Download or read book Report of the Trial of James H Peck Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Missouri Before the Senate of the United States on an Impeachment Preferred by the House of Representatives Against Him for High Misdemeanors in Office written by James Hawkins Peck and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Report Of The Trial James H Peck written by Arthur J. Stansbury and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1972 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Trial of James H. Peck: Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Missouri, Before the Senate of the United States, on an Impeachment Preferred by the House of Representatives Against Him for High Misdemeanors in Office That your petitioner, in making said exposition, not only availed himself of what he believed to be his right as a private citizen, but acted from a sense of duty to-those numerous land claimants by whom we was employed as counsel. That the object of your petitioner was, if possible, to counteract the effect that Judge Peck's opinion was calculated to produce on the value of the unconfirmed Spanish and French land titles, and to save the claimants from those speculators who would have availed themselves of the panic which the opinion created, to buy up those titles for an inadequate consideration. That your petitioner believes that he has, to a considerable extent, attained this object; and therefore submits, that his conduct in publishing the article, was not only not criminal, but was meritorious. That, in the exposition of the errors, whether in fact or in doctrine, of said opinion, your petitioner has attributed nothing to said Judge either untruly or maliciously, nor has he, in the tone and language used by him, violated any rule of courtesy or decorum. That the opinion of Judge Peck, and the article signed "A Citizen," were, both of them, published after the court had adjourned, and out of term, the said Judge having adjourned on the 30th day of December, 1825, to sit again on the third Monday of April, being the 20th day of April, 1826. Your petitioner further showeth, that, on the third Monday of April, 1826, being the first day of the term of the United States' District Court for the decision of land claims, immediately subsequent to the publication of the opinion of Judge Peck, a rule was made by said Judge, and served by the Deputy Marshal upon Mr. S. W. Foreman, the editor of the Missouri Advocate and St. Louis Enquirer, which rule is in the following terms: "The court being satisfied, from the evidence of Luke E. Lawless, that Stephen W. Foreman, of this city, is the editor and publisher of the Missouri Advocate and St. Louis Enquirer, published in the said city, and that the paper of that name of the eighth of April instant, which contains a false statement of and concerning a certain judicial decision made in the case of Julia Soulard, widow, and James G. Soulard, Henry G. Soulard, Eliza Soulard, and Benjamin A. Soulard, children and heirs of Antoine Soulard, deceased, against the United States, issued from the press of the said Stephen W. Foreman, it is ordered, that the said Stephen W. Foreman show cause, on to-morrow morning, at eleven o'clock, why an attachment should not issue against him for a contempt of this court in publishing the said false statement, tending to bring odium on the court, and to impair the confidence of the public in the purity of its decisions." In obedience to this rule, Mr. Foreman appeared, and by your petitioner, who acted as his counsel, showed against the rule, and urged that, First. He, Judge Peck, had no jurisdiction of the matter as a contempt of court. Secondly. That the article, in point of merits, was a correct statement of the positions and doctrines therein attributed to the Judge. Thirdly. That the language and tone of the article signed "A Citizen," were perfectly decorous. Your petitioner further showeth, that, in the argument and observations which he felt it his duty to submit, as counsel for the editor, he endeavored to demonstrate the truth of the article by a comparison of it with the text of the opinion, and disclaimed, in the most unequivocal manner, any contemptuous intention or feeling towards said Judge Peck, either in his judicial or his private character. Your petitioner showeth, that the arguments and

Download or read book Sprout written by Dale Peck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sprout and his father move from Long Island to Kansas after the death of his mother, he is sure he will find no friends, no love, no beauty. But friends find him, the strangeness of the landscape fascinates him, and when love shows up in an unexpected place, it proves impossible to hold. An incredible, literary story of a boy who knows he's gay, and the town that seems to have no place for him to hide.

Download or read book Atticus Finch written by Joseph Crespino and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was the real Atticus Finch? A prize-winning historian reveals the man behind the legend The publication of Go Set a Watchman in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch. Once seen as a paragon of decency, he was reduced to a small-town racist. How are we to understand this transformation? In Atticus Finch, historian Joseph Crespino draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee's father provided the central inspiration for each of her books. A lawyer and newspaperman, A. C. Lee was a principled opponent of mob rule, yet he was also a racial paternalist. Harper Lee created the Atticus of Watchman out of the ambivalence she felt toward white southerners like him. But when a militant segregationist movement arose that mocked his values, she revised the character in To Kill a Mockingbird to defend her father and to remind the South of its best traditions. A story of family and literature amid the upheavals of the twentieth century, Atticus Finch is essential to understanding Harper Lee, her novels, and her times.

Download or read book The Curse of Yig written by Zealia Brown Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Political Forgiveness written by P. E. Digeser and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It centers on the capacity of victims and creditors to release transgressors and debtors from their moral and financial debts. "If justice is a matter of receiving one's due," he says, "then political forgiveness entails releasing one's due." Neverthless, political forgiveness remains connected to justice in important ways.".

Download or read book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

Download or read book The Waverley Anecdotes written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Law of Defamation written by Laurence Howard Eldredge and published by Bobbs-Merrill. This book was released on 1978 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Waverley Anecdotes Illustrative of the Incidents Characters and Scenery Described in the Novels and Romances of Sir W Scott By F I e Forsyth written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bribes written by John Thomas Noonan and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Waverley Anecdotes Illustrative of the Incidents Characters and Scenery Described in the Novels and Romances of Sir Walter Scott Bart written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dry Goods Merchants Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Jurist written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 2520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Betrayal of Faith written by Mark M. Bello and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jennifer Tracey discovers that her new parish priest has harmed her two sons, she encounters the Coalitiona secret church organization tasked with the responsibility of taking care of these types of incidents quickly and quietly and by any means necessary. Jennifer decides to file a lawsuit against the priest and the church and seeks out an attorney, Zachary Blake, who handled her late husbands industrial death case. However, through an unfortunate series of events, Zachary has gone from the penthouse to the poorhouse, working out of a dingy one-room office, handling traffic cases. Although Jennifer has misgivings, she reluctantly retains him, and they call a press conference to announce their lawsuit. Zack hires an investigator, the infamous Micah Love, who travels to Ohio, where he discovers that two families have disappeared after an encounter with the same priestand the one person who may provide some answers has died under mysterious circumstances. Religion, law, betrayal, mystery, intrigue, faith, and love converge in Michigan for the trial of the century. Will Zachary resurrect his troubled career and obtain the justice Jennifer seeks for her kids? Or will the church and the Coalition and its mysterious leader prevail in covering up the decadent acts of the priest and circumvent justice once again?

Download or read book Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 2264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.