I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case) — had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends, either... The Public Life of Capt. John Brown - Page 327by James Redpath - 1860 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States - 1906 - 794 pages
...should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, * * * in behalf of the rich, powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or...this interference, it would have been all right; and c\ery man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. This court... | |
| Charles Edgar Prather - Orators - 1908 - 314 pages
...believe that to have interfered as I have in behalf of His'despised poor was not wrong, but right. Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the so-called great, every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.... | |
| Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1909 - 428 pages
...fairly proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case), had I so interfered in behalf...so.called great or in behalf of any of their friends, father, mother, brother, sister or wife or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 446 pages
...What magnanimity, and what innocent pleading, as of childhood ! You remember his words : " If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or any of their friends, parents, wives, or children, it would all have been right. But I believe that... | |
| Oswald Garrison Villard - Biography & Autobiography - 1910 - 802 pages
...proved — for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case — had I so interfered in...in this interference, it would have been all right. Every man in this Court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. "This... | |
| Readers - 1912 - 462 pages
...fully proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case) — had I so interfered in...class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in that interference, it would have been all right, and every man in this court would have deemed it an... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1913 - 626 pages
...behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or of any of their friends ... or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have i8S9] FREEDOM'S CHAMPION 241 The Resistance to Slavery. It is the old mistake of the slaveholder to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Authors, American - 1913 - 630 pages
...I have another objection ; and that is that it is unjust that I shall suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered ... in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or of any of their friends ... or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference,... | |
| Law - 1915 - 524 pages
...candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case,) had I so interferred in behalf of the rich., the powerful, the intelligent,...so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends, father, mother, brother, sister, or wife or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed... | |
| Marion Mills Miller - Public lands - 1916 - 444 pages
...or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion or to make insurrection. Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent . . . every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.... | |
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