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[114] Its length precludes its full admission. But we give passages sufficiently copious to preserve the chain of the argument and without trying to describe the effect on the vast assembly that crowded the Senate Chamber, which would be at best but a poor attempt; for, as an old Greek writer said of the eloquence of his countrymen-‘The wonder-working power of oratory must needs die with the delivery.’
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