Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-01-28

And as a mark OF respect. W e"' Hhh hst o''ot
The sts,r SO much service, The portrait ct = old
Gen Thomas hoW gfaets the Halt 81 lhe
House Of Representatives.
As=z- ~s4s@mza-
reuer.--out court hphee during The pre-
sent week haa been the theatre 81 scenes
highly entertaining to the etfioea and srahaa''
LAYING world. Matters which should never
he agllated bat in seeret sessIeu 81 the tain'y
circle, have been called out Undergraduates J
before the popular gaze, aud held np ~ us'
,er,e,l attitudes to the teusure az fidteu'e oI
those who only feel deeply wien deeply
,,uehed themselves. The case TO wlleh We
alluae was que involving a considerable sam
ef money, and during tia investigation VA
hooks and accounts Of TIVE ot three iatill e.
tho manner and means hs which said families
had lived, sc, Sc, were all rsnsaFEed at dle'
eretien, Such a course may at t'nee he ne
seeRary 10 the attainment Of justices sn' hus'
nj all ,imes be painfully disasfeeas'e 10 Inc
eensi,iye and iust
a Our ehIeut, however, 10 naming 'hta eaHe
here, IL neither to give a history Of IL mertla'
or e~rittetsu The pEsptiety oi making the court
room the arena for terminating family teads
II 10 always more pleasant to praipe than cot'
denim. to "tieklc than to scratch and henre
we gladly drop tho eHse iteelf to speak OF The
ability aud aadrsas displayed by the council
Ia its management, II was conducted for the
~n,alnllr by Samuel Dalton, Esq Of ST. Franz
~eisyille, and for The defendant by las. NJ. Elan,
Esa, of this place. Me-. Elan IL a well'es.
tablished practitioners. favorahly known
throughout the district az a man of strong
mind. interchangeable attention TO business, and
a complete master Of the forms and theory oil
practice. On this occasion all the powers Of
his sleage hammer intellect were called into
requiaitien, and his obligations t. his client
we're discharged in a manner not TO de'fae,
from his former reputation
Mr.. Dalton Ia a gentleman, until now. we
believe. but little known at this court, or a
EMAIL, delicate, youthful, but extremely grace.
tul peesols il was the original opinion of a ma.
icrity Of the bar AZ well as Of the audience,
that the ,seight Of counsel was all ON the side
Of the defendant, The address, however, with
which Mr.. n. sustained himself through the
tedious operation Of taking the testimony, tend.
cd greatly TO nnsettle the opinion OF many, as
To the lalg,naat Of the ''aalanee of power
But it was only tho ''summing up o. the case,
that the audience were made acquainted with
the scope and volume of mind which Nature
now and then congresses into a small space,
The argument of Mr.. Dalton was in every re.
speet mastery acute, profound, logical, and
polished; mild and courteous in it's bearing
Ia his opponen,, critical and exact in the exa.
mination OF the testimony, eopious and learned,
Ae, in nowisa tedious, in reference to authn.
rites. 1t has seldom been our lot to hear a
more able or elegant effort, Every word en-
played was selected with a nice regard 10
chastity and force, his enunciation was sue.
cinet and perfect, and bis sentences, all har-
monious, framed in such happy obedience to
tho rules of elocution that the most tastidious
taste must have been at loss TO discover a
fault,
DC course il is not our pFerogatIve (nor is
I, mere eur inclinatien) to speak Of the merits
Of this case. But the efforts of gentlemen in
eur courts, are as much the property ofthe press
AZ are those OF our legislators or preachers /;
and we take no less pleasure in hes,owing
praise where it belongs, than in discovering
where it is due.
Judge Johnson, after a patient hearing,
maintaining in his usual style tho dignity Of
the court. passed judgment in &asor Of the
plaintiff