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

[126] Burnet's Own Times, 470. See also 2 Campbell, Justices, 89, et seq.

[127] 18 St. Tr. 1203; 14 Parl. Hist. 888, 1063; 3 Hallam, 200; 2 Campbell, Justices, 198.

[128] 20 St. Tr. 803, 895, 869; Woodfall's Junius (Bohn, 1850), Preface, p. 94, Appendix, p. 471; 2 Campbell, Justices, 363; 5 Mahon.

[129] 22 St. Tr. 923.

[130] 2 St. Tr. 1793.

[131] 22 St. Tr. 523.—So late as 1820, the chief justice punished an editor with a fine of £500, for publishing an account of a trial for high treason. See 33 St. Tr. 1564, also 22 St. Tr. 298; 2 Campbell, Justices, 363, 371 et al.

[132] 22 St. Tr. 471.

[133] Ibid. 823.

[134] Ib. 909.

[135] Ibid. 471. Wade, Brit. Hist. (1847), 582, et seq.