is well known that it has been my unfortunate lot to arraign both Whigs and Tories.  I say further, that I care not a jot whether the twelve men selected or permitted by the crown to try me, or rather to convict me, by twelve of my own co-religionists and political compatriots, or twelve Protestants, Conservatives, Tories, or “Orangemen.”  Understand me clearly on this.  My objection is not to the individuals comprising the jury.  You may be all Catholics, or you may be all Protestants, for aught that affects my protest, which is against the mode by which you are selected—­selected by the crown—­their choice for their own ends—­and not “indifferently chosen” between the crown and the accused.  You may disappoint, or you may justify the calculations of the crown official, who has picked you out from the panel, by negative or positive choice (I being silent and powerless)—­you may or may not be all he supposes—­the outrage on the spirit of the constitution is the same.  I say, by such a system of picking a jury by the crown, I am not put upon my country.  Gentlemen, from the first moment these proceedings were commenced against me, I think it will be admitted that I endeavoured to meet them fairly and squarely, promptly and directly.  I have never once turned to the right or to the left, but gone straight to the issue.  I have from the outset declared my perfect readiness to meet the charges of the crown.  I did not care when or where they tried me.  I said I would avail of no technicality—­that I would object to no juror—­Catholic, Protestant, or Dissenter.  All I asked—­all I demanded—­was to be “put upon my country,” in the real, fair, and full sense and spirit of the constitution.  All I asked was that the crown would keep its hand off the panel, as I would keep off mine.  I had lived fifteen years in this city; and I should have lived in vain, if, amongst the men that knew me in that time, whatever might be their political or religious creed, I feared to have my acts, my conduct, or principles tried.  It is the first and most original condition of society that a man shall subordinate his public acts to the welfare of the community, or at least acknowledge the right of those amongst whom his lot is cast, to judge him on such an issue as this.  Freely I acknowledge that right.  Readily have I responded to the call to submit to the judgment of my country, the question whether, in demonstrating my sorrow and sympathy for misfortune, my admiration for fortitude, my vehement indignation against what I considered to be injustice, I had gone too far and invaded the rights of the community.  Gentlemen, I desire in all that I have to say to keep or be kept within what is regular and seemly, and above all to utter nothing wanting in respect for the court; but I do say, and I do protest, that I have not got trial by jury according to the spirit and meaning of the constitution.  It is as representatives of the general community, not as representatives of the crown officials, the constitution supposes