Argument of Hon. Edwards Pierrepont to the Jury: On the Trial of John H. Surratt for the Murder of President LincolnU.S. Government Printing Office, 1867 - 122 páginas |
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... believe , gentlemen , that what you wish to know in this case is the truth . I believe it is your honest desire to find out whether the accused was engaged in this plot to overthrow this government , and assassinate the President of the ...
... believe , gentlemen , that what you wish to know in this case is the truth . I believe it is your honest desire to find out whether the accused was engaged in this plot to overthrow this government , and assassinate the President of the ...
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... believe , or rather ceased to believe , that there was a God who ruled ; that government was of God ; and they ceased to punish great crimes , such as treason , rapine , and murder , and it happened a very short time after they ceased ...
... believe , or rather ceased to believe , that there was a God who ruled ; that government was of God ; and they ceased to punish great crimes , such as treason , rapine , and murder , and it happened a very short time after they ceased ...
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... believe this , but a little observation will show you how true it is . Even the clergy do not teach it as much as they should . You cannot violate a law of God without receiving pun- ishment even on this earth . No man ever did do it ...
... believe this , but a little observation will show you how true it is . Even the clergy do not teach it as much as they should . You cannot violate a law of God without receiving pun- ishment even on this earth . No man ever did do it ...
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... believe , about the handwriting . Gentlemen , here is the handwriting . I will show it to you . Here is the card that nobody denies . They are as much alike as any two things can possibly be . It is his own natural hand , and here 66 66 ...
... believe , about the handwriting . Gentlemen , here is the handwriting . I will show it to you . Here is the card that nobody denies . They are as much alike as any two things can possibly be . It is his own natural hand , and here 66 66 ...
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... believe it now . It is for the very reason that I believe it that I stand here . I have always proclaimed it . I do not stand here , called because I be- longed to the side of the republicans , for , as all know , I never did . The ...
... believe it now . It is for the very reason that I believe it that I stand here . I have always proclaimed it . I do not stand here , called because I be- longed to the side of the republicans , for , as all know , I never did . The ...
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14th of April Abraham Lincoln Amalek Amalekites Ann Jackson asked assassination attention Atzerodt bay horse believe BRADLEY brought buggy called Carlan carriage conceal conversation counsel court crime cross-examination disguise door dressed Elmira evidence examination fact Ford's theatre gentlemen give guilty guns H street hand hear heard Herndon House Herold horse John H John Surratt John Wilkes Booth Julius Cæsar knew letter Lewis Payne Lincoln looked MERRICK minutes Montreal morning murder never night o'clock occurred parlor party passed passengers Payne PIERREPONT Port Tobacco President prisoner prove question ratt recollect remark remember returned Richmond Saul seen Sergeant Dye shaved side stable stand suppose Surratt's house Surrattsville talking Tell the jury testimony theatre things thought told took trial truth turn walked wanted week Weichmann Williamsport witness
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Página 14 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Página 14 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Página 14 - Fondly do we hope— fervently do we pray— that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.
Página 6 - Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Página 14 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 14 - ... but I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
Página 7 - And Saul said, they have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God ; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Página 8 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.
Página 7 - Then he said, I have sinned : yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord thy God.
Página 101 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother ; and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper ? And he said, What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.