The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-02-07

't SAN"l Nduoc ana therefore
VIII judge them charitably; ! will
Dlde my time; Twill wait until re-
Election comes I will submit to these
injuries a little while; in ten DAYS, in
twenty, or thirty, l will 90 to those
LADIES' l will say, Ladies, you were
right IN your ends, but you were wrong
IN your means; l admit have been
DONG wrong l have been violating
the law, but you have too now, then,
l propose that you pay ME the actual
loss which l sustained, and l agree
that there shall be nothing more of Il :;
ana VIII not hereafter violate your
sense Of right, and your feeling of Sc
curityi nor. send the silent but fatal
poison into your families, and we will
have a treaty Of peace.
would not this have been a wise
t!hihg to have done-a humane. char
table and respectable thiugP NV
Woru Tor it, he would have been met
by the entire community in the same
spirit that he would then have cyhib-
lted. But no, he must have q law
suit, and that right taway; and not a
lawsuit for his loss, but double dam
ages, and the disgrace Of the defend
ahlS--nothing less. So, gentlemen, it
Is lOr revenge, for retaliation, for pun
ishmentj not for the sake of public px-
ample, not for the sake of detrrrinq,
the spirit of vice and crime, but for the
sake Of gratifying a spirit of resent
meht, ana his desire to inflict injury.
THE DEMANDS OF THE LAW,
j have already adverted to the prin-
.clpie OF law and reason, on which it
is your duty to enter into the investi-
cation of the proof which is said to
sustain this charge, and it may all be
summed up in this: That whatever
the law, as laid down by his Honor.
requires you to do for his benefit, do
1t. Give it to him. But he has no
right to ask any favors give him the
law, but the law only in its strict
meaning, in its rigid application, in its
technical force for, gentlemen. that is
the spirit Of the law in such cases. In
an ordinary action brought by per-
son who has been injured by the ncgli-
gcnce Of another, the violation Of duty,
in respect to care, as, for Instance, if
IN crossing street, am run over by
sleigh, driven without proper care,
and l sue its proprietor for the mere
damages which will compensate ME
for my injuries, for paying doctors
bills, and for my loss Of time, ifI come
into Court, | have got to show, on my
part, that did nothing that was care
less, that contributed to the injury, NO
matter how slight, else l go out OF
Court ana pay the costs.
So, gentlemen. in Court Of equity
a plaintiff sets forth case Of great
wrong done him in his equitable
rights, some fraud committed upOn
him, some deceit practised, some ma
nipuIatiop Of technical law, by which
he may have been placed at a disad-
vantage, and he asks the remedy of the
Chancellor. He will say, you must 10
your part; he who seeks equity must
do equity; he that comes into a Court
.of equity must come in with clean
hands.
That is the expression Of the law
so ! say that the technical application,
the strict application, the rigid appli-
cation of the law in such case is the
very spirit of that justice which the
law insures. There is an old case on
this subject. know my friend, who
will reply, does not think it good law,
but ! have been so much accustomed
to hearing him say that the decisions
in the State Of Maine, and the de,
cisiOns in the Supreme Judicial Court
in the State of Massachusetts, which
did not suit him, and various other
decisions, were uonscnsical and alb.
surditics, and not worth moment,
consideration of any intelligent per.
son, that | am prepared to hear him
say the case l am about to cite is not
good law, and more particularly as il
was decided by Il woman; hut for thai
reason ] think it particularly worthy
Of being cited in woman's case.
TIE FOUND OF FLESH.
There was rich and generous MGR
chant in the ancient city of Venice
whose prosperity failed, and he necdrt
the money of a jew. The Jew ap
pcarCd to he very duslrOus to lend il {,
him-Would take no security. did no
ask for repayment, but simply, by wa,
of token, asked hir toput his name to
little bond, hyWhich i'm case he failed t,
pay-a contingency which it was no
possible could happcn-he agreed Il
give his lender a pound of flesh, near
est the heart. But the gales whirl
waited the merchants ships were ad
verse; the angry ocean buried all o
his wealth in The sea, and he was pov
erty-striCken man. His bond was out
and Shylock turned on him, and cite,
the law Of Nenice-where, gentlemen
there was no higher law than the law
Of trade, and the sacrtdest thing wa
a contract. The law of Venice wa
put in execution against him, by Por
tia, the Judge-a woman. She sal,
to the PLAINTIFF "Take the pound q
flesh; take it nearest the heart, bu
mind you, jew, take not a drop q
blood, for SO it is nominated in tn
bond" [Sensation.l And here, gen
tlemen, if the law gives it to him, lp
Linn and his associates, aud confede
rates, who have conspired together t
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