(Lord Brougham here read the vehement, and even impassioned, terms in which the General refutes these foul calumnies, charging him, an officer of above half a century's service, with suffering his troops to commit enormities which no military man, of however little experience in his profession, could have permitted.)

Early himself waxed vehement, prophesying the prompt extermination of any smuggled slaves emancipated in the Southern states.