They are not in evidence, and I refuse to allow you to quote from such documents as part of your speech.
Mr.Foote: Well, gentlemen, I will now ask your attention very briefly to another branch of the subject.
The fact is, I was perfectly satisfied.

I had purposely kept the _War Cry_ till the last.

It naturally ended my list of citations, and his lordship's victory was entirely specious.
Those who may wish to read my address in its entirety will find it in "The Three Trials for Blasphemy." For those, however, who are not so curious or so painstaking, I give here the peroration only, to show what sentiments I appealed to in the breasts of the jury, and how far my defence was from boastfulness or servility: "Gentlemen,--I told you at the outset that you, are the last Court of Appeal on all questions affecting the liberty of the press and the right of free speech and Freethought.

When I say Freethought, I do not refer to specific doctrines that may pass under that name: I refer to the great right of Freethought, that Freethought which is neither so low as a cottage nor so lofty as a pyramid, but is like the soaring azure vault of heaven, which over-arches both with equal case.

I ask you to affirm the liberty of the press, to show by your verdict that you are prepared to give to others the same freedom that you claim for yourselves.