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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... slaves , have Unity of pecuniary Interest — the support of Slavery as a local measure , - for it is the source of their material wealth , and also a consequent Unity of political Idea , the support of Slavery as a universal Principle ...
... slaves , have Unity of pecuniary Interest — the support of Slavery as a local measure , - for it is the source of their material wealth , and also a consequent Unity of political Idea , the support of Slavery as a universal Principle ...
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... Slavery . And hitherto these great cities have controlled the politics of the Northern States , crowd- ing the Apostles of Freedom out from the national board , and helping the party of slavery to triumph in all great battles . Thus ...
... Slavery . And hitherto these great cities have controlled the politics of the Northern States , crowd- ing the Apostles of Freedom out from the national board , and helping the party of slavery to triumph in all great battles . Thus ...
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... slavery became the obvious and acknowledged master in the Federal Territory , marched victorious over the Mississippi , planted itself in Missouri , and has subse- quently taken possession of Mississippi , Alabama and Arkansas , all ...
... slavery became the obvious and acknowledged master in the Federal Territory , marched victorious over the Mississippi , planted itself in Missouri , and has subse- quently taken possession of Mississippi , Alabama and Arkansas , all ...
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... Slavery ; " sow political dissensions , " — ad- vise men not to vote for corrupt tools of the government ; " set at defiance the laws of the land , " meaning the fugitive slave bill which commands kidnapping . - There belong the ...
... Slavery ; " sow political dissensions , " — ad- vise men not to vote for corrupt tools of the government ; " set at defiance the laws of the land , " meaning the fugitive slave bill which commands kidnapping . - There belong the ...
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... Slavery ! No , Boston could not bewray a woman wandering towards freedom , without chaining the court house and its judges , putting the town in a state of siege , -in- solent soldiers striking at the people's neck . Now the attempt is ...
... Slavery ! No , Boston could not bewray a woman wandering towards freedom , without chaining the court house and its judges , putting the town in a state of siege , -in- solent soldiers striking at the people's neck . Now the attempt is ...
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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.