848 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:808 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Expressions of attachment and confidence in the President, along with a determination to resist the oppression of the French government, were conveyed through various addresses. The President replied to these…
851 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERYou, the jury, have found otherwise. You are a gentleman of the profession, possessing such capacity and knowledge that it is more within your power to mislead the ignorant. I do not wish…
850 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:I am sorry you did not think it proper to make an affidavit regarding your circumstances. You are a perfect stranger to the court, at least to me. I do not know you personally—I…
845 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPER. 805Countries of the other, provided this shall be done only on such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be…
844 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:804 ¢ X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Liberties. They should be under no influence—they are only accountable to God and their own consciences—your present judges are in that situation.There is a small circumstance which the Attorney…
846 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:No court of justice here has jurisdiction over the crime of murder committed on board a British ship of war. When the British government requested the President to deliver this man up, it became…
843 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERFrom: an interference without precedent, against law and against mercy. Is not this an attack and a most serious attack on the character of the President?The traverser goes on thus: "This melancholy case…
839 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERLibels against themselves. If a man attempts to destroy the confidence of the people in their officers, their supreme magistrate, and their legislature, he effectively undermines the foundation of the government. A republican…
841 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERThe duties of his high station render him unfit for the important office to which the people have elected him. The motives and intent of the defendant, not the President, are the subjects…
842 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:Ladies and gentlemen, again, if you believe this, what opinion can you form of the President? Certainly, the worst you can form. You would certainly consider him totally unfit for the high station which…
840 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:800 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALSThe import of the publication is significant since the offense is committed by the two coupled together.First, let's address the publication.The fact of writing and publishing is clearly proven; in…
838 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:798 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSThe defendant aimed to justify his own conduct and language throughout. You, gentlemen of the jury, under the direction of the court, will decide whether he has presented to you…
836 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:The text clearly demonstrates a settled intention to persuade the public that the President of the United States is unfit for the high office he holds. You must be fully convinced of this from…
833 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:In the act that defines this offense and outlines the punishment, a level of defense is provided that is, to my knowledge, unknown in any other country where a party is tried for libel…
834 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:Gentlemen, if the assertions I have made are true, whatever the motives behind them may be, you cannot find me guilty. I believe it is impossible, if you consider the paper in its entirety,…
835 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:In the act that defines this offense and outlines the punishment, a level of defense is provided that is, to my knowledge, unknown in any other country where a party is tried for a…
837 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERThroughout the quotations he has made, particularly from the addresses to the President and the answers to them, there has been a series of misrepresentations. It will be my duty to address these…
829 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:In the act that defines this offense and outlines the punishment, a level of defense is provided that is, I believe, unknown in any other country where the party is tried for a libel…
831 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:In the act that defines this offense and outlines the punishment, a level of defense is provided that is, to my knowledge, unknown in any other country where a party is tried for libel…
832 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:794 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSGentlemen, if the assertions I have made are true, whatever the motives behind them may be, you cannot find me guilty. But I think it is impossible, if you consider…
830 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:Gentlemen, if the assertions I have made are true, whatever the motives behind them may be, you cannot find me guilty. I believe it is impossible, if you consider the paper in its entirety,…
826 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:Gentlemen, if the assertions I have made are true, whatever the motives behind them may be, you cannot find me guilty. I believe it is impossible, if you consider the paper as a whole,…
828 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:Gentlemen, if the assertions I have made are true, whatever the motives behind them may be, you cannot find me guilty. I believe it is impossible, if you consider the paper in its entirety,…
827 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:In the act which defines this offense and outlines the punishment, a liberality of defense is provided, which is unknown, I believe, in any other country where the party is tried for a libel…
823 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERMay it be considered seditious to say the President is mistaken? Before you can condemn me for this kind of sedition, you must become Catholic believers in this new-fangled doctrine of infallibility. I…
824 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:792 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALSAnother, in a form more portable and convenient, purports to be a selection of addresses and answers to and from the President during the summer of 1798. Not having been…
825 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPER, 793Where there is no reasonable suspicion or assignable motive for why the publications I offer should misrepresent the transactions I allude to, the probability is in favor of their accuracy. This is…
822 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:790 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.In this paper, which you will have before you when you retire, I shall not read at length. This application was from one friend to another; on the face of…
819 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:THOMAS COOPERThe other too little influence on the measures of government. One is friendly, the other hostile, to a standing army and a permanent navy. One believes they are necessary to repel invasions and…
820 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document
Here is the translated text as follows:788 ZX. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Alluded to in the indictment, you will reverence as you ought the sacred obligation of the oath you have taken.Gentlemen of the jury, I acknowledge, as freely as any of…