Yet, lest any sentiment of his might injuriously affect those that were then, or might thereafter be on their trial, he forebore to assert the principles of which he was there the martyr, and of which he was more than ever proud.

It was to the same unselfish sentiment he yielded, when consenting to say, "Not guilty," to a charge he would have felt the greatest glory in avowing.
I despair of conveying to my readers an adequate idea of the gloom and horror of the scene in which those immortal words were spoken.

Death, near and terrible, was in the future.

The recollection of ten days' infamy peopled the present with ghastly images of evil.

Vindictiveness inexorable glared from the bench.