A Stunner.
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Mr. President, I shall not remain silent, sir. while I have a voice that is not dumb in this assembly.
The gentleman, sir, can not expostulate this matter to any future time that was more suitable than now. He talks, sir, of the Herculaneum revolutions whereby republics as hurried into Antarctic regions and the works of centuries refrigerated to ashes; but, sir. we can tell him, indefatigably, that the consequences the reform multiplied subterraneously by everlasting principles, ended for thereby, can no more shake resolution than can the roar of
Niagara rejuvenate around these walls, or the howl of the midnight tempest conflagrant a marble statue into ice. ‘"That's what I told them!"’