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I made a very earnest and carefully prepared speech against the asserted right of the jury to judge of the law in criminal cases.
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Hoar recounts delivering a speech against the jury's right to judge the law in criminal cases, highlighting his legal stance.
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You said the people of Lowell would not think very highly of me when they saw me riding through the streets in my carriage and knew it was paid for by the money of this bank.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
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