New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-10

Of he United Ststes to eeize and deliver over %
Slavery pescesbe residents 10 their respecvs Stat g.
without jury and without appeal" Mr. Hilireth
procfeds:
"Hstory If philosophy teaching oy example From
what judges have attempted and have zone IN tinea
past and in f. gland NAY draw some pretty shrewi
conclu Ts as 10 what II Unchecked they may st@m %
and may do in times present scq IN America lie. no
al say thai those biographies rel4,e 70 ancien
ard t0ve parslleism Or but lite 10 t1e pre-
ent safe Of sf1sire among u Lers in America. the
times which they include the times Of the struggle
Greet Biian between the ideas Of free gov-rn Lent
ana attempts at the establishment. Of ce-pOtism aid
that struggle pr csey toe OGe now going among Us
here in America with this sole differences that over the
water among DOR British fOre'ethe;s IL VS. he des
poiism of monarch that WA soug 10 be abl-he
and here in America the despOtlsm OF some 200 0J0
petty tyranis more or le-s 10 the shape Of many
slave holders who not en to Ordng II owe their
several plantations, are now attempting by co nbna-
ton among themselves and by the ala Of body Of
northern tools nercebaes such despos 81 Ways
fId TO lord il over tee Unioa AID to establish the poi
icy Of slsvehOl1Dg az that OF the nation. In Great
Britain the struggle between cespOtsn aud free ios-
tuODs closed with the revolution OF l65s. Since that
time the politics of that country have CONSISTED of
hardly more than jOstings bs;ween the ms AM the
outs " Tia very material variance between them 10
their social ideas. Among US tae great struggle be-
tween slsvebOldug despO'ism ans republican equality
bas but lately con 10 hesd, and yet remains unde-
courts and the la Eyers, many parallels 70 the similar
struggle formerly carried on in Great Bntao. INST
strugl terminated at lat WITH the deposition and
banisbment of the Stuart family, aud te reestabhsn-
rnent in full vsOr Of the ancient Liberties OF Englaod,
as embodied in the Bill of Rights. And so may ours
tcnnse in the reduction Of those who, not being M
tent with being brethren, seek TO be maste =, to the
republican level OF equal and common clhZe ishlJ, and
ia the reesfablsbment Of emanc patton freedom aud
the rights OF man. pro- almed 10 our Declaration of H.
dependence the national and eternal policy OF these
United States!
The following is the title Of Mr. Parker's book:
"TLe Trial If Theodore Parker for the 'Msde-
meaDol Of a Speech in Faneuil Hall agaiust Kid
inspiring before the Circuit Court OF the United States
at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence, by THEo
DoRE PARRfR Minister Of the Twenty-eighth Congre-
gationsl Society in Boston" The occasion Of Mr..
Pakers speech and consequent trial was the rendi-
ton Of Anthony Burns to Slavery in June, 1884. MT.
Parker Wendell Phillips, and others addressed the
people at Faneu ball the evening Of M.y 20, while
the fugitive was still in the custody Of the United
States marshal On the same evening an attack was
made upon the court house where Burns was confaed,
and one Of the marshals men was killed in the affrsy
Mr.. Parker and Mr.. Phillips were subsequently To-
dic'ed for stirring up riot. They were indicted I'M
der charge by Judge Curtis and grand jury
packed for the purpose. We quote from Mr.. Parkers
preface lis account Of what followed:
"At,er my arrsignmen!, made elaborate preoara-
ton fer my defense. | procured able counsel men
needing DO cOmmeDdatioD. TO manage the technical
details which ! knew nothing about and so could
not medcle with, while l took charge of other
matters lying more level to my own capacity. |
thought ii best to take an active part IN my own de-
Tense for the matter at ssue belonged 10 my previous
studies and general business my personal friends and
the people in general seemed to expect TO defend
myself well az ] could.
"a great political revolution took place bt6esn
the JUDGES charge and my arragnnent, Juue 9TH, and
November Goth, 1854, aud tbodsht the court would
not allow The case to come TO open Argument. For
certainly it would rot be very ple8sslt thing for
Judge Spregue eDo Judge Curtis, who have taken
pains TO establish slavery IN Massachusetts to sit
theIe-each like trsv. SIZED Pfohetheus, chained up
in TX gown because they had brough, TO earth Il
from the quarter op osite to heaven-aLd listen TO M
Hale end Mr. Phillips and other auti-slaveTy la Fyer7
day after days there were facts, sure to come 20 light
not honorable TO the court and not pleasant TO look st
in tie pGeseDce of New. England co umuLity then
getting indignant at the Outrages of the slave power
never thought The would co ne 70 the jury. j
kob &c The indie nent, and to my unlea'n7d eJe
il seemed lOoped and wnOO red with breaches that
skifu Law yer might crive a cart and SIX oxen
TIN ough it in various Iecions and go the court might
easily quash the indie ment aud save oil the blame OF
the failure on the poor Atorf ey-ThOm 'h!y seemed
TO despise, though using HIN for their purpOseS-Yh
they themselves should e. cape With who'e repu'a-
ton, and ears which had 10, tingled under manly
speech
OF course, knew the tIial would no. pre- eco on he
day orde red 10 appeaI-tbe egh nth auuivec"
sary of the Boston Massacre. L. would be 'unavolf-
ably postponed which came to PISS Accordingly. The
attorney very pohte! gaze me ali messed Information
from tire 20 tine.
"At the trial, April ,, it was optional with the de-
fendants cour sci TO beat the Government on the In
dictmen before the court the merits OF the case
before the Jury. The latter would furnish tho IN st
pquant events for cpTeus scenes we're likely TO
take place in the exsmna'ion OF witnesses, as veil as
instruction 10 be Offer ed in the speeches delivered
But on the whole it thought best TO blow up the
enemy i'll his own fortress AID viii bis own magazine
rather thsn to cut him to pieces with our sho ia the
open field. So the counsel rent the indictment toto
mary peces-appsrentiy TO the great comfort of the
judges, who thus escaped the battle which then Tell
OIL y on the head of the attorney.
''At the time appointed | was ready with my de-
fense-which now print for the country. 1t is
ministers periomance-Dot lawyers. vi course,
knew that the court would not have allowed me 70
proceed with such defense and that shoult be
obliged TO deliver it through the press. Had there
been actual jury Trial l should have had many
other things 70 offer in references TO The Gov
ernmen,'s evidence, TO the testimony given be-
fore the grand jury and to the condoct OF some oil
the grand Jurors themselves So the latter part OF the
defense is only the skecton of what il otherwise might
have been-the geological material OF the country
the Flora aud FsuDa left out.
Mr.. fsrker's Trial and Defense fills a volume Of
about three hundred pages. Beside the extract we
have given we have Only room TO quote the dsdics
ton as specimen Of the style and tone Of the work
JoaS Parser HALE
CHARLEs MAYO Ellis,
For their Lsbors ia a Noble Profession.
Which having in England its Keyns IL. s,uuds' ito