Josiah Quincy: “A single breath blew all his mock-judicial array into air and smoke.”

The charge, therefore, that our government did really give up that important territory, when it was at its option to retain it, is purely and unqualifiedly untrue; and I now charge that it was known by Mr.

Adams replied: "I have no hesitation to say I hold that act unconstitutional and void.

Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.

May the Ruler of the universe preserve you from such degradation! 'Freedom!