American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-11-13
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH
Hon. Rufus Choate.

Hon. Rufus Choate.
This gentleman, it is said, in grand Wing
demonstration at Faneuil Hail. Boston, on Fri
day night of last week, took strong ground in
favor of the Union and compromise measures
Of the last Congress. This is well, and Mr..
Choate will not regret it in the future.
By the way, here is sort of a description Of
him, written by we don't know whom, nor
whether he sat for the portrait:
Rufus Choate is q picture to look at, and q
crowder to spout He is about seven feet six,
or six feet seven, in his socks; supple as an eel,
and wiry as a corkscrew His face is q COM
pound Of wrinkles, 'yaller japders, and juris-
prudence. He has small, keen, piercing black
eyes, and head like mammoth goose-egg
big end up; his hair black and curly, much re-
sembling o bag Of wood in admirable disor-
DER or brush heap in gale of wind His
body has no particular shape, and his wit and
legal sdodges have set many judge in a
snicker, and so confounded jurors as to make it
almost impossible for them to speak plain Eng
lish or tell the truth for the rest of their natu-
raj lives.
ssRufus is great on twisting and coiling him
self up, squirming around, and prancing, jump
ing, and kicking up the dust when steam's up.
His oratory is first rate, and his arguments in
genious and forcibe. He generally makes q
ten-strike- judge and jury down at the end Of
every sentence. He is great on howery express
sions and high-falootin flub dubs.' Strangers
mostly think he is crazy, and the rest scarcely
understand what it's all about. He invoices his
time and elocution four thousand per cent over
ordinary charges for having ones self put
through course of law. Rufus Choate is about
fifty years of age, perhaps over He is consid-
cred the ablest lawyer in New England, or per-
haps the United Safes. His handwriting can't
be deciphered without the aid of pair of COM
passes and quadrant. His autography some
what resembles the map of Ohio, and looks like
piece Of crayon sketching, done in the dark
with three -pronged fork. He has been in the
Senate, and may be, if he has time to fish for
it, President of the United States"
1t is said that Rufus is to become Attorney
General as soon as Mr. Webster resigns, Mr..
Crittenden being transferred to the State De-
partment.
RUM DID IT!-Charles Quinn has been SEN
fenced at Troy for the murder of Michael Glea-
son. The Times says:
His honor Judge Watson called upon the
prisoner to stand up, and said: Have you
any thing to say why the sentence of the law
should not be pronounced against you"
! The prisoner then arose and said:
| Your honor / am not guilty Of murder. II
pds a drunken Jroii: 4 acas nasulted and stabbed
him"
Judge Watson then proceeded to sentence the
prisoner: "Quinn," he remarked, +" you have
been tried and convicted of the awful crime of
murder You were tried by an impartial jury.
Every facility has been offered you to disprove
the evidence of your guilt. But you have ut
terly failed to disprove that evidence. / felt
for you, but | confess my heart died within me,
when | saw that your defence did not even ex-
hibit an excuse in your case, nor shake in any
degree the evidence of your guilt 1t was in
you csrse of clear, premeditated, and assassin
like murder. You have had able counsel to as
sist you-a jury in which every advantage was
extended to you in their empanneling The
verdict has been rendered. 1t pronounces you
guilty of the crime of murder. You have had
sister whose undying love has been your
solace when the crushing power of evidence
was against you, and who could not see, as
others saw, your guilt. You have mother
whose heart is agonized at this awful calamity.
But all could not save you. Your guilt was too
clear to admit of doubt. You have been con-
victed upon the most clear and convincing tes-
timony. The law imposes upon me the neces-
sity of pronouncing the sentence, which, in its
execution, will remove you to the presence of
the great Judge of all.
"The sentence of the law is that you be re-
moved hence to the place of execution; and on
the twenty sixth day of December ne&, be-
tween the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon
and four o'clock in the afternoon of that day,
you be hung By the neck until you are dead-and
may the Lord have mercy on your soul! !"
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