Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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754 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.such grounds as these. Gentlemen, there never was such 8ease of piracy since the beginning of time. And is it a faetthat Quentin did not know that the log-book or any of thepapers were missing! Doubtless…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. TSBbility of the Panda falling in with the Mexican, and read tothe jury a table of calculations, which he had made, for thepurpose of showing that the schooner must have been greatlyahead of the brig at…
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156 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.tion. The labors of this case have been unexampled. We canfind no parallel to them in the history of judicial proceedingsof this country. None of us have aa yet, however, broke downunder them, although many times…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 757instruct them in matters of right; they have had counsel oftheir own selection; they have had the privilege of choosingtheir own jury, from a large number of citizens collected fromall parts of the vicinity (and if…
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‘758 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.But, gentlemen, all the indulgences I have enumerated have -been granted, not to facilitate the escape of guilt, but to af-ford protection to the innocent; else were our laws a mock-ery, and our courts of justice…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 759on the 20th or 26th of Angust, commanded by Captain Gi-bert, and manned by a crew, part of whom were the prisoners at the bar. All this was undeniable; it was proved bythe Custom House documents,…
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760 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Diack, with a white streak, that she had two small guns, andsomething like a gun covered up amidships, and that she wasabout one hundred and fifty tons burthen. With respect tothe latter item (the amount of…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 761Mexican and that given by Perez. The mate of the Mexicansays that the pirates took from them some spars, butter andfowls, and Perez makes the same statements from his obser-vation while in the maintop of the…
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762 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.not at the time she was taken, And whst became of themafter they left the vessel? Why they sought refuge amongthe negroes and in the forest. How different was the conduetof the Portuguese, who shipped at…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 763said previously that he could not read, and that in contradic-tion of that assertion he did read in court, this ciroumstancewould be one of the strongest proofs that he had testifiedtruly. It would prove that however…
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764 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,lantry with which they, upon all oecasions, risked their livesin behalf of the general weal.November 24.JUDGE STORY'S CHARGE.Jupaz Story, Gentlemen: This important and protractedease is now, I hope, drawing to a close. As regards its dura-tion…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 765Many things, said Jupar Story, had been brought into thepresent case which he regretted; but the counsel for the de-fense had undoubtedly done right in omitting nothing ‘thatmight have oceurred to their minds as likely to…
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766 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.could we support our claims to property, or claims of anyother kind, but by human testimony? The only purpose forwhich these cases ought ever to be called before a jury was inthe way of caution ;…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 167have been heard in England. Let them look, too, at the con-duet of Capt. Trotter. He was an officer of the British navy,stationed on the coast of Africa, with directions to use hisexertions in suppressing the…
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768 &X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.tried here with reference to it. Suggestions had been thrownout, and questions asked, as to whether money had not beendivided among the crew of the Curlew. This question no per-son could misunderstand for a moment. Now…
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PEDEO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 769tempted to be destroyed by fire. It was obvious that the in-dividuals, whoever they were, after committing the robbery,had resolved upon consummating their erime by the sacri-fice of every one of the crew, by the murder…
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770 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.American passed by the sufferers, the Spaniard stopped andsaved them. But the prisoner’s guilt must outweigh allthese considerations, We cannot dispense mercy. That isthe attribute of a higher power. You and I, gentlemen, arebound to do…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. Tityears by more than one or two of the Southern States. Con-gresa could do uo more than it did at the time of the forma-tion of the Constitution. They wished to have prohibited thetraffle at once,…
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772 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.The Clerk. Jurors look upon the prisoner; prisoner lookupon the jurors. How say, you, gentlemen, is the prisonerat the bar, Pedro Gibert, guilty or not guilty.The Foreman, Guilty.The same verdict was pronounced against De Soto (themate),…
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PEDEO GIBERL? AND OTHERS. T13THE EXECUTION.“Delargo committed suicide in Salem Jail before the trial. . . .After the conviction, Da Soto, the first mate, through the interces-sion of Mrs, David Lee Child, the wife of the counsel, was par-doned. A…
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THE TRIAL OF THOMAS COOPER FORSEDITIOUS LIBEL, PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA, 1800.THE NARRATIVE.‘Thomas Cooper* was an Englishman, who had inherited& good fortune, had been bred to the bar, but had spentmore time experimenting with acids and gases than in per-using law books or…
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THOMAS COOPER. 715drifted to metaphysics, from metaphysies he passed to pol-ities, and in polities made himself so unpopular in Englandthat he emigrated to the United States. Here he began thepractice of law, but, though an earnest Republican, a scholarand a…
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776 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.James Priestley’ suggested to him to apply for the place.The objections were raised that he waa not a native, and‘was not of the President’s political views. Dr. Priestleythought such objections of little moment. For, said he,…
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THOMAS COOPER. 777asked if this editor who was attacking the President wasthe same Thomas Cooper who once sought office of the manhe now reviled. Cooper replied that he was the same manand could see nothing improper in what he had…
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778 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.THE TRIAL!In the United States Circuit Court, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-venta, 1800.Hoy, Samven CHaAsE,?Hoy. Ricnasp Prress,? \ sadgosApril it.An indictment had been found against Thomas Cooperunder the Sedition Act which made it a erime to be punishedby fine…
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THOMAS COOPER. 779interfered, as President of the United States, to influence the deci-sions of a court of justice—a streteh of authority ‘which the mon-arch of Great Britain would have shrunk from—an interferencewithout precedent, against Iaw and against merey. This melan-choly…
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780 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.and Dr. Priestley exerted his influence in dispersing this very ad-dress, which he must know was the offspring of disappointment andrevenge!The address is as eunning and insidious a production as everappeared in the Aurora or the…
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THOMAS COOPER. 781ing Dr. Priestley to take eare that Mr. Adams should not mistakemy polities. In eonsequence of this conversation, Dr. Priestley‘wrote the following letter; not a few months, but above two yearsago.August 12, 1797.Dear Sir:—-It was far from being…
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782 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Is this the letter of a man or not? I do not appeal to the cow-ardly propagator of anonymous falsehoods, but to the public. Whatia there in it of vanity or servility? Do not these letters…
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THOMAS COOPER. 783country. A ease too little known, but of which the people ought to befully apprised before the election, and they shall be.‘Most assuredly, had these transactions taken place in August,1797, then President Adams would uot bave been troubled…