Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-01-05

) Then without so much as bestowing
an allusion on Prentiss. he turned short
on the witnesses of Hopkins. tore their
| testimony into atoms. and hurled in their
faces such terrible invectives that all
them actually fed dismayed from the
court house.
The excitement of the crowd was be-
coming tremendous. Their united life
, and soul appeared to hang on the bur
ming tongue Of the stranger. He inspired
than with the poison of his own mali
cious feelings. He seemed to have sto-
Zen Natures long forbidden secret Of at
traction. He was the sun of the sea, of
all thought and emotion. which rose and
FELL and boiled in pillows as he chose
But his greatest was to come.
His ere began to glare furtively at the
assassin Hopkins. ac his lean taper finger
slowly assumed lie same direction de
hemmed the wretch with a strong circu.n-
valla,ion Of strong evidence and imprcg-
nable argument, cutting off all hope of
escape. He piled up huge bsstions Of
insurmountable facts.
He dug beneath the murderer and SLAM
derer's feet bitches Of dilemmas. such as
no sophistry could overlea?. and no
stretch of ingenuity evade: and having
thus. one might say, impounded his
victim. and girt him like a scorpion in
circle Of fire. he stripped him TO the mas
sacre.
Oh! then il was vision both glorious
and dreadful to behold the orator. His
actions before graceful as the wave Of
golden willow in the breeze. grew impet
uous as the motion of an oak in hurri
cane. His voice became trumpet. fill
ed with wild whirlpools. deafening the
ear with crashes Of power. and yet inter
mingled all the while with sweet un-
/ dersong of the softest cadence. His face
was as red as drunkard's--his forehead
glowing like a heated furnace--his coun
;enance looked laggard like that OF ma
niac--and ever and anon flung his long
bony arms on high. as if grasping after
thunderbolts. He drew picture Of muir
DER in such APPALLING colors. that in COM
parison. hell itself might be consideied
beautiful. He painted the slanderer so
black that the sun seemed black at noon
day when shining upon such an accursed
monster aud then he fixed both portraits
upon the shining brow of Hopkins. and
be nailed them there forever. The agit-
alton Of the audience nearly amounted to
madness.
All at once the speaker descended from
his perilous height--his voice walled out
for the murdered dead and living--the
beautiful Mary more beautiful every mo-
ment. ss her tears flowed fnster-till men
wept. and women sobbed like children.
He closed by strange exhortation TO
the jury. and through them to The bystan-
ders He en,reated the panel, after they
should bring in their verdict for the
plaintiff. not to offer violence to the de-
fendant, however richly he might deserve
it--in other words, mot 10 Lynch the
villain Hopkins, bu; leave his punish
ment 10 God" This was the NEST artful
trick Of all. and best calculated to insure
vengeance.
The jury rendered verdict for fifty
thousand dollars-and the night after
ward. Hopkins was taken off his bed by
lynchers. and beaten almos, to death.
AS the court anjourned. the stranger
made known his name, and called the at
ten,ion Of the people with the announce
ment-"John Taylor will preach here this
evening at early candle light
The crowd. of course. all turned out,
and Tay ylors sermon equalled. lit did not
surpass the splendor of his forensic effort.
This is no exaggeration. have listened
to Clay, Webster and Calhoun--to Dewy
Tying and Bascom-bu; have never heard
any thing in the form Of sublime words
even remotely approximating the eIo-
quence Of John Taylor-massive as a
mountain. and wildly rushing as cata-
ract of fire. And this is the opinion of
all who have heard the marvellous man.
The editor of the New Orleans Picay-
une. speaking of "model subscriber" TO
that paper. says:
We have on our subscription list the
name of one gentleman who has taken .he
weekly Picayune ever since 1889. and has
not once during that whole period. that
we remember. found fault with the ap-
pearance or contents Of the paper. or rom
planned of being irregularly served by the
mails. He paid his first years subScrip
tion in advance. and has not paid any
thing since.
There are three kinds Of business that
person can engage in-whoesale. retail.
and curtai. The former is the more fash
ionsble. The latter. however. pays the
hest. The people about coming out"
with four bays and tiger. will please
take notice.
"Mr. Smith. you said yon boarded at
the Columbian Hotel six months; did you
foot your bill?"
No. sir, but what amounted to the
same thing-the landlord footed me-"