Here I might close; but the offender has found apologists, who plead
his cause at the bar and in the Senate. The apologies are a strange
compound, enlarging rather than diminishing the offences proved. There
is, first, the Apology of Good Intentions; next, the Apology of making
a case for the Supreme Court, being the Moot-Court Apology; and then,
the Apology that the President may sit in judgment on the laws, and
determine whether they shall be executed, which I call the Apology of
Prerogative. Following these is a swarm of technicalities, devices, and
quibbles, utterly unworthy of the Senate, and to be reprobated by all
who love justice.