Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 197
y, and to vindicate the princi-ples by which he was actuated ? 167 168 Book of Patriotism My lords, it may be a part of the system of angryjustice to bow a mans mind by humiliation to the pur-posed ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me thanthe purposed shame of the scaffolds terrors would be… … Robert Emmet. by a revolution of powerwe might change places,though we never couldchange characters. If Istand at the bar of thiscourt and dare not vindi-cate my character, what afarce is your justice ? IfI stand at this bar and dare not vindicate my char-acter, how dare you calumniate it ? Does…
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