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statement. Thus, if to put an extreme case, a person be called a liar in merely one solitary passage, which is the plea "ad misericordium" of the Memorialists in alluding to their most unfounded charge, of this Government having sold the Licensing System to the highest bidder - the person alluded to would, according to Memorialists, have less right to refute such charge than if it had been made in more than one paragraph.

9. The solitary paragraph involved a direct contradiction of my whole explanation of the Government Policy, and implied that such Policy was largely guided by a sordid motive of greed. Therefore, if I had consumed more than eleven paragraphs (for the Memorialists have counted them) in refuting misrepresentations on the point which I then stated, "to be the easiest and most unfair" on which "I still conceive that I was justified" to excite popular prejudice, I still conceive that I was justified.

10. It may perhaps seem superfluous to consume another paragraph in pursuing the Memorialists to the position where they have retreated, and depriving them of the consolation of endeavoring to persuade Your Lordship that, reading their former statement with the context open to the charge of being unfair, they are not.

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244 statement. Thus, if to put an extreme case, a person be called a liar in merely one solitary passage, which is the plea "ad misericordium" of the Memorialists in alluding to their most unfounded charge, of this Government having sold the Licensing System to the highest bidder - the person alluded to would, according to Memorialists, have less right to refute such charge than if it had been made in more than one paragraph. 9. The solitary paragraph involved a direct contradiction of my whole explanation of the Government Policy, and implied that such Policy was largely guided by a sordid motive of greed. Therefore, if I had consumed more than eleven paragraphs (for the Memorialists have counted them) in refuting misrepresentations on the point which I then stated, "to be the easiest and most unfair" on which "I still conceive that I was justified" to excite popular prejudice, I still conceive that I was justified. 10. It may perhaps seem superfluous to consume another paragraph in pursuing the Memorialists to the position where they have retreated, and depriving them of the consolation of endeavoring to persuade Your Lordship that, reading their former statement with the context open to the charge of being unfair, they are not.
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statement. Thus, if to put an extreme

case, a

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be called a liar in

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