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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... meeting , which Dr. Samuel G. Howe called to order . Speeches were made and Resolutions passed . Mr. Phillips and Mr. Parker , amongst others , addressed the meeting ; Mr. Parker's speech , as reported and published in the newspapers ...
... meeting , which Dr. Samuel G. Howe called to order . Speeches were made and Resolutions passed . Mr. Phillips and Mr. Parker , amongst others , addressed the meeting ; Mr. Parker's speech , as reported and published in the newspapers ...
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... Meeting - houses will be shut ; all court houses have a loaded cannon at their door , chains all round them , be stuffed with foreign soldiers inside , while commissioners swear away the life , the liberty , and even the Estate of the ...
... Meeting - houses will be shut ; all court houses have a loaded cannon at their door , chains all round them , be stuffed with foreign soldiers inside , while commissioners swear away the life , the liberty , and even the Estate of the ...
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... meeting was summoned at Faneuil Hall , and Boston answered , " Yes , here is the chain . Let the woman - hunter capture Ellen Craft , make her a Prostitute at New Orleans . She is a virtuous wife and mother , - but no matter . Slavery ...
... meeting was summoned at Faneuil Hall , and Boston answered , " Yes , here is the chain . Let the woman - hunter capture Ellen Craft , make her a Prostitute at New Orleans . She is a virtuous wife and mother , - but no matter . Slavery ...
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... meeting of the parlia- ment . [ At which some people in the court hissed . ] 66 ' If the king will impose upon a man what he cannot do , he must acquiesce ; but shall he come and fly in the face of his prince ? Shall he say it is ...
... meeting of the parlia- ment . [ At which some people in the court hissed . ] 66 ' If the king will impose upon a man what he cannot do , he must acquiesce ; but shall he come and fly in the face of his prince ? Shall he say it is ...
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... meeting in a year , and no " deliberation " at that ; no " agitation , " no discussion of grievances . There must be no preaching on the acts of the government . Rev. Dr. Increase Mather , one of the ablest men in the Colonies , was the ...
... meeting in a year , and no " deliberation " at that ; no " agitation , " no discussion of grievances . There must be no preaching on the acts of the government . Rev. Dr. Increase Mather , one of the ablest men in the Colonies , was the ...
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Página 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.
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 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 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,
Página 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.
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 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.
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.