Quotes from Cameron Letter — Ned Kelly
1854–1880
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6 quotes
I need no lead or powder
to revenge my cause,
and if words be louder
I will appose your laws.
Cameron Letter (1878)
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)
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)
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)