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The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Judge Parker 's charge to the Grand Jury of Frederick county, Va. (search)
Judge Parker's charge to the Grand Jury of Frederick county, Va.
The following is the main portion of Judge Richard Parker's charge to the Grand Jury of Frederick county, to which allusion was made yesterday:
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury:--We meet together at a most unfavorable time for the calm and proper discharge of our duties.--War, with its attendant evils, is raging along our borders, and seems each day to be approaching nearer and nearer to our homes and firesides.
There is not one of us who can avoid partaking of the excitement which such a condition of affairs has aroused; and yet we must be careful, lest under its influence we needlessly trample down some great safe-guard of our liberties, or neglect duties imposed upon us, or perform them in a careless or inefficient manner.
Times of war have their peculiar dangers, as well as their peculiar obligations.
Whilst at such periods every good citizen will rally to the defence of his State, and be zealous to guar