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The Felon’s Track

CHAPTER VI
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Neither the jury, nor the judges, nor any other man in this court, presumes to imagine that it is a criminal who stands in this dock." He was interrupted with the plaudits of the auditory; and again continued:-- "I have kept my word.

I have shown what the law is made of in Ireland.

I have shown that her majesty's government sustains itself in Ireland by packed juries, by partisan judges, by perjured sheriffs--" Here he was interrupted by Lefroy, who said, "the court could not sit there to hear him arraign the jurors of the country, the sheriffs of the country, the administration of justice, the tenure by which the crown of England holds that country.

The trial was over.

Everything the prisoner had to say previous to the judgment, the court was ready to hear, and did hear.


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