Legal arguments and speeches to the jury, diplomatic and official papers, and miscellaneous lettersC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 - United States |
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... transactions on the 2d of April is corroborated by Allen , and by Osborn's books . He says that Frank Knapp came there in the afternoon , and again in the evening . So the book shows . He says that Captain White had gone out to his farm ...
... transactions on the 2d of April is corroborated by Allen , and by Osborn's books . He says that Frank Knapp came there in the afternoon , and again in the evening . So the book shows . He says that Captain White had gone out to his farm ...
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... most certainly knew to be innocent . Could they have adopted a more direct method of exposing their own infamy ? The letter to the committee has intrinsic marks of a knowledge of this transaction . THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE . 69.
... most certainly knew to be innocent . Could they have adopted a more direct method of exposing their own infamy ? The letter to the committee has intrinsic marks of a knowledge of this transaction . THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE . 69.
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Daniel Webster. has intrinsic marks of a knowledge of this transaction . It tells the time and the manner in which the murder was committed . Every line speaks the writer's condemnation . In attempting to divert attention from his family ...
Daniel Webster. has intrinsic marks of a knowledge of this transaction . It tells the time and the manner in which the murder was committed . Every line speaks the writer's condemnation . In attempting to divert attention from his family ...
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... transaction , to leave a particle of doubt on the mind of any one , that Frank Knapp knew the murder was to be committed this night . The hour was come , and he knew it ; if so , and he was in Brown Street , without explaining why he ...
... transaction , to leave a particle of doubt on the mind of any one , that Frank Knapp knew the murder was to be committed this night . The hour was come , and he knew it ; if so , and he was in Brown Street , without explaining why he ...
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... transaction . This must be mainly decided by their own opinion who selected the place ; by what they thought at the time , according to their plan of operation . If it was agreed that the prisoner should be there to assist , it is ...
... transaction . This must be mainly decided by their own opinion who selected the place ; by what they thought at the time , according to their plan of operation . If it was agreed that the prisoner should be there to assist , it is ...
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Page 548 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
Page 547 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Page 588 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 364 - ... upon such evidence of Criminality, as according to the Laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 110 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions, as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 54 - The secret which the murderer possesses soon comes to possess him ; and, like the evil spirits of which we read, it overcomes him, and leads him whithersoever it will. He feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts.
Page 296 - Government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.
Page 365 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 573 - It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Page 177 - I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.