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of the Slave-owning majority. If he did not starve for want
of congenial readers, woe to him if he should come before an infuriated
Jury of Overseers and Slave Attornies, on an easily trumped
up Indictment for seditious libel. Can we not then in India, a
handful as we are of whites – trust sufficiently to the esprit de
corps and the sense of common safety to deter an Editor, (if
want of subscribers could not cool the Quixote) from exciting revolt
and persuading the native, to cut his own, and his fellow
European's throats –

But I shall not further pursue this branch of the argument,
my object is mainly to shew – that without a Press, without
Institutions, without rights of person or property, without the privilege
of using freely their skill, industry and capital – without
safe and organized means of complaint or petition – Europeans
who in India are as yet the only considerable class, capable
of estimating and influencing the pub conduct of public men, –
are powerless and helpless – and that the introduction of Jury-trial
or any other improvement that depends materially on the
conduct of those who are to set the machine in motion – to
be other than a mockery and waste of time, must be accompanied
by some safe and easy means of embodying public opinion
on the spot, where alone it can have that force in reacting
on the Judges, of which delay and distance so effectually
deprive the injured, when it has to travel hither.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	161	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 / c6 / c7 / c8
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	3597
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