Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-06-30

ithed that there will be exhibited in any indivi
dual proceeding which may emauate from
your body during the time you are exercilirg
The duty Of grand and fpeci4l Jurors, any mat
TER which will net bear the tef of the mott
fcrutnous inveltigation and hcw to yonr Eel
low citizens and the world, that the pureR and
mott unde6led individual impartiality marks
every ReP YOU may take.
The Purpoles for which the laws Of your
country call you together at every criGs like
me prefent, are momentous indeed 70 the re-
public. Firh, you are 70 give all pofole fup-
port to the judicial authority, Of which you { as
body are one Of the principal component
parts lecondly, 70 enquire and make true pre-
lentment OF al infections of the law; and
thirdly 10 decide il cafes of tn. lat refort as
fpecial jurors, between parties contenjing for
what they in mott cafes deem their Indispensable
rights. L. exerciling this right and performing
the duty incumbent on you, as gooit citizens,
the court andyour couOtry expect from you the
mott rigid attention and as you value your
own peace and fecurity ineilimable, it will re-
quire Spartan, or which i. fynonimous, Amer
can virtue and integrity. to decide civil cafes
which may be fgbmitted to you as fpccial it,
rors aud the eyes of Angus in learchjng after
and holding up TO pubcsview fuch characters
as may be abandoned enough to difturb the
harmony and good order Of fociety While you
are dicharging your duty as the grand inquef
Of the county.
As you are n fome degree the immediate
Representatives Of the people ina Judicial capa.
city any, even the mott trivial want Of reiped
exhibited by any citizen towards yourftlyes rs
body, or as individuals, while exerci(ng the
| fun6tiors you are about 10 perform, is a marx
| ed contempt Of The law, and an infult on tie
jeay of the PEG, le, from whom all govern.
inert flows; When | make uie of the term
| people would not be underltood to mean thole
who ahociate together for the purPofes Of Gre
| ating iorder, ard repTelening the government
| Of our own choice as dead letter dcfru alive
OF their nterels, and carried into exacut on for
the file purpofes OF tyranny and oppreaion.-
Thofe who come under this dsfcriprion, are
| the adters of government, who, after being
fofered in its bolom and receiving under its
benign inhueace genial warmth and Greng,h
lufficient to efetf their bAle Purp0(es, begin 10
gnaw, without remorfe, on the vitals Of that
body co porate which has RATED them from the
Iethargic Rate into one Of activity and e1erton
In government Ike ours, which is fuppoled
| TO contain in it all that is excellent ia others,
| without their defects, we have a right TO hope
that the administration of il will be pure, up.
right and impartial. and if we are not diap-
pointed in this expectation, we can with fafety
call ourf-lves as happy as the Gate of things in
this tranGtory word Will admit.
The old monarchy under whole Influence we
drew our fra breath, had at one time It's R1r
chamber, eonf,RaiUs freo(0as, judicial dependence
Hpan executive pO1er, e0rrYbt elections and mock
bretentatiUe5 Thank to the great dilpofer Of
events, VIC are free from fuch ignominious
ih4ckles We can with propriety, boat of a
fcund reprcfenta'i ION, Of elections void of undue
fluence, Of legilItve, judicial, and executive
inie pendence Of }atutes defining unequivo-
caly the crimes which may be committed, and
the punilhments attached TO each. In luch
government, what is there eGential but due
naturalization Of II, to fecure US in our perfons,
and in the enjoyment Of property and rsputa-
ton
Error, being in great or iels degree the
companion and conttant attendant on human
tranlaetions, It behoves us TO correct rather than
torture it into corruption.-There are lome
who view the affairs Of government through
fuch hazy medium, thar al things 60 wrong
Others there arc who think that 1t IS proper, ami
the offence Of public duty, TO fuhmit to oPPref
| Gon 70 long as IFS weight can be futained and
third claf, who examine public proceedings
| with an eye Of lcrutiny compare the conduit
of lhole in office with The powers delegated to
them by the contribution and when they diff
covsr errors, lpeak Of them with manly firm
nels, bur at the fame time with refpea.
Let it be our duty we'll to confder under
which Of thefe claGes it is met eligible to rank
ourfelyes fit is the fra, il will di(clofe an
ignorance, too grofs to be acknowledged if
| the fecond, We have more than an equa chance
Of being Rigmatize1 as puGilanimous the third
| will f-cure 10 Us domettic and national happi-
nefs, and place our character as nation, in a
| Gtua,ion truly engiable. It's however, not
| enough, that we ihould think this at line of
cnndu4 The mott prnner 10 be adonted but