The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1842-12-30

the crash Of banks and the surges Of suspenA
sion had spared him, are new 70 be gamhied
away by your verdict Isay gambled away.
gentlemen; for such verdict, IN point Of
Injustice, would sink below playing Ct bTag
or poker with marked cnFds-n mind you, !
say with marked CARDS, gentlemen
He next launched into the pathetics.---
sGentlemen,' said be, you all have wives
young, amiaBle, interesting, lovely wives,
Gentlemen, my client too has a vile; but
alas! she IL neither young, amiable, inferest-
Ting or lovely. She il old, Gentlemen very
old. Atiiabe she is not, for the VicIssitudea
of fortune and q constitution broken down
by disease, have rendered her an object more
to be piIied than admired; interesting or
lovely she cannot be, for she has long since
passed that period of life when beauty lends
its Establishments 10 the cheek and spright-
illness and vivacity add their lustre 20 per-
sonal attractions. Take these negroes away
from her and PROSTATE her-as the immortal
Shakespeare so elegantly exPressesis--
| - You do take the prop
/ That doth sustain her house you fake Der life
When you do take the means whereby ahe liveH'
In fact, gentlemen, pledge you my pgo-.
| fessional reputation that you would be 81
| liable 70 Indictment for murder in the hFst
degree should you End verdict against my
client
At this announcement the Jury looked
startled, the judge looked astonished and az
the several negative compliments paid to his
better half, the plaintiff seemed nowise pleas
ed. The counsel next referred TO the head
of his client, silvered Ger with age-no, not
with age, for he was comparatively young
man, but with the frOsts of misfOrtune.---
Here the defendant darted out of the court
, lin an apparent rage. The counsel continu.
ed his ingenious defence, and finally wound
up BY an ardent appeal TO the virtue, intelli-
gence, Independence and magnanimity Of
the jury, to find for the defendant.
The opposite counsel replied. They re
!, ferrsd TO the conclusive nature Of the eVi.
dence-.-to the cIearness Of the law and the
naked facts Of the case. The Judge charged
lin favor OF the pIaintif, and eensured the
! cratic and unprofessional course Of defen.
dant's counsel, bul It was Ell Of no avail
The eloquence Of Harnett, the pity-exciting
picture which he drew of Mackew's wife.
!. Tin which, by the way, there was not one
: word Of truth, for she happened TO be .
!. brisk; bouncing #onan bat above all, bid
= threat about srraigning them for murder, do
THE business with che inFy; and without "a
Al firing from their seSts, they brought in Der
; dicl FIR the defendant.
Z Harnett immediately left the court. and 81
!. his way up TO the tavern met his client. Wht
!. seemed flushed with liquor and much excl
/. ted. Joy my boy, joy!' said the delight
= ed counsel; I've gained the suit
q DIN the suit and .d-n you, and d.
!. the negroes said Mackew; Il would mt suf
of fer the abuse you gave the old woman an,
$ myself Tor the whole consaFn: I'll lick Yol
i for it, any way you can Ak ii;' and here b.
q brandished large stick over his JEALOUS law
years head, and would have repaid him 70
in his de3tetoHs professional service With
r sound drubbingi had not mutual friends Ia
n. terposed.
Explanations were made TO MackeW, VIII
y at length became convinced that the talk 4
= bout his wife's age, ugliness, 3zc., and abou
ID his own gray hair, was all in his eye an
ID Eilzaoeth- MafLhi so 1hey aoJournsa g II
Id tavern an0 nao general dFInk.