The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-07-18

cheeks, you would have taken him for a
mere man Of marble OF human form cary
ed in ice. Even his dim dreamy eyes were
invisible between those gray, shaggy eye.
brows. But now, at last, he rises before
the bar railing-not behind-and SO ncai
to the wondering jury that he might have
touched the foreman with his long bony
finger. With eyes still half shut, and stand.
ing rigid as pillar ofiron, his thin lips, in
msasureless scorn, slightly part, and the
voice comes forth. At first low and sweet
insinuating itself through the brain as an
artless tune, winding its way into tie deep
est heart like the melody Of a magic meant.
alton, while the speaker proceeds, without a
gesture or the least sign of excitement, &c
tear in pieces the argument Of Ashley, that
dissolved and melted away at his touch like
frost before the sunlight. Every one look
ed surprised. His logic was at once SC
brief and SO lumiuously true, that the rud-
est peasant could easily comprehend it.
Anon he came TO the dazzling wit of the
poet lawyer, Pike. Then the curl of his lip
grew sharper--his sallow face kindled up,
aud lis eyes began to open-dim and
dreamy no longer, but vivid as lightning,
red as FIRE globes, and glaring like twin
meteors The whole soul was in his eye
the full heart streamed out upon his face,
in five minutes Pixies wit seemed the foam
of folly, and his finest satres horrible pro-
family, when contrasted with the inimtable
sallies and extermina;ing sarcasms of the
stranger, interspersed win j.sts and an.
ecdotes that filled the forum with roars oil
laughter. .......
Without as much as bestowing an allu.
sion TO Prentiss,he turned short on the per-
jured witnesses of Hopkins, tore their testi-
mony to atoms, and hurled in their faces
such terrible inv ectives that all trembled as
with an ague, and two OF them actually fed
dismayed from the court house.
The excitement of the crowd was becom-
ing tremendous. The united life and soul
appeared to hang on the burning tongue Of
the stranger. He inspired them with the
powers Of his own passions. He saturated
'hem with the poison Of his own malicious
feelings. l'e seemed to have stolen nltur's 5
long hidden secret attraction, which rose and
fell, and boiled in bilows as he>chose. But
his greatest triumph was TO come. .
His-eyes began to glance furtiyely at the
assassin Hopkins, and his lean taper fingers
slowly assumed the same direction. He
hemmed in the wretch with a circumvala-
ton Of strong evidence and impregnable ar.
gument, cutting off all hope of escape. lie
piled up huge bastions of insurmountable
facts. ~ sas arsa4.H ..aa-.....
He dug beneath the murderer and SLAM
derer's feet bitches Of dilemmes; such as no
sophistry could oyereap, and no stretch ol
ingenuity eyade; and having thus as one
might say, impounded his victim, and girl
him about like a scorpion in! circle of fire,
he stripped himself to the work Of massacre.
Oh!then, but it was a vision both glorious
and dreadful to behold the orator, His ac-
tons, before graceful as the wave Of gold
en- willow to the breeze, grew impe!uous as
the motion Of an oak in the hurricane
His voice became trumpet tilled with wild
whirlpoo!S, deafening the ears with crashes
of power. and yetintermingled all the while
with a sweet undersong of the softest cad.
ence. His face was rod as adrunkard s.
his forehead gl)wed lile heated furnace
his face looked haggard like that Of a man-
ac, and ever and anon he flung his long bo,
ny arms on high, as if grasping after thun
delbolts He drew picture Of murder il
such appalling colors, that in comparison
he'll itself might be considered beautiful. -
He painted the Sian der so black, that th,
sun seemed dark atnoonday, when shining
on such an accursed monster; and then Ii
so fixed both portraits on the Shrinking
brow of Hopkins, that henailed them ther
forever. The agitation of the audienc
nearly amounted to madness. p 9ia. gdl
/ All at once the speaker decended from
his perilous height His voice walled ou
for the murdered dead and the liying--th
beautiful Mary, more beautiful every mo
ment as the tears flowed faster--till mel
wept, and lovely women sobbed like chill
cren. .niaigz '1a .s,aiaeigaI sl,l b elso
He cloaed with a strong exhortation t
the Jury; through thento the bystanders.--
He entreated the panel, after they shoul'
bring in the verdict for the plaintiff, not i
offer violence to, the defendant, howeve
richly he might deserve it; ir other words
It'not to lynch the villain Hopkins, but t
leave his punishment to God" This wa
the most Iartfu trick osall and best calcula
ted to insure vengeance. .ooao h., :. .,.Fr
Il have listened TO Clay. Webster, an
Calhoun---to .Dewry, Tying, and Bascom--
but have never heard,anything in the form
of sublime words even remotely approxima
ting the eloquence Of John Taylor-ma
as mountain, api wildly rushing as q eat
aract Of fire,6' And this isthe opinion Of a.
Vl,o ever heard this marvellous man. daG