Jeremiah Sullivan Black - PLAQUE
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Birthplace of Jeremiah Sullivan Black, 10th January, 1810, President Judge, Sixteenth Penna. Judicial District, 1842-1851, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of Penna. 1851-57, Attorney General of the United States 1857-1860, Secretary of State of the U.S. 1860-1861. Fearless and eloquent defender of constitutional rights, of trial by jury, and of civil and religious liberty until his death, 19th August, 1883.
"To live unmolested is not a political privilege, but a natural, absolute and indefeasible right, which human government may protect, but cannot either give or withhold." From his address on religious liberty.
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