. An historical account of the old State house of Pennsylvania now known as the Hall of independence. tention in allthe important cases of the day in the Province of Pennsylvania, andfrequently was he applied to for counsel and advice by the governors,as well as citizens, of the other colonies. It was, however, the famous Zenger trial case that earned himimmortality. The defendant was John Peter Zenger, a Palatinechild, who had been apprenticed by the State to William Bradford, tolearn the trade and mystery of printing, after the removal of the latterto New York. Zenger had evidently imbibed f
. An historical account of the old State house of Pennsylvania now known as the Hall of independence. tention in allthe important cases of the day in the Province of Pennsylvania, andfrequently was he applied to for counsel and advice by the governors,as well as citizens, of the other colonies. It was, however, the famous Zenger trial case that earned himimmortality. The defendant was John Peter Zenger, a Palatinechild, who had been apprenticed by the State to William Bradford, tolearn the trade and mystery of printing, after the removal of the latterto New York. Zenger had evidently imbibed from his master, withthe handicraft itself, the principles which should guide him in its con-duct. Bradford, it will be remembered, had abandoned Philadelphia,in consequence of interferences on the part of the Governor and Coun- 20 HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCE HALL. cil, and of his arrest made on account of his publications, but bothbefore the Council and the court he maintained his right to publishthe truth without sedition, and claimed that in such cases the jurywere judges of the law as of the In 1733, Zenger set up for himself, and published in that city the New York AVeekly Journal, with apparent satisfaction to all con-cerned, until at last he undertook to criticize the mismanajrement ofpublic affairs : remarking that the people of New York think as
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