To show the statesman’s errors and his crimes.
Now here was Justice Bolt compell’d to sit,
To hear the deist’s scorn, the rebel’s wit;
The fact mis-stated, the envenom’d lie,
And, staring spell-bound, made not one reply.
Then were our Laws abused - and with the laws,
All who prepare, defend, or judge a cause:
“We have no lawyer whom a man can trust,”
Proceeded Hammond - “if the laws were just;
But they are evil; ’tis the savage state