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The Remedy for Duelling; A Sermon, Delivered Before the Presbytery of Long-Island, at the Opening of Their Session, at Aquebogue, April 16, 1806

The Remedy for Duelling; A Sermon, Delivered Before the Presbytery of Long-Island, at the Opening of Their Session, at Aquebogue, April 16, 1806


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and to scrutinize the character of candidates for office; and as the private moral character of a man is the truest index, it becomes them to he particular on this point. But who will speak on this subject? Who will publish, when the duellist stands before him with pistol at the breast ? If a few, duellists themselves and mad with ambition, will brave the danger, how many are there who will not ? And what aggravates the restraint, the more unprincipled and vile the man, and the greater the need of speaking, the greater the danger of unveiling his enormity; while bent upon promotion, and desperate in his course, he is prepared to eal in death the lip that shall publish his infamy. What should we think of a law that forbade to publish the immo- falities of candidates for office?which made death the penalty of transgression, and which produced annually as many deaths as this nefarious system of duelling ? We should not endure it a moment. If Congress were to sane- lion by a law the maxims of duelling, it would produce a revolution. And will you bear encroachments upon liberty from lawless individuals which you would not bear a mo ment from the government itself? Would you spurn fronj your confidence legislators who should make such laws; and will you, by your votes, clothe with legislative power, individuals who, in contempt of law, do the same thing? Nor let any imagine that the influence of this engine of despotism is small; it is powerful already, and is every year becoming more so, as duelling increases; and God only knows where its influence will end. The actual encroachments of Britain, when we first began to resist them, were not one half so alarming as the encroachments of duellists. To have been parallel she must have executed wantonly, without judge or jury, as many as h...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217607544
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 18
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217607543
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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