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| ‘Nowhere but in the columns of the Argus has the justice or
desirableness of condemning the Ballarat prisoners ever been publicly
asserted. The people have unanimously demanded an amnesty for the
political offences arising out of that unhappy period of blunders and
misrule...
The public have been sadly imposed upon by the report that Sir Charles
Hotham was an accomplished diplomatist, as well as an experienced man of
war. His brief reign has already satisfied the great majority of the
people in this colony that he is experienced chiefly in the arts of petty
despotism, and that his principal accomplishment consists in a wonderful
capacity for making mischief.’ |
ImageTitle Eureka defendents in the dockDescription The age (Melbourne) 10 March 1855 |
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