Their Lordships' opposition to it should not be circumscribed by the mere consideration that the regulations of the Bill were fraught with irremediable loss to those who were now within reach of his voice, but they should be the firmer in their resistance to it, because it had been attempted to be forced on them in the Crisis of Excitement; so that they must adopt or reject it with precipitation, and without being allowed the chance of appealing from the demands of popular impatience to the public when under the influence of a calmer spirit.

Excitement Crisis