Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns: Containing the Report of the Faneuil Hall Meeting; the Murder of Batchelder; Theodore Parker's Lesson for the Day; Speeches of Counsel on Both Sides, Corrected by Themselves; a Verbatim Report of Judge Loring's Decision; and Detailed Account of the Embarkation |
Common terms and phrases
Alexandria Anthony Burns arrested Artillery asked Batchelder Boston Light Brent called Capt certificate City Hall claim claimant Colonel Suttle colored Commissioner Constitution counsel Court House court room Court Square Court street crowd Dana day of March defence delay duty Edmands Edward G Ellis escape evidence examination excitement fact Faneuil Hall FETRIDGE AND COMPANY force freedom Friday Fugitive Slave Bill Guards half past hand Honor identity James Batchelder Jones judicial jury justice kidnapping knew liberty Loring Massachusetts Mattapan matter Mayor Millspaugh morning murder night o'clock objected officers owes service Parker peace persons police prisoner proceedings proof proved question reason recollect record remember Richmond ROBERT COWDIN Saturday saw Burns scar service and labor slave power slavery South Boston Stafford County statute Suttle's testimony Theodore Parker thing to-day trial United States Marshal United States troops Virginia watch house Wendell Phillips witness Worcester yesterday
Popular passages
Page 52 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Page 62 - I congratulate her that at length in due time, by leave of the marshal of the United States, and the district attorney of the United States, first had and obtained therefor, her courts may be reopened, and her judges, suitors and witnesses may pass and repass without being obliged to satisfy hirelings of the United States marshal and bayoneted foreigners, clothed in the uniform of our army and navy, that they have a right to be there. I congratulate the city of Boston that her peace here is no longer...
Page 63 - ... is entitled to have, justice according to law; for it is better that nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be unjustly punished; and the criminal lawyer has a right to demand that the entire truth shall be presented in the facts, and that after this has been done, his client, if convicted at all...
Page 6 - Virginia, if he may be found in your precinct, and have him forthwith before me, Edward G. Loring, one of the Commissioners of the Circuit Court of the United States for the said District, then and there to answer to the complaint of Charles F. Suttle, of Alexandria in the said State of Virginia, merchant, alleging, under oath, that the said Anthony Burns, on the twenty-fourth day of March last, did, and for a long time prior thereto had owed service and labor to him, the said Suttle, in the State...
Page 6 - Massachusetts ; and that the said Burns still owes service and labor to said Suttle in the said State of Virginia, and praying that said Burns may be restored to him said Suttle in said State of Virginia, and that such further proceedings may then and there be had in the premises as are by law in such cases provided. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this writ, with your doings therein before me.
Page 6 - I rise to address the court as amicus curiae, for I cannot say that I am regularly of counsel for the person at the bar. Indeed, from the few words I have been enabled to hold with him, and from what I can learn from others who have talked with him, I am satisfied that he is not in a condition to determine whether he will have counsel or not, or whether or not and how he shall appear for his defense.