The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping, Before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855Published for the author, 1855 - 221 sider |
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... ENGLAND ITS KELYNG , ITS SAUNDERS , ITS JEFFREYS , AND ITS SCROGGS , AS NOW IN AMERICA ITS SHARKEY , ITS GRIER , ITS CURTIS , AND ITS KANE , HAS YET ALSO SUCH GENEROUS ADVOCATES OF HUMANITY AS EQUAL THE GLORIES OF HOLT AND ERSKINE , OF ...
... ENGLAND ITS KELYNG , ITS SAUNDERS , ITS JEFFREYS , AND ITS SCROGGS , AS NOW IN AMERICA ITS SHARKEY , ITS GRIER , ITS CURTIS , AND ITS KANE , HAS YET ALSO SUCH GENEROUS ADVOCATES OF HUMANITY AS EQUAL THE GLORIES OF HOLT AND ERSKINE , OF ...
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... England com- munity then getting indignant at the outrages of the Slave Power . I never thought the case would come to the jury . I looked over the indictment , and to my unlearned eye it seemed so looped and win- dowed with breaches ...
... England com- munity then getting indignant at the outrages of the Slave Power . I never thought the case would come to the jury . I looked over the indictment , and to my unlearned eye it seemed so looped and win- dowed with breaches ...
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... of men . A measure is nothing without its Principle . The Idea which allows Slavery in South Carolina will establish it also in New England . The bondage of a black man in Alexandria imperils every FREEDOM AND SLAVERY . 11.
... of men . A measure is nothing without its Principle . The Idea which allows Slavery in South Carolina will establish it also in New England . The bondage of a black man in Alexandria imperils every FREEDOM AND SLAVERY . 11.
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... England . The monarch seeking to destroy the liberty of the people , accomplishes his violent measure by the forms of peaceful law 18 CORRUPTION OF THE JUDICIARY . of a Power hostile to Democratic Institutions and the unalienable ...
... England . The monarch seeking to destroy the liberty of the people , accomplishes his violent measure by the forms of peaceful law 18 CORRUPTION OF THE JUDICIARY . of a Power hostile to Democratic Institutions and the unalienable ...
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... England which are easy to understand , because her blood is kindred to our own , and the institutions of the two countries are related as parent and child . And besides , her past history affords alike warning and guidance in our ...
... England which are easy to understand , because her blood is kindred to our own , and the institutions of the two countries are related as parent and child . And besides , her past history affords alike warning and guidance in our ...
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Side 148 - That the Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land...
Side 101 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With Heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Side 189 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Side 191 - Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
Side 96 - Gentlemen, you shall not be dismissed till we have a verdict that the court will accept, and you shall be locked up without meat, drink, fire, and tobacco. You shall not think thus to abuse the court. We will have a verdict, by the help of God, or you shall starve for it.
Side 119 - I discharged every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity, as absolute and as palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image...
Side 161 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Side 132 - Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering; but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
Side 111 - I hope will not be taken amiss of me to say in this place, to wit, the practice of informations for libels is a sword in the hands of a wicked king, and an arrant coward to cut down and destroy the innocent; the one cannot, because of his high station, and the other dares not, because of his want of courage, revenge himself in another manner.
Side 31 - And every parish shall maintain a tithe pig metropolitan." Baxter beginning to speak again, Jefferies reviled him; "Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.