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, 1855 |
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... GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY.— It is no trifling matter which comes before you this day . You may hereafter decide on millions of money , and on the lives of your fellow men ; but it is not likely that a ques- tion of this magnitude will ever ...
... GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY.— It is no trifling matter which comes before you this day . You may hereafter decide on millions of money , and on the lives of your fellow men ; but it is not likely that a ques- tion of this magnitude will ever ...
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... Gentlemen of the Jury , I am on trial for my love of Justice ; for my respect to the natural Rights of Man ; for speaking a word in behalf of what the Declaration of Independence calls the " self - evi- dent " Truth , that all men have ...
... Gentlemen of the Jury , I am on trial for my love of Justice ; for my respect to the natural Rights of Man ; for speaking a word in behalf of what the Declaration of Independence calls the " self - evi- dent " Truth , that all men have ...
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... Gentlemen of the Jury , my ministry deals chiefly with the Laws of God , little with the statutes of men . My manhood has been mainly passed in studying absolute , universal truth , teaching it to men , and applying it to the various ...
... Gentlemen of the Jury , my ministry deals chiefly with the Laws of God , little with the statutes of men . My manhood has been mainly passed in studying absolute , universal truth , teaching it to men , and applying it to the various ...
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... Gentlemen of the Jury , the judges and attorney cannot lay their hand on me until you twelve men with one voice say , " Yes ! put him in jail . " In the mock trial of Sims and Burns it was necessary to convince only a single official of ...
... Gentlemen of the Jury , the judges and attorney cannot lay their hand on me until you twelve men with one voice say , " Yes ! put him in jail . " In the mock trial of Sims and Burns it was necessary to convince only a single official of ...
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... Gentlemen , a United States Commissioner has his place on con- dition that he performs such services as his masters " require . " These United States Judges have their seat in consequence of services ren- dered to the ruling power of ...
... Gentlemen , a United States Commissioner has his place on con- dition that he performs such services as his masters " require . " These United States Judges have their seat in consequence of services ren- dered to the ruling power of ...
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Page 148 - That the Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.