Whether you regard it in the shape of a kind of reprieve; whether you regard it as a kind of supreme pardon, or whatever way you like to look upon it,–I am afraid I cannot give a correct analogy or parallel–it is one more chance, in my opinion, for real justice being done, rather than suffer momentary exigency or political prejudices to prevail. Accordingly, I put it to the House that it would be erring,–if at all it is erring,–on the side of justice and fairplay, and as such it should be accepted.
(Amendment No. 1184 was not moved.)