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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER III
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That organ has been an English press, and that tribunal an English jury.

But in those wretched islands we see a press more hostile to truth than any censor, and juries more insensible to justice than any Star Chamber.

In those islands alone is exemplified the full meaning of the most tremendous of the curses denounced against the apostate Hebrews, 'I will curse your blessings.' We can prove this assertion out of the mouth of our adversaries.

We remember, and God Almighty forbid that we ever should forget, how, at the trial of Mr.Smith, hatred regulated every proceeding, was substituted for every law, and allowed its victim no sanctuary in the house of mourning, no refuge in the very grave.

Against the members of that court-martial the country has pronounced its verdict.


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