I am afraid, that, from the habits acquired by moving within a circumscribed sphere, we may be induced rather to endeavor at forcing Nature into that municipal circle than to enlarge the circle of national justice to the necessities of the empire we have obtained.
This is the only thing which does create any doubt or difficulty in the minds of sober people.

But there are those who will not judge so equitably.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

If, from any appearance of chicane in the court, justice should fail, all men will say, better there were no tribunals at all.

In my humble opinion, it would be better a thousand times to give all complainants the short answer the Dey of Algiers gave a British ambassador, representing certain grievances suffered by the British merchants,--"My friend," (as the story is related by Dr.Shaw,) "do not you know that my subjects are a band of robbers, and that I am their captain ?"--better it would be a thousand times, and a thousand thousand times more manly, than an hypocritical process, which, under a pretended reverence to punctilious ceremonies and observances of law, abandons mankind without help and resource to all the desolating consequences of arbitrary power.