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An editorial reflection from the Goulburn newspaper, the Southern Argus, on James Martin's prosecution of the Freeman's Journal. The Argus hopes that the 'good sense of all who reverence the freedom of the Press, and acknowledge its right to criticise the actions of our public men, will not suffer, without protesting, a portion of the palladium of our civil and religious rights to be tampered with by any one, even although that one is at the head of the Government, with the funds of the colony ready to aid him in the prosecution of so selfish a cause.'