The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the DefenceParker, Theodore
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The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence
Parker, Theodore
Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts -- Boston; United States -- Fugitive slave law (1850)
U.S. OF AMERICA, DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS.
_Boston, May 25_, 1854.
And now the hearing of this case being adjourned to
Saturday, May 27, 1854, 10 A.M., the said Marshal, who has
made return of this warrant, is hereby ordered to retain the
said Anthony Burns in his custody, and have him before me at
the time last mentioned, at the Court House in Boston, for
the further hearing of the Complaint on which the warrant
was issued.
EDWARD G. LORING, _Commissioner_.
And the Jurors aforesaid do further present, that on the
twenty-sixth day of May, in the year aforesaid, in pursuance
of the warrant and legal process aforesaid, and of said
further legal process and order last mentioned, the said
Watson Freeman, Marshal as aforesaid, then and there, at the
said Court House in said Boston, had in his custody the
person of the said Anthony Burns, in the due and lawful
execution of the said warrant and legal process, and of the
said further legal process and order, in manner and form as
he was therein commanded--and one Theodore Parker, of
Boston, in said District, Clerk, then and there well knowing
the premises, with force and arms did knowingly and wilfully
obstruct, resist, and oppose the said Watson Freeman, then
and there being an officer of the said United States, to
wit, Marshal of the said District, in serving and attempting
to serve and execute the said warrant and legal process, and
the said further legal process and order in manner and form
as he was therein commanded, to the great damage of the said
Watson Freeman, to the great hinderance and obstruction of
Justice, to the evil example of all others, in like case
offending, against the peace and dignity of the said United
States, and contrary to the form of the Statute in such case
made and provided.
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