024 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(024.jpg) Verso of [jurors] the most unwelcome visitors the mother country can send - these and other similar impositions of old England have tended to raise a party spirit in this colony which will grow with its growth and strengthen with its strength, at present, that spirit has not manifested itself in any formidable shape, but the seeds are sown, and if these evils will take such strong hold of the very entrails of the country that not even the overwhelming partiality at an emigrant and his descendants feel for their fatherland will stop its progress - It is expected that trial by jury will soon become universal, but it has been often expected before - and like most other expectations it keeps the word of promise to our ear and breaks it to our hope - All cases of the Quarter Sessions were also tried by a Military jury and in remote parts of the country where these courts are held quarterly their attendance entails a heavy expence on the public funds which might will be dispenced with were there no other objection to them - For a good an respectable jury can now be assembled in every part of the territory where court are holden. The home government would do well to recollect that places which at one period would scarcely afford sufficient inhabitants to constitute a jury after the lapse of a twelvemonth might produce 3 or 400 - with such surprising rapidity does the free population concentrate on particular points that are considered advantageous for townships - Whilst the slow and [spuring] hand with which the necessary institutions of a free country are doled out to us can never reach the wants which progress so rapidly in a new country SubjectNSWHunter ValleySettlerNew South Wales historyNSW historyAustralian historyMaitlandNew South WalesAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2665505845/

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