And the Attorney General likewise gives the Court here to understand and be informed:
That the said John Peter Zenger afterwards, to wit on the eighth day of April, did falsely, seditiously and scandalously print and publish another false, malicious, seditious, and scandalous libel entitled _The New York Weekly Journal_.
In which libel, among other things therein contained, are these words, "One of our neighbors (_one of the inhabitants of New Jersey meaning_) being in company and observing the strangers (_some of the inhabitants of New York meaning_) full of complaints, endeavored to persuade them to remove into Jersey. To which it was replied, that would be leaping out of the frying pan into the fire; for, says he, we both are under the same Governor (_His Excellency the said Governor meaning_), and your Assembly have shown with a vengeance what is to be expected from them. One that was then moving to Pennsylvania (_meaning one that was then removing from New York with intent to reside at Pennsylvania_), to which place it is reported that several considerable men are removing (_from New York meaning_), expressed in terms very moving much concern for the circumstances of New York (_the bad circumstances of the Province and people of New York meaning_), and seemed to think them very much owing to the influence that some men (whom he called tools) had in the administration (_meaning the administration of government of the said Province of New York_). He said he was now going from them, and was not to be hurt by any measures they should take, but could not help having some concern for the welfare of his countrymen, and should be glad to hear that the Assembly (_meaning the General Assembly of the Province of New York_) would exert themselves as became them by showing that they have the interest of their country more at heart than the gratification of any private view of any of their members, or being at all affected by the smiles or frowns of a governor (_His Excellency the said Governor meaning_); both of which ought equally to be despised when the interest of their country is at stake.
"You, says he, complain of the lawyers, but I think the law itself is at an end. We (_the people of the Province of New York meaning_) see men's deeds destroyed, judges arbitrarily displaced, new courts erected without consent of the legislature (_within the Province of New York meaning_) by which it seems to me trial by jury is taken away when a governor pleases (_His Excellency the said Governor meaning_), and men of known estates denied their votes contrary to the received practice, the best expositor of any law. Who is there then in that Province (_meaning the Province of New York_) that can call anything his own, or enjoy any liberty, longer than those in the administration (_meaning the administration of government of the said Province of New York_) will condescend to let them do it? For which reason I have left it, as I believe more will."