Statement of Facts Relating: To the Trespass on the Printing Press in the Possession of Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie, in June, 1826 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Statement of Facts Relating<br/><br/>IN presenting to the Public 3 statement of facts relating to the trespass committed in 1826 on the Printing Press, at that time in the possession of Mr. William Lyon m'kenzie, and candidly de elating and avowing the motives which in?uenced the persous con cerned in that act, I feel it necessary, as 1 am connected with the Government bv an othee, however unimportant, to ofter, respect fully, to his excellency the lieutenant governor, rm apology for the liberty I have taken in presuming to make me of His name, or the names of persons forming members of His Government without first obtaining his permission, or even making him aware of my intention. But the Editor of the Colonial Advocate, having lately thought proper, by representing in his usual stvle, statements relating to the injury committed upon his pmperty, bv myselfand a few others, in language Which could not have proceeded from any mind not cal lous to truth, and devoid of every honorable and virtuous feeling, with the sole view of exciting public indignation against myself and companions, and involving the Government in a suspicion created bv his own malignant imagination, that they were the contrivers and instigators ofthe act he complains ot; I cannot, in justice to myself, or to those implicated through my indiscretion, remain lon ger silent, and quietly Witness this second attempt at imposition, without an ettort to counteract its wicked and mischievous tendency, by what I declare on my honor, and what is known to eight or nine other persons} concerned with me, to be a true, faithful, and ungar nished statement of every thing' that occurred relating to that hasty ktixnhinconsidlerate act.

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