Ail lands , all seas , hare heard we are brave . We have just ; sheathed that sword which defended
the world ; we have just laid down that buckler which covered the nations of the earth . God blesses the soil with fertility ; English looms labour for every climate . All the waters of the globe are covered with English ships . We are softened by fine arts ,
civilized by humane literature , instnio ed by deep science ; and every people , as they break their feudal chains , look to the founders and fathers of freedom for examples which may animate , and rules which may guide . If ever a nation was happy—if ever a nation was
visibly blessed by God—if ever a nation was honoured abroad , and left at home under a Government ( which we can now conscientiousl y call a liberal Government ) to the full career of talent , industry and vigour , we are at this moment that people—and this is our happy lot . First , the gospel
has done it , and then justice has done it ; and he who thinks it his duty to labour that this happy condition of existence may remain , must guard the piety of these times , and he must watch over the spirit of justice which exists in these times . First , he must take care that the altars of God are
not polluted , that the Christian faith is retained in purity ai > d in perfection : and then turning to human affairs , let him strive for spotless , incorruptible honourinand lov
justice ;—praising , g - ing the just Judge , and abhorring , as the worst enemy of mankind , him who is placed there to ' Judge after the law , and who smite * contrary to the law . '"
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The Cornish Controversy * 261
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Sir , Penzame . ALTHOUGH many of your readers may be of opinion that they have already heard more than enough about the religious disputes of a small and remote town like this , and that
its " little gentry" have already been dragged into a much larger share of public notice than they have any claim to , J am yet obliged to solicit two columns more of your valuable space , and five minutes more of their no less
valuable tiine , for this trite subject . A small pamphlet which I was lately induced to publish , vvith a \ iew to cir *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/5/
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