Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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184 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.intent to excite the hatred and contempt of the people of thiscountry against the man of their choice.It was much to be lamented that every person who had &tolerable facility at writing should think he had…
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THOMAS COOPER. 785them the confidence of the people, so necessary for conductingthe public business, was in direct opposition to the duties ofa good citizen, Mischiefs of this kind were to be dreaded inproportion as the country around is less informed,…
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786 X¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.motives a foul and infamous libel on the character of thePresident; of exciting against him the hatred and contempt ofthe people of this country, by gross and malicious falsehoods—-then, indeed, would it be his duty to…
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THOMAS COOPER. 787the other too little, influence on the measures of government.‘The one is friendly, the other hostile, to a standing army anda permanent navy. The one thinks them necessary to repelinvasions and aggressions from without, and eommotion with-in; the…
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788 ZX. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.alluded to in the indictment, you will reverence as you oughtthe sacred obligation of the oath you have taken.Gentlemen of the jury, I acknowledge, as freely as any ofyou can, the neceasity of a certain degree…
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THOMAS COOPER. 789close all the avenues of information, and throw a veil overthe grossest misconduct of our periodical rulers?After having offered these preliminary remarks, I shall givean account of the paper on which I am accused, and thenproceed to examine…
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790 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.tioned in this paper, and which, as yon will have it beforeyou when you retire, I shall not read at length. This applica-tion was from one friend to-another; upon the face of it aeonfidential communeation; although…
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THOMAS COOPER. 791may it be seditious to say he is mistaken; but before you cancondemn me for this kind of sedition, you must becomeeatholie believers in this new-fangled doctrine of infallibility.I know that in England the king can do no…
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792 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.another, in a form more portable and convenient, purportingto be a selection of addresses and answers to and from thePresident during the summer of 1798, Not having been ableto procure office copies of the documents I…
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THOMAS COOPER, 793and where there is no reasonable suspicion or assignable mo-tive why the publications I offer should misrepresent thetransactions I allude to, the probability ia in favor of theiraccuracy; especially when the printera of them are severelypunishable for wilful…
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704 X¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Gentlemen, if the assertions I have made are true, what-ever the motives of them may be, you cannot find me guilty.But I think it impossible, if you consider the paper altogether,that you can ascribe the publication…
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THOMAS COOPER. 795af the good people of this country. In the act which definesthis offense and points out the punishment, a liberality of de-fense is given, unknown, I believe, in any other country wherethe party is tried for a libel…
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794 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Gentlemen, if the assertions I have made are true, what-ever the motives of them may be, you cannot find me guilty.But I think it impossible, if yon consider the paper altogether,that you can aseribe the publication…
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THOMAS COOPER. 795of the good people of this country. In the act which definesthis offense and points out the punishment, a liberality of de-fense is given, unknown, I believe, in any other country wherethe party is tried for a libel…
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794 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Gentlemen, if the assertions I have made are true, what-ever the motives of them may be, you cannot find me guilty.But I think it impossible, if you consider the paper altogether,that you can ascribe the publication…
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THOMAS COOPER. 795of the good people of this country. In the act which definesthis offense and points out the punishment, a liberality of de-fense is given, unknown, I believe, in any other country wherethe party is tried for a libel…
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794 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Gentlemen, if the assertions I have made are true, what-ever the motives of them may be, you cannot find me guilty.But I think it impossible, if you consider the paper altogether,that you can ascribe the publication…
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THOMAS COOPER. 795of the good people of this country. In the act which definesthis offense and points out the punishment, a liberality of de-fense is given, unknown, I believe, in any other country wherethe party is tried for a libel…
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794 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Gentlemen, if the assertions I have made are true, what-ever the motives of them may be, you cannot find me guilty.But I think it impossible, if you consider the paper altogether,that you can aseribe the publication…
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THOMAS COOPER. 795of the good people of this country. In the act which definesthis offense and points out the punishment, a liberality of de-fense is given, unknown, I believe, in any other country wherethe party is tried for a libel…
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796 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.evincing in the clearest manner 4 settled design to persuadethe public that the President of the United States is not fitfor the high office he bears, and of this you must be fullyconvinced from the whole…
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THOMAS COOPER. "797and selected the passages on which his defense has beengrounded. Throughout the quotations he has made, par-ticularly from the addresses to the President, and the an-swers to them, there has been a series of misrepresentations,which it will be…
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798 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.meant 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 such a justifica-tion as will entitle him te your verdict…
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THOMAS COOPER. 799libels against themselves. If a man attempts to destroy theconfidence of the people in their officers, their supreme magia-trate, and their legislature, he effectually saps the founda-tion of the government. A republican government can onlybe destroyed in two…
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800 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.import of the publication, sinee the offense is committed bythe two coupled together.First, then, as to the publication.The fact of writing and publishing is clearly proved; nay,in fact, it is not denied. It is proved to…
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THOMAS COOPER. 801ties of his high station, and unfit for the important office towhich the people have elected him. The motives and intentof the traverser, not of the President, are the subject to beinquired into by you.Now we will consider…
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802 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.tlemen, again, if you believe this, what opinion can you formof the President? Certainly the worst you can form. Youwould certainly consider him totally unfit for the high stationwhich he has s0 honorably filled, and with…
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THOMAS COOPER. "$08from: an interference without precedent, against law andagainst mercy. Ia not this an attack and @ most serious at-tack on the character of the President?The traverser goes on thus—‘‘This melancholy case ofJonathan Robbins, 2 native of America, forcibly…
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804 ¢ X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.liberties. They ahould be under no influence—they are onlyaccountable to God and their own consciencea—your presentjudges are in that situation.There is a little circumstance which the Attorney General,in his observations to you, omitted to state,…
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THOMAS COOPER. 805eountries of the other, provided this ghall be done only onsuch evidence of criminality as, aecording to the laws of theplace where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found,would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial,…