text:  Oh mightiest of spectacles which human grandeur can unfold to the gaze of less civilized nations when the ermine of the judge and the judgment-seat belted by no swords bristling with no bayonets--when the shadowy power of conscience citing as it were into the immediate presence of God twelve upright men accomplishing for great kingdoms by one day's memorable verdict that solemn revolution which elsewhere would have caused torrents of blood to flow and would perhaps have unsealed the tears of generations