 | 1859 - 522 pages
...death should not be pronounced upon him, he immediately rose, and, in a clear, distinct voice, said : " I have, may it please the Court, a " few words to...of a design on my " part to free slaves. I intended cer" tainly to have made a clean thing of " that matter, as I did last winter when " I went into Missouri,... | |
 | John Gregory - Brown - 1860 - 102 pages
...extort an act of emancipation. Let the following extract from his speech in court speak for itself: "I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say....deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter,... | |
 | Richard Davis Webb - 1861 - 480 pages
...same time, and hence he had not expected to be sentenced so soon. His address was as follows : — " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say....deny everything but what I have all along, admitted — the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clear thing of that... | |
 | John Brown - Abolitionists - 1861 - 486 pages
...same time, and hence he had not expected to be sentenced so soon. His address was as follows : — " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say....deny everything but what I have all along admitted — the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clear thing of that... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 782 pages
...pronounced upon him. BROWN'S SPEECH. Mr. Brown immediately rose, and in a clear, distinct voice, said: 'I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny every thing but what I have all along admitted, of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended,... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 792 pages
...BROWN'S IPIBCH. Mr. Brown immediately rose, and in a clear, distinct voice, said : 'I have, may it pleať the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny every thing but what I have all along admitted, of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended,... | |
 | James William Massie - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 134 pages
...version as before the bar of the Supreme Judge, and in it the knell of slavery was sounded : — " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say....deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clear thing of that matter,... | |
 | James William Massie - Slavery - 1864 - 534 pages
...version as before the bar of the Supreme Judge, and in it the knell of slavery was sounded : — " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place I deny everything bat what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...1859, Captain Brown was brought into Court to receive the sentence of death. Here is his last speech : "I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say....place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted—the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clear thing... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 pages
...hands resting on the table, and, in a voice singularly mild and gentle, said, among other things : "In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted — the design on my part to free the slavesť intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that... | |
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I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, — the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last... 
