 | 1859 - 748 pages
...see his moral portrait ? read his speech just before sentence of death was passed upon him : — ' I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say....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
...death should not be pronounced upon him, he immediately rose, and, in a clear, distinct voice, said : " I have, may it please the Court, a " few words to...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... | |
 | Robert M. De Witt - Abolitionists - 1859 - 146 pages
...upon him. Mr. BROWN immediately 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,...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,... | |
 | John Gregory - Brown - 1860 - 102 pages
...extort an act of emancipation. Let the following extract from his speech in court speak for itself: "I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say....free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter when I went into Missouri, and there took the slaves... | |
 | American Anti-Slavery Society - Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) - 1861 - 352 pages
...rejoice at the heaviest blow their victim was to suffer." We give his brief and noble speech entire. " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say....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... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 782 pages
...pronounced upon him. BROWN'S SPEECH. Mr. Brown immediately 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 every thing but what I have all along admitted, of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended,... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 792 pages
...BROWN'S IPIBCH. Mr. Brown immediately rose, and in a clear, distinct voice, said : 'I have, may it plea» the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny every thing but what I have all along admitted, of a design on my part to free slaves. I intended,... | |
 | Eliza Wigham - Antislavery movements - 1863 - 180 pages
...pronounced upon him, he immediately rose from his mattress, and, in a clear, distinct voice, said, — " I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say....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,... | |
 | James William Massie - Slavery - 1864 - 534 pages
...version as before the bar of the Supreme Judge, and in it the knell of slavery was sounded : — " I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place I deny everything bat what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 pages
...somewhat confused, he spoke gently and tenderly as follows : " In the first place, I deny every thing bnt what I have all along admitted — the design on my...certainly to have made a clear thing of that matter, as 1 did last winter, when I went into Missouri, and there took slaves without the snapping of a gun on... | |
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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, — 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... 
