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 xi
... to be able in case of need , to afford assistance to those actually engaged ; but all who , though absent , did procure , 1 The charge is printed below , at page 170 . counsel , command , or abet others to commit the INTRODUCTION . xi.
... to be able in case of need , to afford assistance to those actually engaged ; but all who , though absent , did procure , 1 The charge is printed below , at page 170 . counsel , command , or abet others to commit the INTRODUCTION . xi.
Side xii
... command , or abet others to commit the offence ; and all who , by indirect means , by evincing an express liking , approbation , or assent to the design , were liable as principals . And he added , " My instruction to you is , that ...
... command , or abet others to commit the offence ; and all who , by indirect means , by evincing an express liking , approbation , or assent to the design , were liable as principals . And he added , " My instruction to you is , that ...
Side xvi
... command whereof the said Freeman was then and there lawfully retaining , detaining , and holding one Anthony Burns for the further hearing and determination of a certain complaint , upon which a warrant before that time , to wit , on ...
... command whereof the said Freeman was then and there lawfully retaining , detaining , and holding one Anthony Burns for the further hearing and determination of a certain complaint , upon which a warrant before that time , to wit , on ...
Side 6
... commands ! 2. It was the honorable Judge now on the distinguished bench who tried men for the rescue of Shadrach . How he tried them is well known . 3. It was Edward G. Loring , another of this family so distin- guished , who kidnapped ...
... commands ! 2. It was the honorable Judge now on the distinguished bench who tried men for the rescue of Shadrach . How he tried them is well known . 3. It was Edward G. Loring , another of this family so distin- guished , who kidnapped ...
Side 9
... command at once , and then come to the details of each , ploughing it all over before your face , furrow by furrow . I shall speak , I. Of the State of Affairs in America which has led to this prose- cution , the Encroachments of a ...
... command at once , and then come to the details of each , ploughing it all over before your face , furrow by furrow . I shall speak , I. Of the State of Affairs in America which has led to this prose- cution , the Encroachments of a ...
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Side 153 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
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 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 31 - Pollexfen gently reminded the court that his late majesty had thought Baxter deserving of a bishopric. " And what ailed the old blockhead then," cried Jeffreys, " that he did not take it ?" His fury now rose almost to madness. He called Baxter a dog, and swore that it would be no more than justice to whip such a villain through the whole city. ' Wallop interposed, but fared no better than his leader. " You are in all these dirty causes, Mr. Wallop,
Side 31 - 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.
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 31 - He would have nothing but longwinded cant without book ;' and then his lordship turned up his eyes, clasped his hands, and began to sing through his nose in imitation of what he supposed to be Baxter's style of praying, ' Lord, we are thy people, thy peculiar people, thy dear people.
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.