Lizard on Nostr: #[0] #[1] Pull Quote: "In the Conduct of my Newspaper I carefully excluded all ...
npub12ela87ghahjnnpr656p24prwlyzzle36dc2gfkgw5mnunyaj6j9qwpge5f (npub12el…ge5f) npub13ew9prnnz5r7wdrrydzwujz2x20dj9mh2auz3gwe9jgqt8zmfecsj0xpvg (npub13ew…xpvg) Pull Quote:
"In the Conduct of my Newspaper I carefully excluded all Libelling and Personal Abuse.... Whenever I was solicited to insert any thing of that kind, and the Writers pleaded as they generally did, the Liberty of the Press, *and that a Newspaper was like a Stage Coach in which any one who would pay had a Right to a Place*, my Answer was, that I would print the Piece separately if desired ... but that I would not take upon me to spread his Detraction, and that having contracted with my Subscribers to furnish them with what might be either useful or entertaining, I could not fill their Papers with private Altercation ... without doing them manifest Injustice.” (Emphasis added)
"In the Conduct of my Newspaper I carefully excluded all Libelling and Personal Abuse.... Whenever I was solicited to insert any thing of that kind, and the Writers pleaded as they generally did, the Liberty of the Press, *and that a Newspaper was like a Stage Coach in which any one who would pay had a Right to a Place*, my Answer was, that I would print the Piece separately if desired ... but that I would not take upon me to spread his Detraction, and that having contracted with my Subscribers to furnish them with what might be either useful or entertaining, I could not fill their Papers with private Altercation ... without doing them manifest Injustice.” (Emphasis added)