Such an amount of moral courage, however, a sufficient occasion may evoke. The mode of treatment of the Conscience Clause question in your Lordship's recent Charge, ought not to pass Without respectful, but very earnest, protest. Your Lordship, in entering upon the subject of the imposition of the Conscience Clause, bespeaks for it a calm and fair hear ing. The hearers and readers of your Charge could hardly be prepared by this for the strong language in the next paragraph, in which your Lordship declares your deep conviction that never has the truth on any subject been more obscured by passionate declamation, sophistical reasoning, high sounding but utterly hollow phrases, and by violent distortion of notorious facts, than on this.