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
... Jury , June 7th , 1854 , I made ready for trial , and in three or four days my line of defence was marked out the fortifications sketched , the place of the batteries determined ; I began to collect arms , and was soon ready for his ...
... Jury , June 7th , 1854 , I made ready for trial , and in three or four days my line of defence was marked out the fortifications sketched , the place of the batteries determined ; I began to collect arms , and was soon ready for his ...
Side vi
... jury summoned for that purpose . It need not be supposed that I was wholly ignorant of their doings from day to day . The arrest was no astonishment to me . I knew how much the reputation of this Court and of its Attorney depended on ...
... jury summoned for that purpose . It need not be supposed that I was wholly ignorant of their doings from day to day . The arrest was no astonishment to me . I knew how much the reputation of this Court and of its Attorney depended on ...
Side vii
... Jury . The latter would fur- nish the most piquant events , for some curious scenes were likely to take place in the ... jury trial , I should have had many other things to offer in reference to the Government's evidence , to the ...
... Jury . The latter would fur- nish the most piquant events , for some curious scenes were likely to take place in the ... jury trial , I should have had many other things to offer in reference to the Government's evidence , to the ...
Side xi
... Jury his charge.1 In that he spoke of the enforcement of the fugitive slave bill ; and he charged the Jury especially and minutely upon the Statute of the United States of 1790 , in relation to resisting officers in service of process ...
... Jury his charge.1 In that he spoke of the enforcement of the fugitive slave bill ; and he charged the Jury especially and minutely upon the Statute of the United States of 1790 , in relation to resisting officers in service of process ...
Side xii
... Jury remained in session a few weeks : pains were taken to induce them to find bills against the speakers at Faneuil Hall ; but they found no indictment under the law of 1790 , or that of 1850 ; they were discharged . On the 22d of ...
... Jury remained in session a few weeks : pains were taken to induce them to find bills against the speakers at Faneuil Hall ; but they found no indictment under the law of 1790 , or that of 1850 ; they were discharged . On the 22d of ...
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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.