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Page 66
... jury returned with a verdict of guilty of manslaughter only , and a punishment of two years in the State Penitentiary . English was pardoned by the Governor before he reached the prison . To a young student like myself ( only twenty ...
... jury returned with a verdict of guilty of manslaughter only , and a punishment of two years in the State Penitentiary . English was pardoned by the Governor before he reached the prison . To a young student like myself ( only twenty ...
Page 67
... jury lawyer . " In the course of the trial a young doctor was intro- duced as a witness to testify as to the ailments of the negro . He used such technical language that neither the Court , jury nor lawyers knew any more about what was ...
... jury lawyer . " In the course of the trial a young doctor was intro- duced as a witness to testify as to the ailments of the negro . He used such technical language that neither the Court , jury nor lawyers knew any more about what was ...
Page 71
... jury to inquire into the death of Giles , and to indict those who had caused it . The grand jury met but failed to return an indictment , not because the murderers were unknown , but simply because they were pro - slavery men and ...
... jury to inquire into the death of Giles , and to indict those who had caused it . The grand jury met but failed to return an indictment , not because the murderers were unknown , but simply because they were pro - slavery men and ...
Page 74
... Jury for enticing and attempting to entice a negro man belonging to John McCormick of Ashley , Pike County , to leave his master and seek freedom in Canada . The defendant was poor and unable to em- ploy a lawyer , and the Judge ...
... Jury for enticing and attempting to entice a negro man belonging to John McCormick of Ashley , Pike County , to leave his master and seek freedom in Canada . The defendant was poor and unable to em- ploy a lawyer , and the Judge ...
Page 75
... jury that might be chosen . I did the very best I could , but the jury found him guilty and fixed his punishment in the penitentiary at five years . A good friend of mine by the name of Johnson Hendrick lived in the neighborhood and was ...
... jury that might be chosen . I did the very best I could , but the jury found him guilty and fixed his punishment in the penitentiary at five years . A good friend of mine by the name of Johnson Hendrick lived in the neighborhood and was ...
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Page 38 - And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now : for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Page 319 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — .left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 38 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straight way out of the water : and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him : and, lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 38 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 319 - It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims.
Page 233 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 233 - ... they shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than ten years; and shall, moreover, be thereafter ineligible to any office, or place of honor, profit, or trust created by the constitution or laws of the United States.
Page 319 - It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to say that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are all subject.
Page 233 - ... the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured, they shall be fined not more than...
Page 72 - His justice can not sleep forever," were words of despair. It was the desire of Washington's heart that Virginia should remove slavery by a public act; and as the prospects of a general emancipation grew more and more dim, he, in utter hopelessness of the action of the State, did all that he could by bequeathing freedom to his own slaves. Good and true men had, from the days of...