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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Side v
... bill and were discharged , I took public notice of the conduct of Judge Curtis , in a Sermon for the Fourth of July.1 But I knew the friends of the fugitive slave bill at Boston and Washington too well to think they would let the matter ...
... bill and were discharged , I took public notice of the conduct of Judge Curtis , in a Sermon for the Fourth of July.1 But I knew the friends of the fugitive slave bill at Boston and Washington too well to think they would let the matter ...
Side ix
... fugitive slave bill - Act of Septem- ber 18th , 1850 - praying for the seizure and enslavement of Anthony Burns . The next day , Wednesday , May 24th , Commissioner Loring issued the warrant : Mr. Burns was seized in the course of the ...
... fugitive slave bill - Act of Septem- ber 18th , 1850 - praying for the seizure and enslavement of Anthony Burns . The next day , Wednesday , May 24th , Commissioner Loring issued the warrant : Mr. Burns was seized in the course of the ...
Side xi
... William Durant , Hopkinton . Leominster . 22 66 23 66 Charles Grant , Jeremiah B. Luther , 66 Douglas . On the 7th of June , Judge Curtis gave to this Grand - Jury his charge . In that he spoke of the enforcement of the fugitive slave bill ...
... William Durant , Hopkinton . Leominster . 22 66 23 66 Charles Grant , Jeremiah B. Luther , 66 Douglas . On the 7th of June , Judge Curtis gave to this Grand - Jury his charge . In that he spoke of the enforcement of the fugitive slave bill ...
Side 2
... Law of God above the fugitive slave bill ! Such are the acts charged . Gentlemen of the Jury , you are sum- moned here to declare them a Crime , and then to punish me for this " offence ! " You are the Axe which the Government grasps ...
... Law of God above the fugitive slave bill ! Such are the acts charged . Gentlemen of the Jury , you are sum- moned here to declare them a Crime , and then to punish me for this " offence ! " You are the Axe which the Government grasps ...
Side 4
... fugitive slave bill ; and when the law of Massachusetts is read , the chain is also upon the neck of that court ! Within the court house was full of armed men . I found Mr. Sims in a private room , illegally , in defiance of Massachusetts ...
... fugitive slave bill ; and when the law of Massachusetts is read , the chain is also upon the neck of that court ! Within the court house was full of armed men . I found Mr. Sims in a private room , illegally , in defiance of Massachusetts ...
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aforesaid alleged America Anthony Burns appointed attempt Attorney authority bondage Boston brought to trial Campbell charge Charles Chief Justice citizens committed common conscience Constitution counsel Court House crime declared deed defend despotism duty Edward G Ellen Craft England evincing an express execution fact Faneuil Hall Freedom Freeman fugitive slave bill Gentlemen Grand-Jury guilty habeas corpus Hallett hands high treason Higher Law Hist honor human imprisonment indictment jail Judge Curtis judicial jurors jury Kelyng kidnapping king lawyers levying libel liberty Lord Lord Chancellor mankind Marshal matter ment minister misdemeanor moral murder nation oath obey obstructing offence officer opinion Parl Parliament party peace Peleg Sprague persons political punish purpose question refused Religion resist Scroggs seditious Sermon Slave Power Slavery speech statute Theodore Parker thing tion trial by jury tyranny unalienable United verdict warrant Webster wicked words
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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.