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<p>Hard enough so much as to conceive in theory <lb/>a disorder like this is by much too hard <add>endured</add> <del>conceived</del><lb/> in practice. One of two things: either the <add>these</add> <del><gap/></del> <lb/> outcasts of mankind <add>most disorderly of men</add> must be left to do what they please, <lb/>or <del>w</del> a <add>that</add> chosen Servant of the British Crown must<lb/> be left to order them and every body else to do as <lb/>he pleases. The option was not a difficult one. He<lb/> carried with him the name of <hi rend='underline'>Governor</hi>: and this name, <lb/>with or without an illegal instruction from the Privy <lb/>Council, was to be to him and to every body instead <lb/>of an Act of Parliament.</p> | <p>Hard enough so much as to conceive in theory <lb/>a disorder like this is by much too hard <add>endured</add> <del>conceived</del><lb/> in practice. One of two things: either the <add>these</add> <del><gap/></del> <lb/> outcasts of mankind <add>most disorderly of men</add> must be left to do what they please, <lb/>or <del>w</del> a <add>that</add> chosen Servant of the British Crown must<lb/> be left to order them and every body else to do as <lb/>he pleases. The option was not a difficult one. He<lb/> carried with him the name of <hi rend='underline'>Governor</hi>: and this name, <lb/>with or without an illegal instruction from the Privy <lb/>Council, was to be to him and to every body instead <lb/>of an Act of Parliament.</p> | ||
<p>A few lines <add>But a line or two</add> ago we were at Liberty — where<lb/> <gap/> <gap/>; now already we are in the din of Despotism.<lb/> They are on opposite sides of the way: but the distance is not<b/> great. Out of the strong <sic>cometh</sic> forth sweet, said the<lb/> strong man when he <del>saw</del> found the <gap/> in the carcase <lb/>of the strong <unclear>beast</unclear>. | |||
25 June 1802 4
N. S. Wales 14
. This defect in itself is something, but in comparison it
is as nothing. For what power has he any than a Convict,
from the instant his legal term of transportation
is at an end. So that The very persons for whom the
Laws of Britain were not strong enough, are sent to
a wild country at the antipodes to be to live without
any laws: to live without any laws, in the if they
please, of a Governor who by his commission in virtue of his hopes with the
and his fears grounded in it is himself most strictly
bound by laws.
Hard enough so much as to conceive in theory
a disorder like this is by much too hard endured conceived
in practice. One of two things: either the these
outcasts of mankind most disorderly of men must be left to do what they please,
or w a that chosen Servant of the British Crown must
be left to order them and every body else to do as
he pleases. The option was not a difficult one. He
carried with him the name of Governor: and this name,
with or without an illegal instruction from the Privy
Council, was to be to him and to every body instead
of an Act of Parliament.
A few lines But a line or two ago we were at Liberty — where
; now already we are in the din of Despotism.
They are on opposite sides of the way: but the distance is not great. Out of the strong cometh forth sweet, said the
strong man when he saw found the in the carcase
of the strong beast.
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