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After listening to this mass of evidence for a week, Newett begged to withdraw his charge and to apologize, and he confessed that he had nothing but hearsay on which to base his slanders. Then Roosevelt addressed the court and asked it not to impose damages upon the defendant, as he had not prosecuted the libeler with the intention of getting satisfaction in money.
And when you come to think of it, Charles Stuart lost his head on the block five years from that day. When Eli Kirke left jail to take ship for Boston Town both ears had been cropped. On his forehead the letters S L seditious libeler were branded deep, though not so deep as the bitterness burned into his soul.
These are the witnesses of the church, and the only ones you bring forward to support your charge that Thomas Paine lived a drunken and beastly life, and died a drunken, cowardly, and beastly death. All these calumnies are found in a life of Paine by James Cheetham, the convicted libeler already referred to. Mr. Cheetham was an enemy of the man whose life he pretended to write.
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