 | 1859 - 748 pages
...speech just before 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 - 1859 - 146 pages
...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, 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
...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 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 - 1860 - 102 pages
...following 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...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 - 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 - 1861 - 486 pages
...to be 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...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
...to be 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...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... | |
 | American Anti-Slavery Society - 1861 - 352 pages
...was to 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... | |
 | Eliza Wigham - 1863 - 188 pages
...from his mattress, 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 certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter,... | |
 | James William Massie - 1864 - 134 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
