The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-03-07
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amiuble and estImabIe man. OF the lat.
ter gentleman it has been said that he
never lost legal case! This seems in
credible. But when once asked Phil.
AIDE phia friend how he thought certain
important case would be decided in The
Courts OF Pennsylvania, he replied. by
asking me if John Sergeant was on either
side? Yes, said, on the side Of the
defendants Then, said he, they will
gain H.. On the first trial, in which Mr..
S. was not engaged, the defendants lost it.
Ga the second, the plaintiffs lost it by
decision as grossly unjust as ever pro.
ceeded from the intellect OF faIIible man.
But the suspicious star OF that successful
counsellor must retain its ascendancy in
the judicial armament. Will it be so in
the Girard case? Time will soon deter.
mine.
In the personal size of the respective
eminent, lawyers engaged in this trial,
there is a balancing Of weights. Mr..
Binney is tall, well proportioned in his
frame, which is crowded by head COW
cred with hair of such whlteness, that in
bestowing the hoary gift. Time seems TO
have aimed somewhat to initiate the old
en- fashion Of powdering, If indeed there
were not some portions OF that ornamen-
tai article investing that intellectual cra-
mum. Mr.. Sergeant is small man,
who would be passed in the street as un.
worthy of notice, if magnitude of person
were 10 be the condition of securing at.
tention. Then on the other side, Mr..
Jones is still more diminulve, and if he
did not escape notice, it would be because
the observer would pause 10 pity, and
wonder that while nature had been SO
generous TO his inner man, she had been
so niggardIy to the outer man.
But then to set all right, next and last
rises 10 this case the massive form and
towering brow of Webster, whose inward
and outward man do so finely orrespond.
His dark eyes, overhung with those pom.
derous brows, and the black hair, now be-
coming more thin and beginning TO be
sprlnk'ed with grey, remind US that it is
the same great public speaker, who in
1886 filled the Senate house with the
tones of that voice, which has ever been
lifted up for the Constitution, the Union
and Liberty. Mr.. w. looked very well
on this occasion. and if his bright olive
suit contrasted its hue with the sky-blae
silken waiscoat which he wore, and over
which danged golden watch guard,
(not emitting costly breast-pin) showed
that he was even more particular than
formerly in arranging his person, they
could not be SAID to divert the attention
from the powerful workings OF his intel.
Iect,
About the time he commenced his argu.
N ent, the intelligence reached him Of the
death of Boston of a grandchild about six
years of age, of whom it is sad he was
very fond. 1t is natural that this event of
Providence should have sohoned his mind
and awakened bis sensihilies, and in fact
have caused him to speak of the doctrines
and the spirit Of the Christian religion
with feeling aud a fervency (Ior he
spoke of its power 10 console in death,
and Of its kindness and condescension to
little chidren) unusual in courts of JUS
tice, and especially In Il Court of pure
law, where no jury is seen, in the mem
befs of which we might suppose there
would be more Of intellect than of sympa.
thy.
~ The story of a murder in Topsham
is put at rest. After long examination,
the persons implicated have been DIS
charged VI. Watchman.