 I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. " In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, — the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last...  John Brown - Side 359af William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - 1909 - 406 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1859 - 748 sider
...see his moral portrait ? read his speech just before sentence of death was passed upon him : — ' I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say....deny everything but what I have all along admitted of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter,... | |
 | 1859 - 522 sider
...death should not be pronounced upon him, he immediately rose, and, in a clear, distinct voice, said : " I have, may it please the Court, a " few words to...deny everything but what I have " all along admitted of a design on my " part to free slaves. I intended cer" tainly to have made a clean thing of " that... | |
 | Robert M. De Witt - 1859 - 146 sider
...upon him. Mr. BROWN immediately rose, and in a clear, distinct voice, said : " I have, may it plea«e the Court, a few words to say. In the first place,...deny everything but what I have all along admitted, of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter,... | |
 | James Redpath - 1860 - 456 sider
...SPEECH. " I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. " In the first place, I deny every thing but what I have all along admitted — the design...free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clear thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into Missouri, and there took slaves... | |
 | Richard Davis Webb - 1861 - 480 sider
...same time, and hence he had not expected to be sentenced so soon. His address was as follows : — " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say....free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clear thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into Missouri, and there took slaves... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 486 sider
...same time, and hence he had not expected to be sentenced so soon. His address was as follows : — " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say....free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clear thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into Missouri, and there took slaves... | |
 | American Anti-Slavery Society - 1861 - 352 sider
...rejoice at the heaviest blow their victim was to suffer." We give his brief and noble speech entire. " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say....deny everything but what I have, all along, admitted, of a design, on my part, to free Slaves. I intended, certainly, to have made a clean thing of that... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 782 sider
...pronounced upon him. BROWN'S SPEECH. Mr. Brown immediately rose, and in a clear, distinct voice, said: 'I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny every thing but what I have all along admitted, of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended,... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 792 sider
...BROWN'S IPIBCH. Mr. Brown immediately rose, and in a clear, distinct voice, said : 'I have, may it plea» the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny every thing but what I have all along admitted, of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended,... | |
 | Eliza Wigham - 1863 - 180 sider
...pronounced upon him, he immediately rose from his mattress, and, in a clear, distinct voice, said, — " I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say....deny everything but what I have all along admitted of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter,... | |
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