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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 14, 8 November 1843, Page 4

The proposition which I mean to main-; tain as the basis of the liberty of the press, and with mt which it is ait empty sound, is this---that every man not intending to mislead, hut seeking to enlighten others, with what his own conscience, however erroneously, has dictated to him as truth, may address himself to the universal reason of a whole naiiott, either upon the subjects of governments in general, or upon that of our own particular country : that he may analyse the principles of its constitution ; point out its ertors am! defects-- examine and publish its corruptions --watn his fellow-citizens against ruinous consequences— and exert his whole faculties in pointing out the most advantageous changes in establishments which he considers to be radically defective or sliding from fheir object by abuse.-—All this every subject of this country has a right to do, if he contemplate only what he thinks would be to its advantage, and but seeks to change the public mind by the conviction which flows from ret.S-mmgs dictated by conscience.— Erskine.