On the record
They are the multitudinous jury, coming from no small vicinage, but from the whole country: for on this impeachment, involving the Public Safety, the vicinage is the whole country.
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He describes the people as a broad jury in a national impeachment trial, highlighting their collective judgment.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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