 I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice,...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 2791906Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...sentence of death was passed upon him : — ' I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter,... | |
 | Robert M. De Witt - Abolitionists - 1859 - 146 pages
...rose, and in a clear, distinct voice, said : " I have, may it plea«e the Court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter,... | |
 | 1859 - 522 pages
...rose, and, in a clear, distinct voice, said : " I have, may it please the Court, a " few words to say. In the first place, " I deny everything but what I have " all along admitted of a design on my " part to free slaves. I intended cer" tainly to have made a clean thing of " that... | |
 | John Gregory - Brown - 1860 - 102 pages
...extract from his speech in court speak for itself: "I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have...admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter when I went into... | |
 | James Redpath - Abolitionists - 1860 - 456 pages
...SPEECH. " I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. " In the first place, I deny every thing but what I have all along admitted — the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clear thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into... | |
 | John Brown - Abolitionists - 1861 - 486 pages
...sentenced so soon. His address was as follows : — " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have...admitted — the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clear thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into... | |
 | Richard Davis Webb - 1861 - 480 pages
...sentenced so soon. His address was as follows : — " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have...admitted — the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clear thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 782 pages
...in behalf of His despised poor, is no wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country, whose... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 792 pages
...in behalf of His despised poor, is no wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country, whose... | |
 | American Anti-Slavery Society - Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) - 1861 - 352 pages
...suffer." We give his brief and noble speech entire. " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have, all along, admitted, of a design, on my part, to free Slaves. I intended, certainly, to have made a clean thing of that... | |
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