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 ¬sure to carry every thing before it; and when unanswerable in the abstract, it became more affecting by many notorious instances of the most savage cruelties, it is no wonder that there should have been an universal impulse to support it, and that any difficulties in the way of useful legislation, should have been completely overshadowed by the lustre of hu- manity. ¬" In this manner, the projected law you have heard of, went down almost by accla- mation, to the other council for its assent, where its success would have been equally cer- tain, if the resolutions of public assemblies were invariably the results of general conviction; but as the bravest armies have been put to flight by the panic of a single soldier, so the wisest coun- cils, by the influence of individual error, may be turned out of the course of wisdom. — It hap- pened at that time, by an accident which can occur but seldom, because the union of so many high and valuable qualifications is a rare occur- ¬d rence, ¬ /n