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- GLC#
- GLC06417.01
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- circa 1815
- Author/Creator
- Tudor, William, 1779-1830
- Title
- [Jury decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 33 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Also signed by Daniel Davis as Solicitor General of Massachusetts, and Andrew Cunningham as Foreman. Contemporary copy of the decision in the case of two printers, Thomas Rowe and Joshua Hooper, accused of sedition against the government of the United States. Hooper and Rowe were publishers of a newspaper, "The Yankee." On 20 January they printed a slanderous and malicious article criticizing the legislature of Massachusetts for weakening on the issue of Massachusetts seceding from the United States. Describes the content of the newspaper article and details the seditious accusations made by the printers. Quotes the article, "It is now ascertained to be a fact that they [the Massachusetts Legislature] are a factious but lifeless body, that is, they have shewn all possible disposition to prostrate the National Government of the United States and sever themselves from the Union but they have neither the nerve or the courage to do it." Date inferred from content. See GLC06417.02 for a clipping of the newspaper article in question.
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