Transcriber's Note: A [table of contents] has been added for the reader's convenience. Errors listed in the [Errata] section are linked to that section, and a pop-up correction has been provided. Other obvious printer errors have been corrected without note.
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,
BY
THEODORE PARKER,
MINISTER OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY IN BOSTON.
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.
CONTENTS
[PREFACE]
[INTRODUCTION]
[DEFENCE]
[ERRATA]
[OTHER WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR]
TO
JOHN PARKER HALE
AND
CHARLES MAYO ELLIS,
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.