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If our state constitution oppose objections to an im- 

 mediate abolition ; then, extend the gaol-limits to the 

 boundjof each county. If you dare not kill the law, 

 you may take away its life, A practice like this, in 

 principle, has been sanctioned, for thirty years, by the 

 congress of the United states ; in repealing the law, es- 

 tablishing the court ; when they could not directly re- 

 move the judge. The same thing has been repeatedly 

 done here, in the successive statutes, establishing new 

 courts of Common Pleas, and sessions : and repealing 

 the old laws. 



There ought to be no delay in this matter. The ap 

 peal is distinctly made to husbandmen. 



Fourthly, But the husbandman is called to the ex- 

 ercise of higher and more important duties : of a moral 

 and religious character. 



Religion and morality, though as distinct in their na- 

 ture, as the colours of the rainbow ; like them are as- 

 similated, and often blended together. I speak of them 

 unitedly, without stopping to mark their distinction. 

 On these depend all our security of property, charac- 

 ter, and life. Without their unseen, and controlling influ- 

 ence, the world would become what bad men would 

 have it, a scene of violence and crime. Washington 

 once said : " Of all the dispositions, that lead to political 

 prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable." 

 The influence of these should be diflused, every where, 

 like the air we breathe ; directing, purijying, and con- 

 troling. To these the civil power, especially in this Re- 

 public, owes all its strength, and efliciency. These, 

 therefore, the husbandman will cherish ; as a duty to 

 himself, his family, his country, and his God. Educa- 

 tion, so desirable under other circumstances, without these. 



