Publications Of The Narragansett Club The Bloody Tenant Of Persecution

The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution by Samuel Lunt Caldwell Roger Williams, first published in 1867, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Since its first publication in 1859, few works of political philosophy have provoked such continuous controversy as John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, a passionate argument on behalf of freedom of self-expression. This classic work is now available in this volume which also includes essays by scholars in a range of fields. The text begins with a biographical essay by David Bromwich and an interpretative essay by George Kateb. Then Jean Bethke Elshtain, Owen Fiss, Judge Richard A. Posner and Jeremy Waldron present commentaries on the pertinence of Mill's thinking to early 21st century debates. They discuss, for example, the uses of authority and tradition, the shifting legal boundaries of free speech and free action, the relation of personal liberty to market individualism, and the tension between the right to live as one pleases and the right to criticize anyone's way of life.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... The bloudy tenent of persecution Roger Williams Narragansett Club Wigwam, Mooshausick Paponakeeswuth, 1867. Netop: The Narragansett Club, in placing their third volume before their subscribers, would respectfully call attention to their last circular. By the terms of that circular they were authorized to charge for this volume Six Dollars and Fifty Cents, but are happy to announce that their expenses have been such as to enable them to fix the price at Six Dollars. The fourth volume of their series will consist of The Bloody Tenent yet more Bloody: by Mr. Cottons endeavor to wash it white in the Blood of the Lam be; of whose precious Blood, spilt in the Blood of his Servants; and of the Blood of Millions spilt in former and later Wars for Conscience fake, that most Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, upon a second Tryal, is found now more apparently and more notoriously guilty. In this Rejoynder to Mr. Cotton are principally, I. The Nature of Persecution, z. The Power of the Civill Sword in Spirituals Examined; 3. The Parliaments permission of Dissenting Consciences justified. Also (as a Testimony to Mr. Clark's Narrative) is added a Letter to Mr. Endicot Governor of the Massachusetts in N. E. London, Printed for Giles Calvert, and are to be fold at the black-spread Eagle, at the West-End of Pauls, 1652. The Club are not aware that the work has ever been reprinted, and consider it almost superfluous to add that copies are very rare. The editor of the third will also continue with the fourth volume. The Club take great pleasure in announcing that Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull has consented to take charge of the compilation and editorial supervision of the "Letters of Roger Williams." These letters

The current, heated debates over hate speech and pornography were preceded by the equally contentious debates over the "free and open press" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thus far little scholarly attention has been focused on the development of the concept of political press freedom even though it is a form of civil liberty that was pioneered in the United States. But the establishment of press liberty had implications that reached far beyond mere free speech. In this groundbreaking work, Robert Martin demonstrates that the history of the "free and open press" is in many ways the story of the emergence and first real expansions of the early American public sphere and civil society itself. Through a careful analysis of early libel law, the state and federal constitutions, and the Sedition Act crisis Martin shows how the development of constitutionalism and civil liberties were bound up in the discussion of the "free and open press." Finally, this book is a study of early American political thought and democratic theory, as seen through the revealing window provided by press liberty discourse. It speaks to broad audiences concerned with the public square, the history of the book, free press history, contemporary free expression controversies, legal history, and conceptual history.