Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-06-10

! The CLAMoR AGAINST SENATOR CRlTTENDES.
The people Of Kentucky, and Il vast many OF
the editors in that and in other States, are
making themselves quite ridiculous in hunting
down Senator Crittenden for his successful de-
fence of man pronounced guilty of murder by
rumor and newspaper accounts, but declared
not guilty by jury of his country. Why single
ont MIR. Crittenden for abuse when all the most
eminent lawyers in Kentucky and elsewhere
have ALWAYS done the same and gained wealth
and celebrity in proportion to their success Ii
any man accused of murder was able to give
Henry Clay, Ben Hardin, Felix Grundy, S. s..
Prentiss and other eminent lawyers whom we
might name, fee of two thousand or more
dollars, there was almost a moral certainty OF
an acquittal. Prentiss once said, the moment
he left court house when jury, under the
influence of his splendid eloquence, pronounced
prisoner not guilty-"f this man IS not
murderer, then Cain never killed Abel -
It may be question of morals whether
lawyer of powerful and persuasive eloquence
does not incupate himself to some extent, by
clearing the guilty. But why sacrifice Critten-
den for practice allowed without censure to
| all others? It's now thrown up against him in
| the Louisville Democrat that he volunteered
| once before, and left his duties in Congress to
defend that most infamous of all swindlers,
Monroe Edwards although he did not then sue
coed, as he intended, in turning villain loose
upon society.
We remember that Daniel Webster once clear
ed a Boston broker, who had done dishonor-
able and swindling act by taking advantage of
his law knowledge and quashing the indictment
almost without an argument. The broker,
amazed at his advocates skill and overjoyed at
his escape, eagerly pressed towards Webster
and attempted to grasp his hand; but the
thunder gathered on the great lawyers brow,
and he froze his client to the soul by the words,
81 take no villain by the hand ~
[Concordia AtteNigencer.
APRIL FooLs-Our friend of the Albany
Register carries his eyes in his head as he walks
the streets of that quiet village, and narrates
many curious and amusing incidents. Some
times we suspect him of eatinventive faculties;
but the following story of an April joke is as
good as we have seen:
Speaking of the beginning of April, will any
body tell us where the custom came from which
makes every body try to fool every body on that
capricious month? We saw funny thing on
the first day of April down in Green street.
Did any body ever see any body pass by an old
hat on the sidewalk without giving it a kick
We do not believe such thing ever happened.
Well, wag seized upon this characteristic out
of which to make little amusement on 'all
fools-day." So he procured a boulder, weighing
some twenty pounds or more, and, laying it
upon the sidewalk, placed over it an ancient
weather beaten hat. The first person who
passed that way was jolly, rollicking young
man, who went whistling, 'sJordan is a hard
road to travel" and as he came opposite the
hat, placed so temptingly in his way, he gave
it a rousing kick, expecting of course to see it
60 skiving into the middle of the street. But it
didn't move, and the kicker picked up his toe in
both hands, and hoped about, and became en-
phatic in his language, in manner that made
the perpetrator of the joke dodge around the
corner. In moment afterward gentleman
came that way, with a cricket club on his
shoulder, which he brought down with swoop
against the hat, expecting to see it take hoist
over the lamp-post on the adjacent corner. But
it didn't while the cricket club as it rung against
the stone, few half way across the street, and
the striker fell to. dancing about, blowing his
fingers as if they were cold, and using good
many words not found in any religious work Of
the day. We staid long enough to see dozen
or more assaults perpetrated upon that old hat
that concealed the boulder, and every time the
attacking party got the worst Of the bargain.