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'lling upon this man to 

 take up ami" :mr] 



fftir: (lie |:md (,, hij., 



tiling In him : I x//y. thai In- mi^ht f.. (< railed f.,r 



drlnid (hi* l.-ind ; hecau*.-. however poor lie 



:>oor- 

 id if In- In- lialii- Med forth ' 



/u> 



This is what / 



ith reason, with justice, and with the law 

 of the him! : but. h 9 and \\i^ 



fMix/- ^; how can tli .int to ah 



tin- poor 



ihr lah..::' 



him to take ujt arm^. IM ri^k fthe 



land? Clrant that tin- poor-laws a ant that 



every necessitous 1 re- 



lirf from some parish or other; ?rant that the law 

 has-mosi ly provid.- rry man shall 



be protected against the effects of I . ! of cold ; 



grant tln-r. and then the law which compels the 

 man without house or land to ? and 



risk \\\< hi'*- in drfi'in'e of the country, is a perf 

 ju-t law: LIT. ; ie necessitous that le^al and 



m relief of whieli I Imvr hft-n *p-.. 

 the poor laws; and then tins military-service law be- 

 comes an act of a character such as I defy any pen 

 ur iniiLTur to describe. 



iother word upon the subject i 



tamlv in; -.butweli - when "stern 



necessity 11 has so often been for most fla- 



,r drpartui' !u- law of the land, that one 



ttOl help a-kin::. whether there were any greater 

 neeessity t.> jusni .\forhisdeedsofl817 



than th're would t>e to justify ' -larvins: man in tak- 

 ing a loaf ' A i> ur. ' jw/y, and he 

 got a Bill of Indemnity. And. >\\\\\\ a starvim: man 

 he handed, then, if he tak. 

 fromdyinir' When Sr ere before 

 liainent, the jiroposers and supporters of them n< 



