Excerpt from The Stay and the Staff Taken Away: A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Hon. William Prescott, Delivered in the Church on Church Green, December 15, 1844 Of an organized mob. One Of the gravest Offences that can be committed against the public weal, is to endeavour to bring the Judiciary into contempt, by lowering the standard Of their qualifications, or encroaching upon their independence. The men who attempt this know not how grievous a wrong they are doing to themselves and to their children, as well as to their neighbours and fellow-citizens. There is no class Of persons in a State Whose labors are more arduous, whose services are more valuable, and whose influence is more salutary, than the Judges'. When they are driven from the Bench by. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.