text: " "Viper!" exclaimed the minister rising in his seat "whom I have warmed and nourished in my bosom; viper! whom I took to my hearth and kept there till the returning sense of life gave vigour to your blood and fresh venom to your sting! Is it thus you pay me back for food and raiment--thus you heap upon me the expressions of a glowing gratitude!--with threats and deadly accusations? Spit forth your malice! Pile up falsehoods to the skies!--WHO WILL BELIEVE THE TALE OF PROBABILITY? Brethren! behold the man whose cause I pleaded with you--for whom my feelings had well-nigh mastered my better judgment