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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... tion before the court was never brought to trial , I cannot let the occasion pass by without making further use of it . When Judge Curtis delivered his charge to the Grand - Jury , June 7th , 1854 , I made ready for trial , and in three ...
... tion before the court was never brought to trial , I cannot let the occasion pass by without making further use of it . When Judge Curtis delivered his charge to the Grand - Jury , June 7th , 1854 , I made ready for trial , and in three ...
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... tion of the District and contrary to law . " 3. Because the matters and things alleged in said indictment do not constitute any crime under the statute on which said indictment is framed , the said statute not em- bracing them , or ...
... tion of the District and contrary to law . " 3. Because the matters and things alleged in said indictment do not constitute any crime under the statute on which said indictment is framed , the said statute not em- bracing them , or ...
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... tion of this magnitude will ever twice be brought before the same jurymen . Opportunities to extend a far - reaching and ghastly wicked- ness , or to do great service for mankind , come but seldom in any man's life . Your verdict ...
... tion of this magnitude will ever twice be brought before the same jurymen . Opportunities to extend a far - reaching and ghastly wicked- ness , or to do great service for mankind , come but seldom in any man's life . Your verdict ...
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... tion Religion could offer to the first man Boston ever kidnapped , consolations which took hold only of eternity , where the servant is free from his master , for there the wicked cease from troubling . I could offer him no comfort this ...
... tion Religion could offer to the first man Boston ever kidnapped , consolations which took hold only of eternity , where the servant is free from his master , for there the wicked cease from troubling . I could offer him no comfort this ...
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... tion " to the marshal . On that side my condemnation is already sure . But there is another element . 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 ...
... tion " to the marshal . On that side my condemnation is already sure . But there is another element . 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 ...
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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.