And when at last the case could not be arrested by any device, or be longer postponed,--when judgment was inevitable,--he came to the work, not warmly or generously, but in trembling obedience to the Truth, which waited to be declared.
Sumner describes the judge's reluctant acceptance of the truth regarding slavery when a decision became unavoidable.
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