The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-11-06

acterixed Away, howsyer, hy A imnetnoai
y and Warmth Of style. Before inry. ia
deed tbink, he was too impulsive. and
|isin this, any It with great deference
from rec1liecsiansof Ten years pusl;) lhaf 4,
materially failed 10 beiag elective
Feeling strongly the night Of bic cause
NJ no always did, being san honest lawyer,
be usually seemed 20 believe that not onl,
was his cliant perfectly correct in his de-
mands, but his opponent was a very bat
man, anxious to injure him-the result was
that laboring under the impeluous excite.
nent ofa reused and ardent temperament
he not only laa,ed himself into an extra
fcarnestness, but grew frequently very angry
and wrathy with his opponents-and huri.
ing his dennnciationa right and left, and
apparently loosing his temper. sometimes fell
into side bar squabbles, which adoit and
cooler men used to his disadvantage. This
was one Of Wirt,s favorite modes Of attack
I ing him. He always endeavored to get
Mr.. II. into a personal excitement, for ne
well knew he was as an infant TO hin upon
The law, and feared him greatly IN deliberate
argument. II wns amusing to witness the
saucy GOODNESS with which the great orator
watched his moment t, fling in some word, or
sheer, or curl Of the lip 10 rouse the feelings
Of the professor. 1t was thcn-and then
only that he appeared TO want GOODNESS and
del,beration. and the frozen, creeping snak 3
like caution Of a calculating man Of the law.
lfhe failed, however, at that monet, then
personal indignation which lit up every fea-
Etur /, and sweIled every vein, and marked
every almost Aenzied gesture, pointed with
terrible sharpness the sting Of his retort.
But when question of pure abstract law
arose, and he turned from the jury to the
court, there was not n calmer, more CON-
posed, or closer argurer at the bar-full of
auth, rites anil cases, and not to be diverted
by human skill or ingenuity from linking his
law and his facts so as to rivet the attention
of the judges, and bind them 10 the adoption
Of his reasoning as the Inv. Il was thus
that he explored many Of the long received
obsolete branches Of the law--as in his
celebrated case of s.Wages Of Law and
that lac sounded all the unknown depths of
the admiralty practice, and fixed it upon
basis which is now adopted through the
His vast professional success and
merit must he at once admitted when state.
(what every one will find to be an unvar-
nished fact, by inspecting the Reports, that !
out Of twen,y-eight cases he argued in the
Supreme Court Of the United States, he
gained fwenty-sevcn; receiving in several
cases fees to The amount Of five, ten, and
twenty thousand, and believe in one up-
wards OF thirty-fve thousand dollars.
As stump orator, about election time,
he IS ready for any thing. heard him. in
he canvass Of IS or ,36, when he was a
on the Electoral ticket. Il was
amusing to see the delight Of the people,
when II was announced that he would speak,
md to listen to the frcquent shouts for him,
before his turn came to take the stand. Att
ast he cafne-thiD, pale and tall; and al his
'ow 70 the multitude, you might have heard
pm tall IN the midst of the thousands.-
fe began, usually, with short sentences,
'ame truths and propositions. He took the
ighest-nay. almost aristocratic-grt unds
ar the people; elevating their destinies and
uties, instead of shootiny to strike low and
uIgar prejudice, by flauery. He gave
'em true, constitutional, respectable no I
ons OF their rights, and If an inc.,rrupt and
irsuoss republic, in c.ntradisiinc,i,n 10 the
o'ion Ut = pseudo dem ,crocy, which would I
nake the West drunkard and loafer eonaI /
right ana station and vote to the enlight- a
ned merchant, or Industrious. sober tizan.
le appealed Z" the common sense Of man.
ind, and to the natural republican distinc- {
Gus created by God himself, between the {
lteiIigent and vlrtuous, and the IDLE and ,
cio.is. and thrust these soul-stirrins and
'gnlfying truths into the hearts Of his hear- .
rs, as with the spear OF Ithuriel. Herr. '
ame into play, admirably, his enthusiastic G
oqnence and action; the people were con- y
need Of his sincerity and honesty-felt y
elr rights and duties .elevated-leIt the z
ecessity Of thought and study upon the ex- +
else ofiheir political privileges, and the | 9
en- to whom, and the purposes for which. a
ey delegated their power; and MANY a II,
le has gone home from the square. or the |:
arket-piace, after his speech, cursinp their Ii
'magogues who had misguided him N pre- v
Gus years, resolving never to dev;ate again. {;
The Wing party in Maryland has, thus, +
'ch cause to be grateful TO Dawn HorYs a
N, f'r his Iabors 10 their behalf, from the +
announcement Of their strife il KS, Tor he =
9. beesl a constant opponent, from the FIRST :
the ruling dynasty; and if he has political Z
a'ii,on 10 xraisfy, i IL 10 DO hoped that 10
u Be pFoperly remembered ia the better <
ys 70 which ~ ara looking. say ihis, N
pecially, as We could ~ s. boleee feurel s
nied tlaan.by such 1 persoosRe, Il somo =
urf, where, in the intervals of hls Occupsi-
q hia lon esnss.u4 = s.d axl<1.e~. .....~fl .-sl