. The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York. John Peter Zenger,who waged war in such fashion that he was the next yeararrested for libel and put on trial by the Attorney-Generalon information. The jury found a verdict of not guilty, onthe plea that the publication was true. The doctrine wasfar in advance of any other legal utterance of that period inbehalf of freedom of debate in print. The annals of 1741 are blotted by the popular passionover an alleged negro plot to burn New York City. A firein the chapel an
. The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York. John Peter Zenger,who waged war in such fashion that he was the next yeararrested for libel and put on trial by the Attorney-Generalon information. The jury found a verdict of not guilty, onthe plea that the publication was true. The doctrine wasfar in advance of any other legal utterance of that period inbehalf of freedom of debate in print. The annals of 1741 are blotted by the popular passionover an alleged negro plot to burn New York City. A firein the chapel and barracks at Fort George on the Battery,was attributed to the blacks, and it was charged thatSpaniards had emissaries in the work of destruction. Theforms of justice were observed, but madness sat on thebench. A preacher named Ury was hanged protesting hisinnocence; Hughson, a tavern-keeper of the lower sort,with his wife and servant went to the gallows. Thirteenblacks were burned at the stake, eighteen were hanged,and seventy transported, for a conspiracy which had noexistence, even if some were guilty of sporadic
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