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He too undertook to answer the argument of Luther Martin, Harper, and Hopkinson on the nature of impeachment ; but he answered without understanding it, — calling it " almost too absurd for argument, " " a monstrous pretension, " " a miserable quibble, " but advancing no theory of his own, and sup- porting neither Campbell's, Nicholson's, nor Rodney's opinion. After a number of arguments which were in no sense answers, he said he would no longer worry the good sense of the Court by combating su...ch a claim, — a claim which the best lawyers in America affirmed to be sound, and the two ablest of the managers had exhausted themselves in refuting. Randolph's closing speech was overcharged with vituperation and with misstatements of fact and law, but was chiefly remarkable on account of the strange and almost irrational behavior of the speaker. Randolph's tall, thin figure, his penetrating eyes and 1806. TRIAL OF JUSTICE CHASE. 237 shrill voice, were familiar to the society of Wash- ington, and his violence of manner in the House only a short time before, in denouncing Granger and the Yazoo men, had prepared his audience for some eccentric outburst ; but no one expected to see him, " with much distortion of face and contortion of body, tears, groans, and sobs, " break down in the middle of his self-appointed task, and congratulate the Senate that this was "the last day of my sufferings and of yours.
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