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Excerpt from A Statement, by James C. Biddle and William M. Meredith, of the Philadelphia Bar
From our knowledge of the circumstances, we had indeed little expectation that the Court would in this instance interfere to punish'orto reprimand the immediate offender; and perhaps this was the only case in which we should not have been sur prised and confounded at hearing a Judge declare from the Bench, in speaking of such a crime, that he'saw no impropriety in the publication of what was done publicly; that he knew of no law to the contrary, and that such a statement as the one then 'in question, did not appear to him to be other than a fair state ment! We had characterized the report fairly and Openly, and with no more freedom of expression than it merited; and in this we firmly believe, consisted our real offence. This was the con tempt (though we suppressed at the moment any personal appli cation of it). Which so aroused in the Court the sense of their dignity.
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