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 nearly three hours. He seemed to feel as one emancipated from a long and hated thraldom, and spoke with great earnestness and power, vindicating his measures with consummate ability; and, confident of the favour of the house, indulging himself in a sarcastic pleasantry, upon some of the absurdities of his opponents, which excited bursts of laughter. He was luxuriating in his newly acquired liberty—a man renovated by the touch of truth-a statesman, not longer & led leader. After exhausting the field of argument and ridicule, be appealed to the justice and the humanity of the house:

The resumption of the debate on Tuesday night was