text:  This very convenient scruple was started in "the court to sanction the purchase that if these so purchased slaves were set free they might _apostatize_!" Now who were the judges in such a court? Oh! the villany of the whole conclave!--yet was each individual perhaps of demure and sanctimonious manners to whom the moral eye of a people looked--villains all in the guise of goodness:-- "Vir bonus omne forum quem spectat et omne tribunal Quandocuncque Deos vel porco vel bove placat Jane Pater clare clare cum dixit Apollo Labra movet metuens audiri--Pulchra Laverna Da mihi fallere da justum sanctumque videri Noctem peccatis et fraudibus objice nubem