New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-04

rnncb confidence in what he said as If he had been
a witness or a Judge He spoke to them more like
Judge than an advocate-and he never was exclt'
ed or disturbed. Ezekiel Webster. who was dit
ferent man, seeing Noyes get up once in bis calm
wav TO address the jury in an important case, whis
pered to lawyer sitting by him, See how undis-
turbed Moves is,--cantharrdeS iroutd not eTc''e
him. He was one of the great New Hampshire
lawvers Richard Fletcher lived in the same town
with him. before he left the State, and owed much
of his legal sharpness no doubt, to the training ne
got by the side ofsuch an antagonist Parker Noyes
believe, did not go to MISUNDERSTANDING way
of ALL the New Hampshire greet-(besides those
that went elsewhere, Nj. Trbune.)
Old Judge Livermore, said, was another eminent
native here who had the agnamnty to stay at home
He was sometimes at the Bar and sometimes on Inc
Bench. He was not man of books, though ne oc
casionally looked into them, to see ii they agreed
with him in opinion If they did MT twas their
hunt not his and when they did differ, they say he
was oftenest in the right 1t is laid down SO and SO
in Coke Littleton please the Court, said Coun
sci once 10 him in argument Coke was an
arbitrary man, said the Judge. in reply. Sad the
Counsel, Massachusetts Judge OF some standing
was Of the same opinion, in such acase-Theophiluf
Parsons :" "Mr Parsons was a great adherent to
precedent" said the Judge. 1.-The Law is not so in
New H Hampshire And they said the Judge was
right. He would decide for himself if all the Judges
in old England and New were OF the other
opinion 1t bothered the Lawyers more than 1t did
the people. You have MT Judge on your Empire
Bencb. Mr.. Tribune, that can stand up The always
stood up, long after other New-Hampshire Judges
us'd to sit down and have the Jury stand up too,
and charge Jury, with the clear strong sense and
old Shakespeare English that our New-Hampshlre
Judge Liyermore could and that he can now II ne
has got the bodily strength left, though he might be
eighty
They sent him to Congress ut the time John han
doph was there. Randolph thought he looked
little too stately and baronia for Northerner and
thought he would make him aware that he did not
come from Old Virginia. Livermore had made
few remarks in his peculiar way-and not to MI
Randolph's mind. He Immediately got up and In
the Roanoke vein and manner, said that the gentle
man from Vermont had said so and so, &c Inc
House felt The taunt all round-all but Livermore
who not perceivine IL al all, quietly rose when Ran
the opinions of The gentleman from Rhode Island
but mus, differ from him in this instance. &c, going
directly into argument as though no mistake mao
been made Randolph put on his fur cap and went
out TO see what had become OF Juba and Syphax'
The sensation throughout the House may be imagin-
ed. Henry Clay was writing letter at the moment
On finishing sentence Of it, ne went to Judge
Liyermore and told him he had been writing to MIR
- of Philadelphia of the extinction of Randolph
MFR. Randolph did not mistake Judge Livermore'
stateafter that-though if the naughty Vrginan had
but known, it was greater honor to come from
Vermont than from his own worn-outtobacco held
the Old Dominion.
New.Hanpshire is hard State, Mr.. Tribune, and
n rough one, and cold, and poor, and small, and all
that. But more great men spring in it-and greater
erea, men than in all the other States put together
Idont know WHY it is soft It's mt because it is SC
tough State to live in all-tbat if any body can
live they must be somebody. If q man can survive
his bringing up in New. Hampshire ii is because ne
has got something in him, and if he lives through it
he is pretty TO be great-especialy II ne moves
away. There are great many OF our New. hamp
shire men that become great by going away into
other States who never would have been anything
special if they had said at home, where New Hamp
shire folks are common. Like some OF these hills
here about me-Old Moosehiock, for instance
something of a mountain it would be reckoned dowr
in Massachusetts among their Mount Holyokes and
Mount Toms 1t is thought nothing of here.
should advise people to be born in New-Hnmpshire
Mr.. Tribune, and brought up-and then I'll war
rant them any where-ihough if they are truly first
rate. never would emigrate. l would I've and die
here in the native and abiding place of your friend
THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN.
| Franconia Notch, March % 1886.