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My lords, this awful subject, so important to our honor, constitution,
and our religion, demands the most solemn and effectual inquiry. And
again I call upon your lordships, and the united powers of the State, to
examine it thoroughly and decisively and to stamp upon it an indelible
stigma of the public abhorrence. And again I implore those holy prelates
of our religion to do away these iniquities from among us. Let them
perform an illustration; let them purify this House and this country
from this sin. LORD CHATHAM.
From "The Attempt to Subjugate America."
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Now, there are three questions before the people of the country to-day,
and they are all public, all unselfish, all patriotic, all elevated, and
all ennobling as subjects of contemplation and of action. They are the
public peace in this large and general sense that I have indicated. They
are the public faith, without which there is no such thing as honorable
national life; and the public service, which unless pure and strong and
noble makes all the pagans of free government but doggerel in our ears.
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