human
For a man to address himself to an assembly like this, however, goaded to madness by suffering, sorrow, humiliation, perplexity--and now roused by venomous arts to an almost unanimous condemnation of the innocent--I say to address you, turn you in your tracks and force you to go the other way--that would indeed be a feat of transcendent oratorical power. I am no orator--but I am going to tell you the truth and the truth will make you do that thing!