'The views and opinions of Brigadier General John Jacob, CB. Aide-decamp to the Queen; Aide-de-camp to the Governor General of India, &c. &c. &c.; late commanding in chief the British forces in Persia; at present commanding the Sind Irregular Horse, and Political Superintendent of the North-West frontier of Sind.' [‎9] (40/481)

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is unwise to gag the press. When all are free to speak,
men know that the worst is said. Ill-will and sedition
evaporate in words, and the public believe as much as
they please of what they see printed. But when the
public voice is stifled, suspicion, distrust, fear, discontent,
and almost every other public ill, commence.
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I would wish to see every government and every
public man live down calumny and falsehood. If you
really are good, be sure that the consequences which nature
has attached to that goodness must ensue. It is not more
certain that a pound of matter, scatter it how you will,
still weighs one pound in God's universe, than that a good
performed, hide it, deny it how you will, has its due and
certain weight in the same universe. In this, as in all
else, the law of the moral is identical with that of the
physical world. Therefore, I say again, be yourself, and
leave consequences to the Author of all being: perfect
freedom is perfect law.— (March, 1857.)
ON MISSIONARIES; AND THE INTERFERENCE OF
THE STATE IN MATTERS APPERTAINING TO
RELIGION.
To interfere with the labours of the missionary, by
whatsoever church or sect deputed, would be as unjust and
impolitic as to interfere with the business of any person
trading or professing. Let the missionary preach, and, if
he can, convert, so long as he remains, and be generally
known to be, wholly unconnected with the State. But the
interference of Government, or of the members of Govern
ment in their official capacities, to countenance or sanction
the endeavours of missionaries, or any other ministers
of religion, is, in India, fraught with evil. And every
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