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4489. LAW, Cruel French.—

Nor should
we wonder at * * *[the] pressure[for
a fixed constitution in 1788-9] when we consider
the monstrous abuses of power under
which they[the French] people were ground
to powder; when we pass in review the * * * cruelty of the criminal code.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 86. Ford ed., i, 118.
(1821)