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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... construct the Jury roster and return the Jury from a portion of the District , the Judge said they would express no opinion . Mr. Hallett insisted on his right to enter a nolle prosequi in the other cases ; and the Judges decided that ...
... construct the Jury roster and return the Jury from a portion of the District , the Judge said they would express no opinion . Mr. Hallett insisted on his right to enter a nolle prosequi in the other cases ; and the Judges decided that ...
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... construct law against the liberty of speech . Of course Mr. Horne was convicted . But how should he be punished ? Thurlow determined . " My Lords , the punishments to be inflicted upon misdemeanors of this sort , have usually been of ...
... construct law against the liberty of speech . Of course Mr. Horne was convicted . But how should he be punished ? Thurlow determined . " My Lords , the punishments to be inflicted upon misdemeanors of this sort , have usually been of ...
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... construct crimes where the law made none . Thus he de- clares , “ in cases of high treason , if any one do any thing by which he showeth his liking and approbation to the Traitorous Design , this is in him High Treason . For all are ...
... construct crimes where the law made none . Thus he de- clares , “ in cases of high treason , if any one do any thing by which he showeth his liking and approbation to the Traitorous Design , this is in him High Treason . For all are ...
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... construct a word into " Treason , " or " evincing express approbation " into a " Misdemeanor , " " resisting an officer . " And if the final decision rested with such a court , it would be exceeding easy to make way with any man whom ...
... construct a word into " Treason , " or " evincing express approbation " into a " Misdemeanor , " " resisting an officer . " And if the final decision rested with such a court , it would be exceeding easy to make way with any man whom ...
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... constructs new statutes , invents new crimes . He treats the law as freely as he treats the facts making the most that is possible against the party accused . You have seen already what tricks Government attorneys have played , how they ...
... constructs new statutes , invents new crimes . He treats the law as freely as he treats the facts making the most that is possible against the party accused . You have seen already what tricks Government attorneys have played , how they ...
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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.