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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... appointed I was ready with my defence which I now print for the Country . It is a Minister's performance , not a lawyer's . Of course , I knew that the Court would not have allowed me to proceed with such a defence and that I should be ...
... appointed I was ready with my defence which I now print for the Country . It is a Minister's performance , not a lawyer's . Of course , I knew that the Court would not have allowed me to proceed with such a defence and that I should be ...
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... appointed to do its inferior business , a man who needed no conviction , no evi- dence but the oath of a slave - hunter and the extorted " admission " of his victim , an official who was to have ten dollars for making a slave , five ...
... appointed to do its inferior business , a man who needed no conviction , no evi- dence but the oath of a slave - hunter and the extorted " admission " of his victim , an official who was to have ten dollars for making a slave , five ...
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... appointed such men as would execute his unlawful schemes for the destruction of public liberty . To such considerations was Francis Bacon mainly indebted for his elevation from one legal rank to another , until he reached the seat of ...
... appointed such men as would execute his unlawful schemes for the destruction of public liberty . To such considerations was Francis Bacon mainly indebted for his elevation from one legal rank to another , until he reached the seat of ...
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... appointed in his place . " For he had steadfastly maintained that the King was absolute , and could dis- pense with law and parliament , —a fit person to be a Chief Justice , or a Lord Chancellor , in a tyrant's court , ready to enact ...
... appointed in his place . " For he had steadfastly maintained that the King was absolute , and could dis- pense with law and parliament , —a fit person to be a Chief Justice , or a Lord Chancellor , in a tyrant's court , ready to enact ...
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... appointed to judge some of those who shouk have been his Judges . " He declared in Parliament that Milton , or services rendered to the cause of liberty while Latin Secretary tromwell , " deserved hang- ing . " 2 4 In these reigns such ...
... appointed to judge some of those who shouk have been his Judges . " He declared in Parliament that Milton , or services rendered to the cause of liberty while Latin Secretary tromwell , " deserved hang- ing . " 2 4 In these reigns such ...
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Page 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.
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 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 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,
Page 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.
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 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.
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.