Litchfield enquirer., 1832-05-03


 an able Lawyer. Gruncy talks huently, and makes shrewd remarks. His Hisexperience gains him attention in the Senate, and he does not weary his audience by too frequently Obtrud- ing himself upon public notice. White, his colleague, is a pr0sy speaker. Ifhe has abil- ity have never been able to disceFn where it lies. Ellis of Mississippi is tall stoutly built man, who never addressed the Senate. POindexter is an able man-not an elegant, but an effective debater, and in personal ap- pearance strikingly resembles Judge Preble. Of Kane and Robinson, the Illinois Senators, am unable to speak, not being acquainted with either in private or public. Kane is young looking man and wears spectacles.- Robinson is tall, middle-aged man, and takes an active interest in what is going on without publicly participating in debate.-- Benton is the Maghabechi ofthe Senate--the book devourer-the compiler Of words to fit hts side of the case. You will always find him about sunset strolling over the walk a- round the Capitol, and thinking hard. Buck ner is his keeper and guardian. They arc both rather odd specimens from the state of Missouri.
 Now take this assembly all in all-and you will fnd not only very great men, but very little men. Some persons get into Public
 
 aggregate talent, and its diversified power, every American may point out with pride and exultatiOn. would with pleasure take any foreigner there, and ask him to compare our American Senate with the House of Lords or House of Commons, of England. have talked with those who have ieard Brougham speak, and they tell me that for playful and spOrtive sallies, Clay more than equals him for stern, severe and unassailable logic, Web- ster is his superior; for fiery and tremendous bursts of feeling, starting fresh from a gener- ous heart, Hayne yields to nobody; and for provoking. lacerating, and crooked argument I would put Tazewell against the world. Iver- 1 fly believe the crafty Senator can prove that one aud one makes three.-Portl Adv.
 A correspondent of the Portland Advertise l CT. who has contributed 80 to the amuse- lnent of the public, during the past winter, gives the following description of several prominent individuals.
 "If you go into the Supreme Court at II o'clock you will soon see coming in tall, spare. slow-moving, antique dressed. patri- archial man, the honorable relic of another age. dispensing courteous but digniied saluta. tions, to which every eye is directed. Who $ that is the question that every stranger
  Marshall" The eye ofevery inquirer bright ems at the answer, if he has any sensibity, and strains itself for keener look. One feels a flush of pride, that he has seon this venera, ble man, whom unsuitable time must in the natural course of life, soon take to his grave. The very look is sort of intangible bequest for posterity. Well, the other Justices are in, and soon put on their silk robes.
 "The members of the bar, such snen as Sergeant. Witt, Webster, Ogden, &c. soon gather round; and by and by, one of the Judges begins to read the decision in a case, n quavering, feeble and weakened tones that ,ge had evidently affected. You can barely distinguish them across the room. Another stranger puts to you the question, svho is that !? V It is the same Chief Justice Marshall."- Every individual to whom have made this reply under such circumstances, seems to have been aroused from trance. What, think they, that Chief Justice Marshall !-I 'Ihere IS something associated with his repu. 'atlon of great logical power and acute dis. something, know not what, mat the stranger expects to find indicated by lh lhe voice. Voice, it has been said, and I be. lleve 1t in part. is the index ofthe mind. That Chief Justice Marshall then, should not be heard distinctly; that old age should have sna'tered his voice and left his mind unin. pared, and that a man, with such a voice. should be the very first man in America, and among tho first in the world, for keenness of 'ntellect-all intellect as it is now !-I aver js something that puzzles mo as we'll as every body else. .
 Next n lawyer arises to speak. Perhaus U IS man of small stature, not six feet. who mas so little bulk that you fancy he has no right to be in this great Areopagus of onr conntry--but who has an air and manner so imposing, with an eye so speaking, and l mouth SD expressively curved, as to provoke every body to inquire his name. "That is l John Sergeant" "What. that little man John sergeant, the candidate for Vice President ?,' Yes, and if you hear him argue his cause ana see his eye kindle. and mark the grasp ot nus intellect. you will soon learn that mind IS not proportioned to the body" But there IS one face here. whose phy ysiogno mical indica- lions puzzle me grievoMsly. l see large s'zed man, with concave-lOoking, good. na. tured phiZ. tearing brother lawyer's areu. ment all to pieces--and pouring forth a pro. fundity oflearning and metapR Rysical law And all this too from man whose counte. nance, the forehead excepted, indicates any thing else than intellect-but, perhaps Tough, always to except little uneasiness in the eve. often expressive of acute powers. But this. man is the great Mr. Ogden of NezpOrk - One case more and leave the Cd for the great questions of constitutional law, Inc