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That charge [stealing over 200 horses] has never been proved against me, and it is held in English law that a man is innocent until proven guilty.
Sentencing (1880)
I need no lead or powder
to revenge my cause,
and if words be louder
I will appose your laws.
Cameron Letter (1878)
It will always pay a rich man to be liberal with the poor and make as little enemies as he can as he shall find if the poor is on his side he shall loose nothing by it.
Jerilderie Letter (1879)
If the public do not see justice done I will seek revenge for the name and character which has been given to me and my relations, while God gives me strength to pull a trigger.
Cameron Letter (1878)
Had I robbed, plundered, ravished and murdered everything I met my character could not be painted blacker than it as present, thank God my conscience is as clear as the snow in Peru.
Cameron Letter (1878)
I am really astonished to see Members of the Legislative Assembly led astray by such articles as the Police, for while an outlaw reigns their pocket swells, tis double pay and country girls.
Cameron Letter (1878)
Fitzpatrick shall be the cause of greater slaughter to the Union Jack than St. Patrick was to the snakes and toads of Ireland.
Jerilderie Letter (1879)
This cannot be called wilful murder, for I was compelled to shoot [the police] in my own defence, or lie down like a cur and die.
Cameron Letter (1878)
Circumstances have forced us to become what we are—outcasts and outlaws—and bad as we are, we are not so bad as we are supposed to be.
O'Loghlen Letter (1879)
I would have scattered their blood and brains like rain I would manure the Eleven Mile with their bloated carcasses and yet remember there is not one drop of murderous blood in my Veins.
Jerilderie Letter (1879)
Oh, what a pretty garden.
I felt more keenly than I can express the unjust treatment meted out to my mother, who was arrested with a baby at her breast and convicted of a crime of which she was innocent.
Statements to the press (1880)
Mrs McCormack struck my horse in the flank with a bullock's skin it jumped forward and my fist came in collision with McCormack's nose and caused him to loose his equillibrium and fall postrate.
Jerilderie Letter (1879)
People who live in large towns have no idea of the tyrannical conduct of the police in country places far removed from court; they have no idea of the harsh and overbearing manner in which they execute their duty, or how they neglect their duty and abuse their powers.
Statements to the press (1880)
It will pay Government to give those people who are suffering innocence, justice and liberty. if not I will be compelled to show some colonial stratagem which will open the eyes of not only the Victoria Police and inhabitants but also the whole British army and no doubt they will acknowledge their hounds were barking at the wrong stump.
Jerilderie Letter (1879)
... a day will come, at a bigger Court than this, when we shall see which is right and which is wrong.
Sentencing (1880)
If my life teaches the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may not exasperate to madness men they persecute and illtreat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.
Statements to the press (1880)
My mother, with an infant baby, and brother-in-law and another neighbour, were taken for aiding and abetting and attempting to murder [Fitzpatrick], a charge for which they are as purely innocent as the child unborn.
Cameron Letter (1878)
It appeared [based on the evidence given] that I deliberately took up arms, of my own accord, and induced the other three to join me, for the purpose of doing nothing but shooting down the police.
Sentencing (1880)