Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-02-25
John TayIor:
A Tale of u,e Early Pulpit and Bar

SOhi ~ tNf N09 fliOCIlStu w le1l III NOull
Of lwen;y-one, 10 practice at The bar Of Phil
adelphia. He was poor, but we'll educated
and possessed extraordinary genius. The
graces Of his person, combined with the su
perioriiy of his inieIledI, enabled him ,c
win the hand of fas hionabe be dauty. :
Twelve months afierw ards. the husbana
was employed by a " lealthy firm of the
city to 90 on a mission as land age1asto the
west. As a heavy salary was otferd ID, Tay
lor bid farewell TO his Wife and infaht son.
He wrote back every week, but deceived
nol line in answer, Six months elapsed
! when the husband received lettds from
his employer ihq. explained all. Shorty
after his departure for The west. dhe wife
and her father removed 10 Missidsippi.-
There she Immediately obtained a dif force by
an act Of the Legislature, marridh again
Forthwith, AID, 10 complete the climax of
cruelty and wrong, had The name Of Tay-
lor's son changed 10 Mark-ihat Of her Sec
ond matrimonial partherl The perfdy
nearly drove Taylor insane IIi1 career,
from that period, became eccentre in the
last degree; sometimes he preached. some
times he plead al the ar; until at Hasl fe-
yer carried him off at 1 comparaIivtIy ear
ly ase.I
I can never forget my first vision
of John Taylor 1t was in th$ court
house. at Levi sburgi Conway bounty,
Arlk kansas, in the SUI inner Of ] 1IS3S.-
The occasion itself possessed terrible
interest. A fast cdncourse of spec
tators had assembled d to with ess the
trial of a young and beautiful girl, on
an indictment for murder The
Judge waited at the moment for the
sheriff to bring III t he prison 1er, and
the eyes of the impatient M altitude
all centered on the door; Will bn sud
denly astranger en- tered, hose ap-
.pearance riyeted Universal attention.
Here is his portrait-a figure, tall,
lean, sinewy, and straight asalA arrow a
face, sallow, bilious, and tFitching
necessarily with nervous irri itation; a
brow, broad, massive, sean he'd and
filled ~ith wrinkles but not from age
for he was scarcely forty; Fyes red
dish yellow, like the Yrathfll eagle,
as bright and piercing, and finally a
mouth, with lips of cast iron, thin,
eurled, cold and sneeringi the in
tense expression of which ID pked the
living embodimentof an ull lbreathed
curse. He was habited in b suit Of
new bucksEin, ornamented dfter the
fashion of Indian costume, With hues-
of every color'of the rainboT.
EIbowing his way slowly through
the crowd, and unconscious that he.
was regarded as a phenomeI on need
ing explanation, this singul lar being
advanced, and with the naughty air
of a king ascending the hrpne, seat
ed himself within the bar th fongedIas
it was with the disciples Of Coke and
Blackstone, several Of wholh it was
known, esteemed themselvfs as far
superior to those old and fal nous mast
terS.
The contrast between til / outland- t
ish garb and disdainful co hntenanc@
of the stranger, excited, ESPECIALLY,
the risibilityi of the law yerf; md thb
Junior members began a suppressed
litter, which grew louder $nd swept
the circle. They doubtless supposed
the intruder to- be some Wild hunter
of the mountaifls, who had never bd :
fore seen the ihterid u of a ball of JUS
tice. Instantly per rceivinS the cause,
and object Of the laughter he turned
his head, gradually, 50 as t$ give ea}h
laugher a loo ok-hisycllo1 eyes shpt
arrows of lightning his tongue pro-
truding through his teeth, literally
writhed like a serpent, ahd ejacula-
ting his asp-lile poison I'm a single
word: ''Savages.'' No zen 'can de-
scribe the defiant force whieh he threw
into that term, no pencil can paint
the internal fIror Of h is gtterance al
though it hardly exceeded a whisper.
But he accented every letter as if it
we're a separate emission pf fire Il lat
scorched his quivering Lip 5, laying a
horrible emphasis on thd s, both at
the beginning and end of the VIC drd
sayagesl'
/ Itwas the growl Of the red tiger
In the hiss of the rattle shake.
The general gaze, ho*d dyer, was Dir
terted by the advent of the fair plf lis
Jner. who then came in! surrounded
By her guard. The afHarition was
enough to drive saint hh hd; for there
tas a style Of beauty tP Pewilder fhe
iamest imagination, ahp melt the
foldest heart, leaving in both inlagin-