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~i10uili be con,- ~ved to a lazaretto bv an order of
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qU1rantine, with wluever impatience he might desire
his enlargement, and though he saw a guard
placed at the d-t1or to oppose his escape, or eveft
ready to destroy his life if he attempted it, would
hardly accuse government of encroaching upon his
ci viI treedonl; na)r, nligtlt, perhaps, be all the whi!e
,:ongratulating himself tllat he had at length set his .
foot again in a land cf Ii bert),. • 1'he nlanifest expediency
of the mea~lire not only ju~tifies it, but rec··
()nci!es tI1e most odiOGS confinement with the perfect
possession, and the loftiest notions of civil liberty.
Alld if this be true of the coercion of a prison, that
it is compatible ,,,"ith a state of ci~~il free-d(Jm, it cannot
\vith reaS!)[l be disputed of those mo~·e moderate constraints
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