Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-05-12

bore when he endured il. --n
"There was something exquisite in
this picture of the woes, the wasting
grief OF his disconsolate client, the butch.
er iiggenbotham, mourning--as Rachel
mourned for her children--for his char
acter, because IL soas NOT. Gentlemen,
look at him. Why, he weighs twelve
stone noW. He has three inches of fat
on his ribs this minute! lie would make
as many links of sausage as any hogs
that ever squealed a. midnight in his
slaughiering pen, and has lard enough in
him to cook it all. Look at his facet
Why, his chops remind hungry man
of jowls and green's. If this is shad-
ow, III The name of propriety, why did mt
he show himself, when in flesh. al the
last fair, beside the Kentucky OK; tina,
were a more honest way of making a
living than stealing hogs. But Hlg is
pining in grief! wonder the poetic
youth, his learned counsel, did not quote
Shakespeare again He never told his
woe--but 'let concealment like the worm
in the bud prey upon the damask cheek.
lie looked like patience on monument
smiling at grief-or beef, should rather
say. But, gentlemen, probably | am
wrong, II ray be that this tender hearted
butcher was lean before, and like Falstaif
throws the blame of his fat on sorrow
and signing. which, "has pulled him up
like bladder. Here lIiggenboiham
left in dlsgust.) -.s ...-- ..
There, gentlemen. he goes, lardlng
the lean earth as he walks along Well
has DR.. Johnson said, who kills fat OK.
en-. should himself be fat Poor Hig!
stuffed like one of his own blood pud-
dlngs. with dropsical grief which moth
lng shors of ten thousand dollars of
Swlnk's money can cure. Well, as
grief pu!is him up, don't wonder that
nothing but depicting another man can
cure him. 5a
And now, gentlemen, come to the
blood and thunder part of this young
geiIeman's harungne, empty and vapid,
words are nothing else. If any part OF
his rlgmarole was wider than any other
part, this was il. lie turned himself in
TO cascade. making great deal OF noise
to make great deal OF iroth; tumbling.
roaring, toaming. the shallower il ran, oil
The nolsier it seemed He freaed and
knitted his brows; he bea, lhe air and he
vociterated, always emphasizing the
meaningless words most loudly; he puff,
ed, swelled out, and blowed off, until he
seemed like new bellows, all brass and
wind. How ne mouthed it--as those
vIlalnous stage players, raining out fus-
slan in barn lheaser mimlcing--sWho
steals my purse steals trash I don't
deny IT, 'fis something (querry?)
nothing (exaclly. Ills mine; twas
his, and has been slave TO thousands
but he who filehes from me my good
name, robs me of that which not enrich
eth him mot in the least but makes me
poor indeed Gust so, bu, whether any
poorer than before he parted with the
circumference. is another matter.
But the young gentleman refers to his
youth. lie ought not TO reproach US OF
mature age in THAI indirect way; no one
would have suspected it of him. or him
of it, if he had not told it; indeed, from
hearing him speak, we were prepared TO
give him credit for almost dny length OF
ears. Blu, does not the youth remember
that Grotus was only seventeen when he
was in full practice. aud that he was at
.orney general at twenty 1.-TWO: and what
is Gro,ius ID this greater light! Not the
burning Of my smoke house to the con.
ilagrallon Of Moscow!
And yet, young Grotus tells US in the
next breath, that he never knew such a
slanderer in the cuurce of his practice?--
Wonderful, indeed. seeing that his prac-
tice has all been done within the last six
hours. Why to hear him talk, you
would suppose that he was an old Con,
,inental lawyer, grown gray in the sery-
ice. Hrs p.r.a-c-ti-c-e! Why, he is
just in his legal swadding clothes! His
pracfieeu But | don't wonder he cant
see the absurdi,y of such talk. How
long does il take one of the canine tribe,
after birth, TO open their eyes!
He talked, too, of outside influence;
OF The pp6Hc expectations, and all that
sort OF demagoguism. observed no
evidence of any popular demonstrations
in his favor, unless il be tailor | saw
stamping his feet: but whether that was
because he had sat cross.legged so long
he wanted exercise, or was rejoicing
because he had got orders for new sui,
or a prospect nt payment for an old
one, the gentleman can possibly tell bet
ter than can. Here Hicks left l.
However, il this case Is TO be decided
by the populace here, the gentleman will
allow me the benefit Of writ of error 10
the regimental muster to be held next
Friday at Reinhart's distillery.
'Bu, | suppose he ment to frighten
you into verdict bv initiating that the
mob. f.cnzied by his eloquence, would
tear you to pecss ii you gave verdic,
for defendant; like the equally eloquen,
barrister out West. who, concluding a
case, said. Gentlemen, my client is as
innocent Of stealing ,ha, co,ting as the
sun at MONDAY, and if you give il again
him his brother Sam Retchins, next
muster, will maui every mothers son oi