Author: Mary Phagan
836 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:The text clearly demonstrates a settled intention to persuade the public that the President of the United States is unfit for the high office he holds. You must be fully convinced of this from…
837 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERThroughout the quotations he has made, particularly from the addresses to the President and the answers to them, there has been a series of misrepresentations. It will be my duty to address these…
838 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:798 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSThe defendant aimed to justify his own conduct and language throughout. You, gentlemen of the jury, under the direction of the court, will decide whether he has presented to you…
839 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERLibels against themselves. If a man attempts to destroy the confidence of the people in their officers, their supreme magistrate, and their legislature, he effectively undermines the foundation of the government. A republican…
840 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:800 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALSThe import of the publication is significant since the offense is committed by the two coupled together.First, let's address the publication.The fact of writing and publishing is clearly proven; in…
841 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERThe duties of his high station render him unfit for the important office to which the people have elected him. The motives and intent of the defendant, not the President, are the subjects…
842 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:Ladies and gentlemen, again, if you believe this, what opinion can you form of the President? Certainly, the worst you can form. You would certainly consider him totally unfit for the high station which…
843 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERFrom: an interference without precedent, against law and against mercy. Is not this an attack and a most serious attack on the character of the President?The traverser goes on thus: "This melancholy case…
844 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:804 ¢ X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Liberties. They should be under no influence—they are only accountable to God and their own consciences—your present judges are in that situation.There is a small circumstance which the Attorney…
845 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPER. 805Countries of the other, provided this shall be done only on such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be…
846 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:No court of justice here has jurisdiction over the crime of murder committed on board a British ship of war. When the British government requested the President to deliver this man up, it became…
847 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERFrance—neither of these can, with any propriety, be called a standing army. In fact, we cannot have a standing army in this country, as the Constitution has expressly declared that no appropriation shall…
848 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:808 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Expressions of attachment and confidence in the President, along with a determination to resist the oppression of the French government, were conveyed through various addresses. The President replied to these…
849 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERUnited States, you must acquit him; if he has proved the truth of the facts asserted by him, you must find him not guilty.THE VERDICT AND SENTENCEThe jury retired and returned with a…
850 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:I am sorry you did not think it proper to make an affidavit regarding your circumstances. You are a perfect stranger to the court, at least to me. I do not know you personally—I…
851 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERYou, the jury, have found otherwise. You are a gentleman of the profession, possessing such capacity and knowledge that it is more within your power to mislead the ignorant. I do not wish…
852 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:B12 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSI have hitherto neither accepted nor rejected the offers. If the court imposes a fine beyond my ability to pay, I shall accept them without hesitation. However, if the fine…
853 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:The Trial of James Thompson Callender for Seditious Libel, Richmond, Virginia, 1800The NarrativeThis was the last of the great trials under the Federal Sedition Act and the most celebrated. The libel was directed against…
854 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:James Callender was a notorious literary hack, whose scurrilous pen was at the service of the highest bidder. To read his book, "The Prospect Before Us," and claim the writer was not guilty of…
855 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDERThe reckless conduct of Judge Chase in the courtroom can only be explained by his awareness that it was to be a struggle to the death between himself and the distinguished lawyers…
856 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:Then Chase grew angry and, as he would have said, took the lawyers in hand. When Mr. Hay argued that Giles' evidence would help determine whether Callender's pamphlet consisted of libelous statements or merely…
857 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDERThe prosecution, having established that the prisoner was the author of "The Prospect Before Us," introduced the entire pamphlet as evidence. The defense protested, arguing that only the sections cited in the…
858 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:818 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSThe defense attempted to take advantage of the existing prejudice against the Sedition Law. However, when Mr. Wirt began to argue against the constitutionality of the law, Judge Chase ordered…
859 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDERJames Thompson Callender was fined two hundred dollars and required to find sureties for good behavior for a period of two years.Five years later, Chase was impeached before the Senate of the…
860 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:The same system of persecution has been extended all over the continent. Every person holding an office must either quit it or think and vote exactly with Mr. Adams. Adams and Washington have since…
861 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDER, 821Twenty-five thousand dollars a year, with the petty parade of his birthday, with the importance of his name sticking in every other page of the statute book. Alas! he is not…
862 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:Mr. Nickolas presented an affidavit made by the prisoner and moved for a continuance. The affidavit alleged that the following persons are material witnesses in his defense: William Gardner of Portsmouth; Tench Coxe of…
863 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDER, 823James Thompson Callender claims that he can prove, through William B. Giles, that the President of the United States has expressed in conversation with him a sentiment to the effect that…
864 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:The Court had declared the evidence of Mr. Giles to be material, not only in express terms but also by a partial postponement, implying that the trial should not proceed until his personal attendance…
865 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:James Thompson CallenderThe second section of the sedition law made falsehood, as well as scandal and malice, an essential part of every libel. By the last sentence, the party accused is allowed to show…