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as it professes, any healing qualities or because it is calculated to allay doubts, which are supposed to exists or that it will be efficacious for any useful purposes.

It looks to other objects to effected but of which we may not be here permitted to speak.

It establishes a precedent pregnant with evils enumerable and mischiefs which cannot be too deeply deprecated by evert virtuous citizen. It inflicts as we believe a wound on the character and honor of the State which years will not heal.

From the example thus set Demagogues who may hereafter happen to have an ascendancy in our Legislature may take occasion thro a general Law, thrust into our Statute book to collect and condense their political grievances and thro obloquy and contempt on their predecessors and thus our statute book will become to a certain extent a common sewer through which the party effusions of the day will be transmitted down to posterity

Carleton Dole James Drummond Samuel Eastman Moises Fuller Syms Gardner Asher Hinds Elijah Morse I Kingsbury Elisha Harding