eing, an assault did make, he the
said Freeman also then and there being an officer of the
said United States, to wit, Marshal of the United States,
for the said District of Massachusetts, and then and there
also being in the due and lawful discharge of his duties as
such officer. And so the jurors aforesaid, on their oath
aforesaid, do say and present that the said Theodore Parker,
at Boston aforesaid, on the said twenty-sixth day of said
May, with force and arms assaulted the said Freeman as such
officer, and knowingly and wilfully obstructed, resisted,
and opposed him in the discharge of his lawful duties in
manner and form aforesaid, against the peace and dignity of
the said United States, and contrary to the form of the
Statute in such cases made and provided. And the Jurors
aforesaid, on their oath aforesaid, do further present that
the said Theodore Parker was first apprehended in said
District of Massachusetts, after committing the aforesaid
offence, against the peace and dignity of the said United
States, and contrary to the form of the statute in such case
made and provided. A true bill.

ENOCH PATTERSON, JR., _Foreman_.

B.F. HALLETT, _United States Attorney for the District of
Massachusetts_.

Similar indictments were found against Mr. Phillips, Mr. Stowell, Rev.
T.W. Higginson, John Morrison, Samuel T. Proudman, and John C. Cluer.

Mr. Parker was arraigned on Wednesday, November 29th, and ordered to
recognize in bonds of $1,500 for his appearance at that Court, on the
5th of March, 1855. His bondsmen were Messrs. Samuel May, Francis
Jackson, and John R. Manley; his counsel were Hon. John P. Hale, and
Charles M. Ellis, Esq. The other gentlemen were arraigned afterwards
at different times.

After considerable uncertainty about the engagements of Hon. Justice
Curtis, Tuesday, April 3d, was fixed for the commencement of the
trials. At that time there appeared as counsel for the government,
Hon. Benjamin F. Hallett, District Attorney, and Elias Merwin, Esq.,
formerly a law partner of Judge Curtis; on the other side were Hon.
John P. Hale, and Charles M. Ellis, Esq., for Mr. Parker; Wm. L. Burt,
Esq., John A. Andrew, Esq., and H.F. Durant, Esq., counsel for Messrs.
Phillips, Higginson, Stowell, Bishop, Morrison, Proudman, and Cluer.

Mr. Hale, as senior counsel, stated to the court that the counse