"We must not lay the flattering unction to our souls, that because by some _possibility there may not be guilt_, we can rightfully discharge as if there were no guilt." "It is sometimes urged against agreeing to indict, convict, or punish, that we have _conscientious scruples on the subject_;" "if sincere tenderness of conscience presses on the heart and mind against executing some of the laws, _it should lead us to decline office or resign_; not to neglect or disobey, while in office, what we have promised and sworn to perform;" [as if the juror swore to do injustice!] "or if a majority prove unaccommodating or inflexible against us, then it behooves those differing from them ... _to withdraw entirely from such a government, and emigrate_." [So the juror must not try to do justice at home, but seek it in exile.] "But in all such cases we must take special care not to indulge ourselves in considering an act as a sin which _is only disagreeable_, or the result of only some _prejudice or caprice_." "_The presumptions are that all laws_, sanctioned by such intelligent, numerous, and respectable members of society as compose our legislative bodies, _are constitutional_, and until pronounced otherwise by the proper tribunal, the judiciary, _it is perilous for jurors to disobey them_," [that is, to refuse to execute them] "and it is trifling with their solemn obligations to _disregard them in any way and on any occasion, from constitutional doubts_, unless of the clearest and strongest character."[115] [Footnote 115: The above extracts are from Judge Woodbury's charge to the Grand-Jury, in Circuit Court of United States, at Boston, taken from the _Evening Traveller_, copying the reprint of Boston Daily Advertiser, of October 25, 1850.]