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guilty. Zenger was guilty, he yelled, not for printing untruths, but for criticizing a government official.
Hamilton fired back, claiming «Zenger was innocent unless his words were false.
At this, the red-robed English judges stopped Hamilton and said, “You cannot be admitted, Mr. Hamilton, to give the truth of libel as evidence.*'
Hamilton bowed to the court, and slowly turned to the jury.
“Then, gentlemen of the jury,” he said, “it is to you iwe must now appeal.
“This is not the case of a poor printer/ nor of New York alone. No! It may affect . . . every free man ...
“An impartial and uncorrupt verdict (will give the right) of exposing and opposing arbitrary
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