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An Honest And Peaceable People

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
April
Year
1848
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

To everv county in the United States wc would saj', road the following, and go ye and do likev3e. At tlic 6emi-annual term of t'ie Court of -Cotnmon Pleas for Barnstable county, Mass., though there was an ablejudge present in the form of Judge Ward, a suitable posse of oflicers, lieaded by tlie energetic sheriff, Hinkley ; the full complement of grand and petit jurors, without a missing man of the pannel ; a melojdious crier, ín the person of the prompt Mr. Blish to open the Cöurt ; a learned clergyman, Mr. Palfrey, to make the prayerin conformity io the pious usage of our ancestorg; and a bar full of lawyers well qualified to maintain either side of any cause, yet, after all, not a case civil or criminal, was found for the juries. In ix months not two men could be got to law with each olher, and nobody had committed a crime tluit reqnired a verdict of guilty or not guilty. The like cannot be said for any like number of forty thousand civilized pnople in the world. It is one of the good fruits of the principies planted by the Pilgrims who first landt'd at Provincetown on the end of good Cape Cod, L5 Tlie Boston Wliig denies peremptorily ! tlie statement that Mr. Charles F. Adams is about to publisii tlie writings of his I ed father. Mr. C. F. A. is the Editor of the Boston Whig. ï. The State Legislature of Texas adjourn!► on tho 20th ultimo, after a seasion of ninetynino davs. I