 | United States - 1906 - 794 pages
...should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, * * * in behalf of the rich, powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or...this interference, it would have been all right; and c\ery man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. This court... | |
 | Charles Edgar Prather - Orators - 1908 - 314 pages
...believe that to have interfered as I have in behalf of His'despised poor was not wrong, but right. Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the so-called great, every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1909 - 428 pages
...admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case), had I so interfered in behalf of the rich,...so.called great or in behalf of any of their friends, father, mother, brother, sister or wife or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 446 pages
...What magnanimity, and what innocent pleading, as of childhood ! You remember his words : " If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or any of their friends, parents, wives, or children, it would all have been right. But I believe that... | |
 | Oswald Garrison Villard - Abolitionists - 1910 - 810 pages
...admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case — had I so interfered in behalf of the rich,...in this interference, it would have been all right. Every man in this Court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. "This... | |
 | Readers - 1912 - 462 pages
...admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case) — had I so interfered in behalf of the rich,...class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in that interference, it would have been all right, and every man in this court would have deemed it an... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1913 - 626 pages
...behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or of any of their friends ... or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have i8S9] FREEDOM'S CHAMPION 241 The Resistance to Slavery. It is the old mistake of the slaveholder to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Authors, American - 1913 - 630 pages
...I have another objection ; and that is that it is unjust that I shall suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered ... in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or of any of their friends ... or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference,... | |
 | Law - 1915 - 524 pages
...candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case,) had I so interferred in behalf of the rich., the powerful, the intelligent,...so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends, father, mother, brother, sister, or wife or children, or any of that class, and suffered and sacrificed... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Public lands - 1916 - 444 pages
...or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion or to make insurrection. Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent . . . every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.... | |
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I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case) — had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends, either... 
