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Extract from O'ConnelPs defence before the Jury, on his trial for "conspiracy:" "Now, gentlemen,we are charged with inciting to violence, and what is the proof offered! You have had some garbled speeches of mine read to you; but do they prove any intention of mine to incite to violence? I ask you is there one that does not incúlcate peace? It hasahvays been my greatest effort, and that has been laid before you by my prosecutors. Two principies have actuated me through life, and they have been put before the world. They have been inscribed upon your banners; and I avow them now. The first is that "He who commits a crime gives strength to our enemy." I avow it boldly - it is mine. And the second is, that "whatever advantage we obtain it must be obtained without the shedding of one drop of blood." Gentlemen, that has been the theory of my whole life. I would rather foregoany advantage than that one drop of human blood should be shed. I have said it fifty times - I have boasted ot" it - I have proclaimed it as loudly as ever public men proclaimed it - 1 have stood alone sometimes in disclaiming, in the most direct terms, all intention to resort to physical force - I have disclaimed it in all times, and under oM contingencies, except in the extreme case of an attack of civil war, but in all other contingencies, I have always said that not one singíe-dropof human blood should be shed. It has ever been my pride during my political life to avow this sentiment, and I would have abandoned, and I would now abandon, the sacred cause of Repeal if one drop of human blood was shed; I proclaimed this feeling on my part in the cause of Cathollc emanci pation. Yes,I succeeded with emancipation by the mighty aid and power of that principie. Look, gentlemen of the jury, to the past history and to the progress of emancipation. Look to the settlement of that question. Not one drop of blood was spilt in obtaining it. Look to the struggles which have hitherto been made, and will yet be made, in the cause of repeal. not one drop of blood has been shed! - And is it right - is it wise to interrupt a man in such a peaceful career? Is it right or wise to interrupt a man who has ever laid down this principie as the basis of his public conduct! Is it right to come out and cali that the conduct of a conspirator, and to treat him like a man who had resorted to forcible means?"