ys maintain Parpendic'lar sentiments.
Gentlemen might not agree with him, but, for one, he was not disposed to
jipordyze the liberties of his constituents, and therefore he gave
the rizolution just as it came from the Riddles, without altering a
letter--although he did think there was one word misspelt--he meant
'really,' which he had been taught to spell 'ra'aily'--but he was ready
to sacrifice even his opinions on this point to the good of the country;
and therefore he went with the Riddles, even to their misprints. He
hoped the rizolution would pass, with the entire unanimity so important
a subject demanded."

This speech produced a very strong sensation. Up to this time, the
principal orators of the house had been much in the practice of
splitting hairs about some nice technicality in the Great Allegory; but
Noah, with the simplicity of a truly great mind, had made a home thrust
at the root of the whole matter; laying about him with the single-first,
I made a few apposite remarks on the necessity of respecting the vital
ordinances of the body politic, and asked the attention of my hearers
while I read to them a particular clause, which it had struck me had
some allusion to the very point now in consideration. Having thus
cleared the way, I had not the folly to defeat the objects of so much
preparation, by an indiscreet precipitancy. So far from it, previously
to reading the extract from the constitution, I waited until the
attention of every member present was attracted more forcibly by the
dignity, deliberation, and gravity of my manner, than by the substance
of what had yet been said. In the midst of this deep silence and
expectation I read aloud, in a voice that reached every cranny in the
hall--

"The great council shall, in no case whatever, pass any law, or
resolution, declaring white to be black."

If I had been calm in the presentation of this authority, I was equally
self-possessed in waiting for its effect. Looking about me I saw
surprise, perplexity, doubt, wonder, and uncertainty in every
countenance, if I did not find conviction. One fact embarrassed even me.
Our friends the Horizontals were evidently quite as much at fault as our
opponents the Perpendiculars, instead of being, as I had good reason to
hope, in an ecstasy of pleasure on hearing their cause sustained by an
authority so weighty.

"Will the honorable member have the goodness to explain from what author
he has quoted?" one of the leadin