individually and collectively, to each other, and the community at large, that we will use our best endeavors to uphold the majesty of the laws, by affording our protection to private property and private right, wherever and however they may be assailed and by presenting to justice great as...
It was now the summer of 1820; our partner, yet a minor, returned to his father Benjamin, then of the Steuben Patriot; and we remained till autumn in the exercise of our honors as justice of the peace: conferred as a boon for our active support of DeWitt Clinton, that spring elected ...