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, 1855, with the Defence

BOSTON: PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1855.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by THEODORE PARKER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
CAMBRIDGE: ALLEN AND FARNHAM, PRINTERS.
MAGNANIMOUS LAWYERS,
FOR THEIR LABORS IN A NOBLE PROFESSION,
WHICH HAVING ONCE IN ENGLAND ITS KELYNG, ITS SAUNDERS, ITS JEFFREYS, AND ITS SCROGGS, AS NOW IN AMERICA ITS SHARKEY, ITS GRIER, ITS CURTIS, AND ITS KANE, HAS YET ALSO SUCH GENEROUS ADVOCATES OF HUMANITY AS EQUAL THE GLORIES OF HOLT AND ERSKINE, OF MACKINTOSH AND ROMILLY,
FOR THEIR ELOQUENT AND FEARLESS DEFENCE OF TRUTH, RIGHT, AND LOVE,
THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED,
BY THEIR CLIENT AND FRIEND,
THEODORE PARKER.

Fellow-Citizens and Friends,—