Kentucky Gazette

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, has decided that a Justice of the Peace cannot issue a warrant for a breach of the above laws against an offender who is not an inhabitant of the country where the offence is committed; and that justices of the peace cannot issue warrants, nor sheriff's serve them, on the Lord's Day, for any breaches of the above laws. Damages were awarded against a justice, a tything man, & a sheriff, upon the above principle. Upon this decision we congratulate the public. It has taken a formidable weapon from the hands of those petty tyrants, who are laboring to revive the reign of religious persecution—we trust we shall no longer see the sacredness of the Sabbath trespassed upon by these official harpies, who instead of spending the day as they ought, in worshiping their God, confessing their own manifold sins, and praying that they may be endued with a more christian temper, are riding or walking the public highway, "seeking whom they may devour," and gratifying, at once, their malice and their avarice, by plundering their fellow citizens and filling their own pockets. In some towns they have been stationed at every turn of the road, ready to dart out upon the traveller, like a spider from the corner of his web. We rejoice at every occurrence which checks this persecuting system.—Worcester Spy.