The Effingham Libels: A Documentary History of the Libel Suits of James Fenimore Cooper Centering Around the Three Mile Point Controversy and the Novel Home as Found, 1837-1845University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1924 - 708 strani |
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Albany Evening Journal American appeared Aristabulus Barber Benjamin Bragg Bryant called cause character charge Chenango Telegraph Circuit Commercial Advertiser contempt controversy Cooper suits Cooper's Correspondence Cooperstown counsel Courier and Enquirer criticism damages declaration defendant demurrer editor Edward Effingham evidence facts fair false feel Fonda gentlemen Grand Jury Greeley Greeley's Home As Found Homeward Bound Horace Greeley indictment James Fenimore Cooper James Watson Webb John Effingham Judge Gridley justice Lake Otsego law of libel letter libel suits malicious manner matter Montgomery County Naval History never New-York newspaper novelist novels November November 22 opinion Otsego County Otsego Lake Otsego Republican paper paragraph party person plaintiff prosecution published regard retraction Sacia slander statement Stone sued suits for libel Supreme Court thing Three Mile Point Thurlow Weed trial truth verdict village Weed's Whig William Leete writing York Tribune
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Stran 285 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Stran 285 - ... that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Stran 290 - Hamilton) that the liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends, whether it respects government, magistracy, or individuals.
Stran 48 - it is a poor rule that will not work both ways.
Stran 273 - The critic does a great service to the public, who writes down any vapid or useless publication, such as ought never to have appeared. He checks the dissemination of bad taste, and prevents people from wasting both their time and money upon trash.
Stran 279 - As a mode of defense autobiography is a failure; it too often confirms the old saying, that a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
Stran 70 - ... and the said plaintiff hath been and is by means of the premises otherwise greatly injured...
Stran 29 - There are two things I admire in Sir Walter, his capacity and his simplicity, which indeed I am apt to think are much the same. The more ideas a man has of other things the less he is taken up with the idea of himself. Every one gives the same account of the author of ' Waverley ' in this respect. When he was in Paris, and went to Galignani's, he sat down in an outer room to look at some book he wanted to see ; none of the clerks had the least suspicion who it was. When it was found out the place...
Stran 50 - There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Stran 69 - By means of the committing of which said several grievances by the defandant (below) as aforesaid, the plaintiff (below) hath been and is greatly injured in his said good name, fame, and credit, and brought into public scandal, infamy, and disgrace...