Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-06-17
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q Ia TIE last Picayune | saw an oration of some
gitsa happy to-be. noticed-n the Pic lawyer, IN
. which the most rapid succession of brilliancies
was displayed in the demonstration that case sis
q caael'' Here it follows:
'May it please the Court and gentlemen of the
Jury, this is a case-l say, gentlemen of the jury
land if state the law incorrectly his honor will
correct mel repeat, gentlemen of the jury
and defy the District attorney, with all his well
known power of subtety, to controvert the posi-
tion-isay again--this is CASE" Here one OF
the reporters tells another, in stage whisper
Yes and his (the orator's) client is gone case''l
The counsel continues" Yes, gentleman of the
Jury. say this is case, and rest the assertion
on the Ararar OF truth, and launch it the ocean
Of common sense, fearless of the delugo of false
swearing or the storms of professional bubbles.
Gentlemen of the jury, know the adroitness and
liability Of the Attorney for the State but con-
jure you TO beware of tho lava that gushes from
the 1Esssa Of his eloquence adjure you to steer
the ship OF Justice safe between the Scylla and
| Charybds of his insdous appeal. Gentlemen
a: .he jury, believe have proved to you in plain
and inIegibie language-because, gentlemen,
a disdain to indulge in metaphor II discard the flip
pant rhetoric OF the schools-l have proved to
i YOU say plain the oriental god Of day, when,
in all the effugence Of his dazzling glory, he
bursts on the morning, and clear as the queen Of
might when she
'Pale in her anger, washes all the air
that this is a case. Gentlemen. know the pub
| lie mnd is perturbed / know the ingredients of
/ Millerism and Mormonism and Mesmersm have
set The cauldron of infdety in a felment-but.
ssnonen, in giving your verdict, remember the
iilustrlous name which my client bears, remem-
Der the heroes of Bunker Hill, and remember the
~ az e lid n
this, and your nmes will be inscribed -f the ta-
blets Of truth--an eternal record Of your immac-
ulate sense of justice and unawed independence.
Do this and your country will bless you-'my eli
ent will bless you ~
Here the learned gentleman sat down. over
come by the power Of his own climax He rose
in few minutes, and very modestlf suggested to
the Court fiat, as he had no other end in view
than that Of the achievement of justice, he had
no objection to the jury's adjourniry for some
time if his honor thought his poor efortAs speak
er was likely to bias their judgment, or iway their
cool and deliberate opinions. e.
The Judge assured the learned gentlayna he
had no much fears. He had no doubt but he gen.
tlemans speech exceeded in force and eloponce
that Of Burke in the warren II astings case, Mere
such resort was found necessary, but iAtho
present instance he trusted to tl,S dispassiohto
opinion of the jury. y
The District Attorney for the State observa
that the learned gentleman who for the defenc'
had exhausted all his eloquence to prove that th
"was case" Now he fully agreed with TIN
gentleman shat it was a cdse-a clear and posi-
tive case of pocket.pcking.
The jury, it turned out, was of precisely tn
same opinion, and SO they found Thomas Jeffer
SON guilty!
Aristophanes has arisen from his dust.
h "Americanus'' on g Education" has wrtte
equally as well and originally upon his subject
as the New Orleans lawyer uiDp hishas spoken
and their efforts are analogous, and probably wer
simultaneous.
As go, will remark that Aristophanes is th
father Of criticism, and either he has aroused him
sell from his slumber of ages, and emulous of tn
rising fame and consequence of numberless ind
ters IN this region, he has infused portion of hi
own spirit of Wisdom and Test into their heads
seems now to be the rage to criticize herea
ways: Ergo. also will cast down the gauntlet
and give certain quidnunc jar with nv knigh,
~ lance, and conjure him TO shake no more III
mem AZ constellation by his apothegms. His pa,
F. riotism, OF which his cognomen her On o-eat
possession--shou have hindered his issne. s' .
such profundity, even as his fear of Banks,, bo
kept him from clothing his thoughts en- reo1e- q
the graceful diction of decorated style ana wei
rounded periods, in which garnishment he n,;ert
have dressed them, as he lniimates--had he !
s.GiMed.'' FEs
t.A.pericanus' subject is hackned one--on
+ whose plenum mas long ago been exhausted, an
one which the writer neither understands or no
sess' so fully as other writers, who have tried
witch the world into . patent road to Educatio
and belief they had the complete key to all
drcaaa. and have failed so to do, as their neglec
ed tornes amply testify.
EdncatidA is a word Of no meaning (altheue