The charge is sometimes made by persons who consider that I desire to do right, but think that my understanding and intellectual faculties are guided and blinded by that emotion.

Others are not so charitable.

One very self-satisfied critic, Mr.William Lloyd Garrison, sometimes in prose and sometimes, A screechin' out prosaic verse An' like to bust, says that I differ from my honorable colleague, Mr.Lodge, in that Mr.Lodge has no conscience, while I have a conscience but never obey it.

If any man be disposed to accept these estimates, it is not likely that I can convince him to the contrary by my own certificate.

But I will say two things: 1.