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to this belief, with the pertinacity of a miser to his golden god, the bigot to his creed, or the drowning wretch to the narrow plank that promises a renewal of life’s tenure, were it not that facts, appalling in themselves, forever and utterly preclude the possibility that I—that we— were mistaken and deceived. What these facts were, will be most clearly shown in the sequel.”
FOOTNOTE: On the guillotine.