A Speech Delivered Before the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, in Defence of Abner Kneeland, on an Indictment for Blasphemy: January Term, 1834 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Speech Delivered Before the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, in Defence of Abner Kneeland, on an Indictment for Blasphemy: January Term, 1834

Gentlemen. There are two general grounds of defence, and they will be now plainly stated. It will be contended that the case is not within the Statute, on which the indictment is founded, and that the Statute is in violation of the letter and spirit of the Constitution.

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