These gentlemen could
not help observing the great inequality of the parties engaged, the
great advantages that the uncle had in every other respect, except
the truth and justice of his case, over the nephew, by means of
his vast possessions, and of his power and influence all round the
place of his birth; nor could the contrast between the different
geniuses of the two parties escape their observation. They could not
but see and conclude, that a person who had confessedly transported
and sold his orphan nephew into slavery,--who, on his return, had
carried on so unwarrantable and cruel a prosecution to take away
his life under colour of law,--and who had also given such glaring
proofs of his skill and dexterity in the management of witnesses
for that cruel purpose,--was in like manner capable of exerting the
same happy talent on this occasion, when his all was at stake; more
especially, as he had so many others who were equally interested
with himself, and whose abilities in that respect fell nothing
short of his own, to second him in it.
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