Page:Statement of facts relating to the trespass on the printing press in the possession of Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie, in June, 1826.djvu/18

 world, had no connection with any Public measure; the misfortunes, the poverty, the former occupations, the personal apearance of individuals, were all made alike the objects of unfeeling and impious abuse, regardless of the pain which the wanton calumny might bring to the bosoms of relations and friends. To make the insolence the more intolerable, no pains were taken to avoid mention of names; on the contrary, they were given at full length—no blanks—no asterisks—all set down plainly, to amuse the malice of the world, and to insure the whole mass of unmanly scandal being as fully understood and applied abroad, as it might otherwise only have been among ourselves.

I cannot reconcile it to myself to be the means of giving a second publication to these horrid papers, which, I am sure, it has been the endeavor of all good men to forget; and, therefore, I will not, for the sake of justifying my own conduct the more plainly, pollute the public eye, with placing before them any part of these productions, which no language can describe. But, I call upon any man who may have preserved a file of the Colonial Advocate, to turn to the number published on the 18th May, 1826, as well as to those immediately preceding and following It, and then to inform me, if he can, in what Country, and at what time, the feelings of a whole Society were ever so barberouslybarbarously [sic] and cruelly outraged, as they were by this man, whom no one had injured—whom, indeed, many of those whom he thus insulted, did not know by sight, and of whose existence even—it is very probable—some of the persons he abused were unconscious.

Need I say what must have been the feelings of those thus injured, and what ought to have been the feelings of all mankind, against the indvidual who, for the chance of making a