text:  He resolved on doing all this _though sure of being condemned to imprisonment and a fine by the special jury_; he judged from the well-known reputation of that class of men and from what he had seen other newspaper proprietors receive at their hands for publishing the oppressive conduct of landlords; but he resolved on justifying by evidence in the hope that a public trial at which such witnesses as the persecuted tenants of plaintiff would appear would draw public attention to their unfortunate condition