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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... determined ; I began to collect arms , and was soon ready for his attack . When that Grand - Jury , summoned with no special reference to me , refused to find a bill and were discharged , I took public notice of the conduct of Judge ...
... determined ; I began to collect arms , and was soon ready for his attack . When that Grand - Jury , summoned with no special reference to me , refused to find a bill and were discharged , I took public notice of the conduct of Judge ...
Side 7
... determined the amount of my bail , and the same eye which had frowned with such baleful aspect on the rescuers of Shadrach , quailed down underneath my look and sought the ground . In thus mentioning my former visits to the court , I ...
... determined the amount of my bail , and the same eye which had frowned with such baleful aspect on the rescuers of Shadrach , quailed down underneath my look and sought the ground . In thus mentioning my former visits to the court , I ...
Side 25
... determining the malice or innocence of the intention . " 66 It is not that I think the intention a matter of fact ; no , in the sense put upon it by the judges , it is a matter of law . " " Much dust has been raised about civil and ...
... determining the malice or innocence of the intention . " 66 It is not that I think the intention a matter of fact ; no , in the sense put upon it by the judges , it is a matter of law . " " Much dust has been raised about civil and ...
Side 30
... determined to punish such as spoke against the Papal Church , though no law prohibited such speaking . Judge 13 St. Tr . 383 ; Laud's Diary , 4th November ; 2 Hallam , 28 . 23 St. Tr . 561 ; 2 Hallam , 28 , and his authorities . See ...
... determined to punish such as spoke against the Papal Church , though no law prohibited such speaking . Judge 13 St. Tr . 383 ; Laud's Diary , 4th November ; 2 Hallam , 28 . 23 St. Tr . 561 ; 2 Hallam , 28 , and his authorities . See ...
Side 36
... determined that Mr. Horne should be brought to trial . But as public opinion , stimulated by Erskine , Camden and others , favored the rights of the Jury , it seems to have been thought dangerous to trust the case to a Grand - Jury ...
... determined that Mr. Horne should be brought to trial . But as public opinion , stimulated by Erskine , Camden and others , favored the rights of the Jury , it seems to have been thought dangerous to trust the case to a Grand - Jury ...
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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.