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The New York Journal, And Daily Patriotic Register
New York, New York County, New York
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On July 5 in Philadelphia, Col. E. Oswald was imprisoned for one month and fined £10 by the supreme court for contempt of court due to publishing sentiments on liberty of the press, without trial or bail. Citizens from federal and anti-federal sides escorted him with cheers in support.
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Yesterday the following narrative, dated July 5, was received from Philadelphia, with a request, that it might be published in the New-York Journal.
THIS morning in pursuance of an arbitrary edict from the supreme court, was committed to prison, without being permitted either a trial by jury, hearing by counsel, bail or mainprize, sentenced to be confined for one month, and pay a fine of ten pounds, for the imaginary offence of writing and publishing his sentiments, constitutionally, as a free man, which was maliciously, construed into a contempt of court, that asserter of the rights of mankind, in the liberty of the press, Col. E. OSWALD.
He was escorted by a respectable multitude of his fellow citizens, who laid aside the contracted prejudices arising from the different sentiments of federal and anti-federal, and all joined in the common cause of freedom, in testimony of their approbation to him and disapprobation of his persecutors, by giving him three cheers at his entrance into prison.
OH LIBERTY, HOW ART THOU FALLING!
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Philadelphia
Event Date
July 5
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sentenced to be confined for one month, and pay a fine of ten pounds
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THIS morning in pursuance of an arbitrary edict from the supreme court, was committed to prison, without being permitted either a trial by jury, hearing by counsel, bail or mainprize, ... for the imaginary offence of writing and publishing his sentiments, constitutionally, as a free man, which was maliciously, construed into a contempt of court, that asserter of the rights of mankind, in the liberty of the press, Col. E. OSWALD. He was escorted by a respectable multitude of his fellow citizens, who laid aside the contracted prejudices arising from the different sentiments of federal and anti-federal, and all joined in the common cause of freedom, in testimony of their approbation to him and disapprobation of his persecutors, by giving him three cheers at his entrance into prison.