As portions of the general subject of proscription, mention may be properly made, in this place, of two

tagooualy read, from those Minutes, what those distinguished lawyers were capable of doing, judicially, when they were within closed and closely guarded doors ; what they, then, regarded as offences before the law ; the methods which they adopted, in their inquisitorial process ; and what their judgments were and what penalties they inflicted..

With these instances of the capabilities of those two men before us we have been onabled to understand, more clearly than ever before some of actions of the Chief Justice and of the Ambassador which previously, had needed additional explanation.

1 List of Prisoners in the Oily Hull, New York, July 12, 1776, and List of

Pi-honers in the New Goal, among the papers of the Committee

Historical Mannseripbi, etc. : Mim'elhineons I'ojiers, xxxiv., 490.

2 It will be remembered that the opinions of its victims, on questions of Law, of Legislation, and of Political Economy, were regarded as matters of offence, even where no net which was obnoxious had beon charged against them ; and that, for those opinions, only, in many instances, those victims were subjected to punishment. It will be remembered, also, that the leaders of the Rebellion assumed the right of determining when and in what manner religious services Bhould be conducted by tho Churches, in the Colonies, and those for whom Churches and individuals should and should not offer their prayers to Almighty God. In Connecticut, every Episcopalian Church, except one, was closed, because tho Clergy would not submit to the requirements concerning their prayers to God; and in that single exception, the courageous preacher maintained his relations with bis Master, notwithstanding the opposition ; and the cowards did not seriously disturb him.