Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-11-25

in tempest, and Aattered mysefit would be
But malice is cunning He had idea Of letting me
of so easily.
He commenced by saying that he had been some
years in the practice Tie would not say he was an old
man that would be in bad taste perhaps. The young
gentleman WHO had lust closed his remarkable 81 eech
he poetic ciusion OF rgaaroe, whatever else
IL might be called, if indeed any could 10 safely
given his motley mixture OF incongi uus slang-the
young gentleman evidently did not think he was an old
for he could hardly have be- guilty oil such rank
ndecency as TO have treated age with such dsrep sc
he would not say with such insuherabe imPertncnce,
and We: 'I am, he continued, of age enough to reco
ect IL had charged my memory with so inconsde a
bic an event. the day oil his birth and then was In full
practice in this house. confess though, gentle
men, old enough TO remember the period when
Youths first appearance at the bar not signalized
Nv impertinence towards his seniors and when public
opinion did think hsulen bombast and horid trash
picked out of fifth rate romances and namby-pamby
hymes, redeemed by the upstari sauclness OF raw
popniaw, towards the experienced member oi the pro-
fesson he dsgraced. And yet, to some extent. this
ranting youth may be right am not old IN that sense
which disables from defending myself here, by
words elsewhere f need be by blows and that this
young gentleman shall right well know before have
done with him. You will bear in mind, gentleman that
xhat ! say is in selfdefence-that did not begin this
quarrel-thaf it was forced me and that am bound
by restraints OF courtesy OF respect or OF kind
ness ct him charge to the account Of his own rash
and rudness whatever he receives in return there
for
Let me retort on this youth that he is worthy ad
oil his butcher client. ne Will
weapons Of his barb-rous trade, and lrings into his
s Ii the reeking udor Of his clients slaughter house
"Perhaps something Of this congenialiiy commended
him TO the notice Of his worthy client and this his
first retainer; and wonder. for when heard his
vehement roaring, we might have supposed his client
ha brought his unruy bu-caf into the cont tn
defend him. had not tie matter OF the roaring con-
WINGED us the animal more remarkable Tor the
length OF his ears than even the lower Of bis hugs
Perhnps the young gentleman has taken his retainer.
aud contracted for buichcring my client on the same
forms his client contracts in his ne-ihat is on the
shares But think, gentleman he will lind the
tact dirty than profitable job. Or, perhaps II
,sphi not be unchaiitabe TO suggest that his client
seems tn be pretty well up the business Of saring 9th
err people's bacon may have desired far possible,
TO save his own; and therefore, turning from members
of the bar who would have charged him for their
vices according their value took this occasion of get
ting of ofhs stale wares for has not Shakespeare
ssid-(the ce tleman will allow TO quote Shak
speare too while yet his reputation survives his bar.
barous moulhing Of th poot's words)-he know an
attorny " who would defend for starved hen
or leg Of mutton ly-blown.' trust however, what
ever was the contract that the gentle will make
his equally worthy Glen stand up 10 II; for should
like that occasion it might be said the excellent
butcher made TO psy for his s,cine.
Il find il difficult, gentlemen 10 reply 10 any part OF
the young mans effort except his argument, which is
the smallest part in compass and next to his pahos the
most amusing His figures OF speech some OF them
quite good aud have been considered by the best
Judges for the last Thousand years. must confess,
that as 10 these find other fault than that they were
badly applied and ridcuously pronounced aud this fur
Their fault that they have become so commonplace by
constant that unless some new vamplng felicity
Of appicatOn be given them. they tire nearly much
his original matter-rideiicet, that matter which
b ing ridiculous than We have heard before,
carries internal evidence Of IFS heng bis Indeed
il was never heard tell when the gentleman REQUIRED
TO his own ideas. He is like cat-brd-the only toll
cradle discord she makes being her notesthough
she gets we'll enough long she copies and cobbcs
the songs of other warblers.
''But gentlemen, If this young orators argument
amusing what shall say OF his pathos! What farce
equalled the fun Of il! The play of "rhe Liar"
probably approaches To itno only the humor
but in the veracous character of The incidents from
which the humor Such lace--so wo bcgone
whimpering If the short period since he
logged at school, probably in reference to those eggs
falsely charged the hound puppy had neither obte
rated the remembrance Of his Juvenile aclion the
looks he bore when Le endured il.
sThere something exquisite in this picture of the
woes the wasting grief his disconsolae client, the
butcher Hgginbotham, mourning--as Rachel mourned
for her chilren-for his character, because not
Gentlemen look at him. Why he weighs twelve stone
noto He has three inches of Fat his ribs this mnute
He would make as many links Of sausage as any hog
that sqnealed at midnight in his slaughter pen and
has lard enough in him cook ALL Look at his face
Why his chops mind hungry ol lowls and greens
II this is shadow, in the name nf proprety, why didn't
he show himself. when in flesh the last fair, beside
the Kentucky that more honest way oi making
living than stealing hogs. But Hig is pning in grief
| wonder the poetic youth his learned counsel-did
let conceament like the worm i the bud, prey upon his
damask check He looked like patience a monu-
ment smiling grief-er beef should rather say.
But, gentlemen, probably am wrong il may he that
that tenderhearted sensitive, butcher lean before
and like Falsta throws the blame of his fat sorrow
and signing which has pulled him up like bladder
(Here Higginbotham left in dsgnst)
There, gentlemen he goes, Harding the lean earth
he walks along Well has DR.. Johnson said: WHO
kills fat oxen should himself be fat Poor Hiel stuffed
like one of his blood puddings, with dropsical
r. Of
Swinks money cure. Well, grief pulls him up,
don't wonder that nothing but depicting anoher man
can cure him. as
ssAnd now gentlemen | come to the blood md thunder
part of this young gentlrman's harangue; empty and
vapid; words and nothing else. IL any part of his
rigmarole wnder than any other part this it.
He tured himself into small cascade, making great
deal Of noise make n great deal Of roth iumbng
roaring foamng the shallower it all the nosier it
seemed He freted and united his brows he beat the
air and he Moderated always phasising the anng-
less words most loudly; he pulled, swelled out and
bowed Off until he seemed like a bellows all brass
and wind How he mouthed it, these vanous stage
players, ranting ont fustian in barntheafer mmicng
who steals my purse steals trash q don't deny iL
IT'S something (query y nothing (exactly)
'Ts mine twas his, and has been slave to thousands
hat he who flches from my good name, robs me of
that which not enrcheth him. (uot in the least but
makes poor indeed Gust So but whether any poorer
than before he parted with the encubrance
matter)
But the young gentlman refers to his youth He
ought not TO reproach us OF maturer in that indirect
way wond have suspected II Of him, him Of
It. he had told il: indeed, from hearing him speak
we were prepared to give him credit for almost any
length of ears But does the youth remember that
Grotius only seventeen ~hen he in full practices
that he attorney general twenty two and what
is Grous to this greater lighl Not the burning of my
smoke house to the conhagration Of Moscow!
s.And vet, young Grotius tells us in the breath
that he never such SANDER in the course Of his
practice? Wonderful indeed. seeing that his practice
has all been done within the last hours Why hear
him talk you would suppose that he n old Cont
mental lawyer, grown grey in the servee-H-is pra-c