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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... counsel place themselves in the situation of their client , and just to the degree that they absorb his feeling , his terror , and his purpose , just so far will counsel do the same . I am well aware , gentlemen , of the difficulties ...
... counsel place themselves in the situation of their client , and just to the degree that they absorb his feeling , his terror , and his purpose , just so far will counsel do the same . I am well aware , gentlemen , of the difficulties ...
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... counsel upon the other side , but I am not here for that purpose . The counsel are not witnesses in the cause . We have come here for the purpose of ascertaining whether under the law and on the evidence presented , this man arraigned ...
... counsel upon the other side , but I am not here for that purpose . The counsel are not witnesses in the cause . We have come here for the purpose of ascertaining whether under the law and on the evidence presented , this man arraigned ...
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... counsel denounced the military commission who tried her , and thus indirectly censured , in the severest manner , the President of the United States . The counsel certainly knew when they were talking about that tribunal , and when they ...
... counsel denounced the military commission who tried her , and thus indirectly censured , in the severest manner , the President of the United States . The counsel certainly knew when they were talking about that tribunal , and when they ...
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... counsel have said , that God is a God of mercy ; but He says : " Though I am a God of mercy , I will by no means clear the guilty . " Now , the counsel who has addressed you , you will remember , said in his speech , with great earnest ...
... counsel have said , that God is a God of mercy ; but He says : " Though I am a God of mercy , I will by no means clear the guilty . " Now , the counsel who has addressed you , you will remember , said in his speech , with great earnest ...
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... counsel must have be- lieved it , or he would not have made it . But he is wholly mistaken . No court in the United States has declared this commission to have been illegal . There is no such decision on record — not any . Some of those ...
... counsel must have be- lieved it , or he would not have made it . But he is wholly mistaken . No court in the United States has declared this commission to have been illegal . There is no such decision on record — not any . Some of those ...
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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.