See Mr. Parker's Defence, p. 76, et seq. for further remarks on the Function of the Jury (Boston, 1855).
[15] So it appeared in September, 1851; but since then the whig party has vindicated its claim to the same bad eminence as the democratic party.
[16] The person referred to fled away from Boston, and in one of the British provinces found the protection for his unalienable rights, which could not be allowed him in New England.
[17] This refers to a speech of Mr. Webster, occasioned by the passage of the fugitive slave law.