Excerpt from A Charge to the Grand Jury, Upon the Importance of Maintaining the Supremacy of the Laws: With a Brief Sketch of the Character of William M. Richardson, Late Chief Justice of the Superior Court of New-Hampshire If their laws cannot in all cases be commended, the dispo sition of the people to abide by and enforce them may well be considered as worthy of all praise. Even the turbulent spirits who had fled from salutary restraint in the eastern hemisphere, and who brought with them habits wholly at variance with the civil and religious polity of the infant colony, had no reason to complain of restraint by unlawful violence, or of summary vengeance, taken without warrant of law, even for notorious misdeeds. With such regard for civil institutions, as well as religious ordinances, the colony, originating with a handful of emi grants, grew and prospered - A benignant Providence smiled upon them, and they became a numerous people. 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.