...ion. The Proclamation, Saulsbury tells us, is brutum fulmen --it is nothing, and will amount to nothing — it is ludicrously inefficient and absurdly impotent — and yet — for here Saulsbury hoists himself over the other horn of his dilemma — and yet, this brutum fulmen, this ludicrous, inefficient, absurd and impotent thing, is to have the most extraordinary effects — it is...