The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-12

BILE eloquent advocate, all the object OF
ur warmest admiration as the kind and confaing friend
he honorable and chvac gentleman he had secured
life conate and lasting regards In our sorrowu reflections
lpon his departure om the active scenes life we can truly
ay That lawyer Of ex ensve aud profound requirements
an orator Of rare powers of augmentation and of bril-
fancy, man OF unsued homer patriot OF eent de
voon aud undaunsd courage and friend whose generosity
no bord b,s rrer,afureIy ,sse1 from the theatre of
his usefulness and his fame.
The intellectual eudowmentg Of Mr. Prentss presented
example, in which great logical powers and the
most vivid Imagination were happily blended. With all his
readiness in debate, he never failed when opportunity
offered TO enter into the aboriOus investigations to OBJ
tain the mastery of subject If he frequently ought
amuse he rarely failed at the time to instruct audi
ence The Fapidy wi which he seized the strong points
Of case added 10 his untirng assduiy rendered him all
times a most formidable Adversary
In happy exhibition of exemporaneous eoQuence-in
striking LIMITATIONS by rand and harmonious succession OF
brilliant metaphors he was rarely if ever eSceed But
those who regarded him as merely eloquent declaer,
widely mistaken in the innate of hspowers His honor.
able zeal ia the assertion Of the rights of client his high
pride his sspec for an adversary and the court
promped him IN all cases of importance to a dlgent and
careful preparation His own wonderful powers of ura.
ton were at all times supported by the mandates of
authority and the facility with which he to call
his aid the thoughts or euson of Others proves him have
been student of an extraordinary memory and OF unrem
ting diligence His ideas Intellectual excellence were formed
by an attentive study Of the best models and those who en-
loved with him the pleasures Of social intercourse are aware
what humility he paid his
the shrine of ancient genius No man with all his admiration
of modern excellence was more prompt in according super
orty to those master spirits of antiquity whom modern genius
with all its boosted progress has yet gnaly failed to out
lightning like rp in the race of true greatness and glory
1t was in 1916 that Mr. P,enss removed from the State of
Mississippi TO this city with the view to permanent resi-
deuce among ~, and for the purpose of pursuing the praC
oil his profession. He with brilliant reputation
and an orator. and think it will be admitted by every
candid mind that the public voice in other sections of the
had not q
tics His almost Unprecedented success as an advocate be-
lore the tribunals OF Mississippi his eloquent efforts in the
political arena, before large popular assembages in different
parts OF the country and in the Hal Of the House of Repre-
anatives ofte United States had gai7ed him universal ap
pIause and Indspuaby established ms claims 10 the possess
sion of talents Of the highest order 1t good fortune
be present at the Capitol at Washington in 1888 during the
long md exciting debate which arose out OF the Mississippi
contested election The most prominent champions who
himself, then claiming his seat, and Mr. Legare, the 5n-
guhed lur and scholar from rOuh Gar JQa 1t neither
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