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 páginas |
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... never returned a word in defence . But now , as this case is one of such vast and far - reaching importance , involving the great Human Right to Freedom of Speech , and as the actual ques- tion before the court was never brought to ...
... never returned a word in defence . But now , as this case is one of such vast and far - reaching importance , involving the great Human Right to Freedom of Speech , and as the actual ques- tion before the court was never brought to ...
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... never thought the case would come to the jury . I looked over the indictment , and to my unlearned eye it seemed so looped and win- dowed with breaches that a skilful lawyer might drive a cart and six oxen through it in various ...
... never thought the case would come to the jury . I looked over the indictment , and to my unlearned eye it seemed so looped and win- dowed with breaches that a skilful lawyer might drive a cart and six oxen through it in various ...
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... never seen a Judge , only a commissioner , nor a Jury ; no Court but a solitary kidnapper . Some of his attendants had spoken of me as a minister not heedless of the welfare and unalien- able rights of a black man fallen among a family ...
... never seen a Judge , only a commissioner , nor a Jury ; no Court but a solitary kidnapper . Some of his attendants had spoken of me as a minister not heedless of the welfare and unalien- able rights of a black man fallen among a family ...
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... never come to trial on that day — of course it was put off . Mr. Sims and Mr. Burns were accused of no crime but birth from a mother whom some one had stolen . They had only a mock trial , without due process of law , with no judge , no ...
... never come to trial on that day — of course it was put off . Mr. Sims and Mr. Burns were accused of no crime but birth from a mother whom some one had stolen . They had only a mock trial , without due process of law , with no judge , no ...
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... never before applied to actions like mine ; never meant to apply to such actions ; not legally capable of such applica- tion . But in fact , my offence is very different from what the indict- ment attempts to set forth . The judges know ...
... never before applied to actions like mine ; never meant to apply to such actions ; not legally capable of such applica- tion . But in fact , my offence is very different from what the indict- ment attempts to set forth . The judges know ...
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Página 148 - That the Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.