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Why should he have been afraid to add a distinct injunction that
“the magistrate shall keep the delinquent in custody until he shall
have put in his sureties”? Is not that quite fair? I am sure you will
all say yes. Would it have been contrary to any statute ? No, indeed; it would
have been the only clause that does conform to the statutes. Then what was his
reason? There is no discoverable reason except this,—that his purpose
was not to help but to obstruct the punishment of criminals condemned by you.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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