This act, therefore, has this distinguished evil in it, that it is the first partial suspension of the Habeas Corpus that has been made. The precedent, which is always of very great importance, is now established. For the first time a distinction is made among the people within this realm. Before this act, every man putting his foot on English ground, every stranger owing only a local and temporary allegiance, even negro slaves who had been sold in the colonies and under an act of Parliament, became as free as every other man who breathed the same air with them.
Far from removing the difficulties which impede the execution of so mischievous a project, I would heap new difficulties upon it, if it were in my power.

I could see no fair, justifiable expedience pleaded to favor this new suspension of the liberty of the subject.
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