Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1851-11-26

\ Iork knickerbocker. gives the following item
relative to the past in the 4h congressional dis
,rict, in this State. 1t is rich:
Il have some good times in perusing YOU,
Gossip with readers; and especially did en-
JOY mys If hugely in reading some extracts from
the memoirs Of WILLIAM DELANEY PATroN, with
whom formed acquaintance some years
since. during a residence in Belmont Co, Ohio
Immediately adjoining the baIliwick in which
the aforesaid WILLIAM DELANEY exercised the
! functions Of High Sheriff. Tie is veri,able
parsonage. assure you. His memoirs are
somewhat grandiloquent. certainly; bu, | think
he could be equal,ed. if not excelled, in the
/ Ilooser ked 'ntrv
! Il have looked in vain for copy Of an 'ad
dress to the Patriotic Voters of the Fourth Con
! gressional District written by one JOHN G
CHAPMAN, an untledged LAWYER. during an excl
ing Congressional canvass that shook the hill,
and Jared the rivers Of Indiana, about the year
! OF Goo '25. 1t begins thus Man. vain man.
cruel. credulous. prejudieed, pusanmous, and
egotsm. and the author concludes by exhorting
the free and enlightened voters to approach the
polls, and vote for ARDEN with reverence, and
dignity, and contempt The address abounds
il the most fusome laudations of his favorte
candidate, and CHAPMAN followed it up by divers
voluntary appeals 10 the voters aforesaid: till
RARIDEN. VINO could not breast the storm Of ridi-
cule called forth thereby, sent him message
/
his writing another line in his behalf! | am
sorry ] cannot find the address; but er uno disco
omnes. have said that CHAPMAN was un ged
when he wrote for the patriotic voters. or rather
to them, and compared with some Of the efforts
OF maturer years. il is as Satyr to Hyperion,
friend has promised Of his efforts
when prosecuting a poor devil who was indicted
in the Elkhart Circuit Court, and who had, as
he averred in the indictment. with force and
arms. at the said county Of Elkhart. feloniously
stolen. taken and carried away one quart Of
certain spirituous liquor, commonly called
whiskey.'-The friend promises to
reduce TO wiring and send to me a speech OF
'our hero,' when called to order our State
Senate. You shall have it.
Let me give you (for infer from the Cos
sip that you enjoy laugh after dinner) speech
that | actually heard. In the autumn of 843
made my 'star-eniree' into RI county, in
this State. with license in my pocket, obtained
about six weeks before, that authorized me Ito
practice law in the Circuit and Inferior Courts
Of Record in the State Of Indiana and between
you and me. dear kNIcK. that same license and
nine one dollar bills on the White Water Valley
Canal Company about all ! had in my
pocket. | found it a land OF thorns and thistles.
inhabited by a set of God. forsaken Arabs, who
were disposed to sneer at a young gentleman
who 'store-clo,hes and kept his boots
after having staid ono year, during which rather
fear | appeared on the stump for Clay and
Frelinghusen more frequently than | appeared
at the bar Of the ndolph Circuit Court in be-
half Of any unfortunate clients who choose TO
deliver themselves up to my tender merces.
But | wander. The attorneys were illiterate
men, who read the speeches Of Phillips. Curran
and Emmett, and made them their models; per
consequence. they ndulged in style of speak
ing which might be termed 'subloom;' style
Of oraiory not described bv Blair or Lord
h kaimpS hut which in he
Eleventh Judicial Circuit and signifies one
degree beyond the sublime.
During my sojourn. one day stepped into
the Office Of Squire Colgrove to listen to the
proceedings in a trial then and there pending, in
a suit which certain citizen, .liber ct legalis
homo had brought against another, to recover
damages for the value of certain dog which
the latter had. under circumstances of peculiar
atrocty, with force and arms, unlawluily shot.
killed. wounded injured and destroyed. 10 the
damage Of said plaintiff in the Of forty-five
dollars; at least said the declaration. Col
grove, the Justice. had very red head; the at
torney for the defence Beattie McClelland,
an Irishman, whose countenance furnished indu-
bitable evidence that its owner ha had the small
poX: the attorney for the plaintiff was one Zach.
airy Pucket. formerly Probate Judge. puckett
had offered TO introduce some evidence. which
the Justice decided was inadnssible whereup-
he made long speech to convince the Justice
!
him that The Court he loved to call his
one horse tribunal, had settled that point. and
wished TO hear no more argument. Thereupon
Pickett arose from his seat, walked slowly up
to the Justice, and fixing upon him an eye OF
fire, broke forth in this WISE
May ii please the Court The principle
which have asserted is as old as the everlast-
ing granite hills Of Ju da; i. principle high
as heaven. and low down as hell. 1t is inn ate
TO the feelin's Of every man, across the great
Sahara of whose bosom the sun of civilization
have shot lis vivifving rays, The finger Of Pro-
vidence have written il onto the human heart,
in indelible colors; and the very winds ,ha soar
at evening through the sycamore boughs bears
This great truth upon their wings. This princi-
pie is SO. out in the Declaration Of American
independence, and so!emnly reiterated in
the institution OF the United States and Sc
States of this Union. which heroic fathers
wrested from the thraldom Of the british lion
Ike a brand plucked from the burning Of a fire
tina, is not quenched. Blu, what. Sir, becomes
of this glorious principle. if | who stand here to
| assert i, TO be insuted by id red
headed Squire. and a pock-narked Irish son Of
b-!'
But won't finish the sentence. Suffice i, 10
say, ,ha, about that time Judge Pucke,. was
seen wing upon the floor. and the Justice stand
ing over him, with hair stiff. .brs,ling, and ex-
cited eye.'
| GA Virginia editor denies the report of a
lad being killed by falling one hundred and
fifty feet from the Natural Rridge where ne was