Identifier: progressofempire01cona_0 (find matches)
Title: The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Conant, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1861-1915
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Publisher: New York : The Progress of the Empire State Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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John Peter Zenger, who waged war in such fashion that he was the next year arrested for libel and put on trial by the Attorney-General on information. The jury found a verdict of not guilty, on the plea that the publication was true. The doctrine was far in advance of any other legal utterance of that period in behalf of freedom of debate in print. The annals of 1741 are blotted by the popular passion over an alleged negro plot to burn New York City. A fire in the chapel and barracks at Fort George on the Battery, was attributed to the blacks, and it was charged that Spaniards had emissaries in the work of destruction. The forms of justice were observed, but madness sat on the bench. A preacher named Ury was hanged protesting his innocence; Hughson, a tavern-keeper of the lower sort, with his wife and servant went to the gallows. Thirteen blacks were burned at the stake, eighteen were hanged, and seventy transported, for a conspiracy which had no existence, even if some were guilty of sporadic crimes.
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