. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. , and waseagerly welcomed as the champion of liberty. He asserted that thematter charged was the truth, and therefore no libel, and ridiculed some 1 Doc. Hist. N. v., IV. 1043. Keport of the trial published in Boston three yearsafterward. ^ Hamilton was a lawyer of great note, although the famous trial of Zenger widely in-creased his reputation. He was educated and in practice in England before coming to thiscountry. He filled many stations of trust during Ills long residence in Pennsylvania withhonor and ability. He
. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. , and waseagerly welcomed as the champion of liberty. He asserted that thematter charged was the truth, and therefore no libel, and ridiculed some 1 Doc. Hist. N. v., IV. 1043. Keport of the trial published in Boston three yearsafterward. ^ Hamilton was a lawyer of great note, although the famous trial of Zenger widely in-creased his reputation. He was educated and in practice in England before coming to thiscountry. He filled many stations of trust during Ills long residence in Pennsylvania withhonor and ability. He died in 1741. AX DREW HAMILTON. 551 of the notious advanced by the judges. The words charged as false,scandalous, malicious, and seditious libels were as follows: — Your appearance in print at last, gives a pleasure to many, though mostwish you had come fairly into the open held, and not appeared behind retrench-ments made of the supposed laws against libelling ; these retrenchments, gen-tlemen, may soon be shown to you and all mrn to bo very weak, and to have. Portrait of Andrew Hamilton.(From original painting in the Historical Society.) neither law nor reason for their f mndation, so cannot long stand you in stead ;therefore, you had much better as yet leave them, and come to what the peopleof this city and province think are the points in question. They think, as mat-ters now stand, that their liberties and properties are precarious, and that slaveryis Hkely to be entailed on them and their ]iosterity, if some past things be notamended; and this they collect from many i)ast proceedings. One of our neighbors of New Jersey being in company, observing the stran-gers of New York full of complaints, endeavored to persuade them to removeinto Jersey ; to which it was replied, that woidd be leaping out of the frying-pan into the fire ; for, says he, we both ;irc undir the same governor, and yourAssembly have shown with a witness what is to l)e expected from them :
Size: 1430px × 1747px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookpublishernewyorkasbarnes
