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There were henceforth separate judicial commissions for exactions; for murder, including arson and perjury; for bribery at elections; for high treason and any dishonour done to the Roman name; for the most heinous cases of fraud the forging of wills and of money; for adultery; for the most heinous violations of honour, particularly for injuries to the person and disturbance of the domestic peace; perhaps also for embezzlement of public moneys, for usury and other crimes; and at least the greater number of these courts were either found in existence or called into life by Sulla, and were provided by him with special ordinances setting forth the crime and form of criminal procedure.
Against the bill which practically excluded the Chinamen from the United States, in defiance of the spirit and letter of the Burlingame treaty, Carleton spoke vigorously, at the meeting held in Tremont Temple, in Boston, to protest against the infamous Exclusion bill, which committed the nation to perjury.
"'Quid leges sine moribus. The whole moral principle of a nation is contaminated by the legislative authorization and judicial sanction of a practice dishonest in itself, which necessarily includes not merely a permission, but a stimulant, to perjury.
Ellwood, at this time, rendered good service to his friends, by exposing the true character of these wretches, and bringing them to justice for theft, perjury, and other misdemeanors. The Baptists fell upon the Quakers, with pamphlet and sermon; the latter replied in the same way.
Bar Shalmon turned deadly pale and would have fallen had not his friends caught him. "Take thy punishment for all thy sins," cried the princess, haughtily, "for thy broken vows and thy false promises thy perjury to thy God, to thy father, to my father and to me." As she spoke Bar Shalmon fell dead at her feet.
Mr. Peel, a member of the British parliament, delivered an unfeeling speech relative to Ireland, in which he speaks of their untameable ferocity, and systematic guilt, supported by perjury, related this most affecting anecdote, which was to shew the feeling of abhorrence entertained against those who gave evidence against those who were tried for resisting a government they detested.
Of course, there is a difference in position between a miscreant whom you suspect of an attempt at perjury and the father of the girl you love, whose consent to the match you wish to obtain, but Sam was in no mood for these nice distinctions. He only knew that lawyers told people to be very careful, so he told Mr. Bennett to be very careful. "What do you mean, be very careful?" said Mr. Bennett.
"No, but father can say the word that will save us all. He must swear he made a mistake that he did sign those checks for the amounts drawn from the bank. That will paralyze Ormsby, and leave him powerless." "Lies! lies! we are wallowing in lies!" groaned the rector. "When a lie can hurt no one, and can avert a terrible calamity, perjury can be no sin. God knows I have been punished enough."
And the policemen are carelessly sublime, well knowing that magistrates, jails, and the very Home Secretary on his throne yes, and a whole system of conspiracy and perjury and brutality are at their beck in case of need.
Here, then, we have twenty-three out of our thirty-nine fathers "who framed the government under which we live," who have, upon their official responsibility and their corporal oaths, acted upon the very question which the text affirms they "understood just as well, and even better, than we do now"; and twenty-one of them a clear majority of the whole "thirty-nine" so acting upon it as to make them guilty of gross political impropriety and willful perjury if, in their understanding, any proper division between local and Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution they had made themselves, and sworn to support, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the Federal territories.
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