THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS
without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, tho in her frown!
On that justice I rely; deliberate and sure, abstracted from all party purpose and political speculation, not on words, but on facts. You, my lords, who hear me, I conjure, by those rights it is your best privilege to preserve; by that fame it is your best pleasure to inherit; by all those feelings which refer to the first term in the series of existence, the original compact of our nature—our controlling rank in the creation. This is the call on all to administer to truth and equity, as they would satisfy the laws and satisfy themselves, with the most exalted bliss possible or conceivable for our nature—the self-approving consciousness of virtue—when the condemnation we look for will be one of the most ample mercies accomplished for mankind since the creation of the world! My lords, I have done.
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