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county magistrates, soldiers, and gentlemen, — 

 men wlio would risk death at tlio cannon's moutli, 

 — Avill shrink from tlioir duty to some extent, 

 rather than let vulo-ar thieves or low attornevs 

 charge them with pa>rtiality, groundless and 

 uncalled-for as such a charge may be. A 

 ■public Jadije^ paid to administer the laiv, is not 

 thus hampered. He has a task to perform com- 

 pletely indej^endent of any local bias of any 

 sort or description, and he will fearlessly, and 

 according to the exact letter of the law, do his 

 duty. The time 'will come when the petty juris- 

 diction will be thus provided for, and a very 

 great boon it will be to the community, and 

 immense in its effects on the suppression of crime. 



