The attempt to abridge it would be so infatuated that the most dignified Court that ever sat in Boston would become an object of universal merriment and ridicule, that should presume to arrest and cause to be indicted any man for free speaking in old Faneuil Hall.
Beecher emphasizes the absurdity of limiting free speech in a historically significant location for American democracy.
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