Cirrus@Austlit

An extensive report on the 3 August 1868 meeting in Bathurst to consider 'the present crisis in the career of the Freeman's Journal and to propose a means of 'establishing another journal in its place should the present prosecution be successful'. (The prosecution is that instigated by Premier and Attorney General James Martin over the improper registration of the Freeman's Journal with the Supreme Court.)

The meeting resolved: 'That this meeting condemns the present action of the Government in prosecuting the Freeman's Journal, as it is their opinion that private animosity and not the vindication of the law is the object of the Attorney-General, and we hereby pledge ourselves to aid in the establishment of another Journal should the present prosecution be successful'.

A fund to support such a journal was started with a donation of ten guineas from Mr Richard Kenna.