With my country, then, I leave my memory--my sentiments--my acts--proudly feeling that they require no vindication from me this day.

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted.

For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment toward them.

Influenced as they must have been by the charge of the Lord Chief Justice, they could have found no other verdict.

What of that charge?
Any strong observations on it, I feel sincerely, would ill befit the solemnity of this scene; but I would earnestly beseech of you, my lord--you, who preside on that bench--when the passions and the prejudices of this hour have passed away to appeal to your conscience, and ask of it was your charge as it ought to have been, impartial and indifferent between the subject and the Crown.