The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-02
A Sessions Law yer at the Academy Of Music

A Sessions Lawyer at the Academy Of Music
We republish in another column tie speech OF
ex-Judge Whiting at the Academy Of Music as
reported, or at least revised by himself. We re-
publish il at his own request he considers no
doubt that second publication of his first cam
paign speech win ensure his success at this cleo
ton And We do so, likewise, because we are
DESTROYS that the people of New York should
fully appreciate the Intellectual caibre and the
social standing of the candidate who claims their
sufIrages on the ground Of Rointless municipal
reform
What Mr.. Whiting has been we all know
Even persons the least familiar with the courts
have been there, or have had friends who have
been there, on the occasion OF display of Little
Bt.ers" Perhaps every adult New Yorker has
heard of the matchless impudence aud ferocity
with which he was wont TO bully an unfortunate
prisoner or a reluctant witness. Snap, of the
well known firm of Quirk Cannon Il Snap, Old
Bailey lawyers has been compared to Mr..
Whiting as he was in his best days; but poor
Snap, though in manner, as Warren describes
him, he must have resembled Mr.. Whiting, had
knowledge OF men which the eX-Judge
has net; and besides, he was far from
setting the overweeniDg estimate upon bis
own abilities which Mr.. Whiting seems 10
place upon bis. Snap had his faults; poor dog
we believe that he was hanged at last (Which, up
10 the present time constitutes further df-
ersnce between him and ex-Judge Whiting:
but Snap never set up for Mayor, on the ground
OF his long intimacy with thieves and pickpockets
and his familiarity with the jargon of session
courts and foot pads.
Still, allowing for the difference in favor of
Snap, many persons think Whiting modelled
himself upon m; and no doubt the resemblance
is traceable. Such, then, is the person who is
put forward by the Municipal Reform Committee
$50 caied) to I'll the Office OF Mayor Of this city;
and such are his claims TO the votes Of the peo-
pie. The speech which We publish elsewhere
shows TO what extent these claims are still jus
tilted.
To expect that n man whose experience has
been that of Judge Whiting could be q refined
gentleman or courteous speaker, would
be perhaps unreasonable: by dint Of bully
iug pickpockets, and frightening poor, half
starving women into fits even the m.ldest L. IN
viii acquire brutal habits and o brutal h. 81.
The utmost that could have been expected
would have been that Judge Whiting would
control bls natural propensiues, and preserve -
cautious reserve on OCCASIONS Of public impor.
aBce But there was reason to hope that . Eia1
who had flied 70 many conspicuous stations as
F,,Ia asrf,rx
have been quite frequently brought into comnu-
uicaton with polished and gcntlgnanly society
would have learnt when md where . was ont ~
place to give the rcins 10 brutal temper, ami
bsiore What society il was proper or improper 10
il bulge in coarse or proianc language. We re-
gret TO lind, from the speech rcpablishtd else
where that thirty years official experience, &c
quir,d at what cost Of snberviency, toa1yisn
and faiihlessness to men aud principles the vete-
ran Office seeker o: TammIny Hall knogs BE-.
himself, have not 'aught the eX.Judge this simple
elementary Lesson OF worldly wisdom His speech
j. the trash which a petuiant. IN bred collerian
might make to debating society; il IL neither
the composition Of o scholar. nor the outburst Of
a man Of integrity, nor the effnsion Of gentle
nan. III y The gfoan, and the groal and The
whine Of The sessions lawyer, the petty prosecutor
Of drunken Irishwomen when brough, face TO face
Nth the truth and the people: aud II Judg,
Whiting bad never done anything but speak it
ard repeat it at the minor theatres, az he is H.
ipe-hs would have proved himself utterly uudt
to FIJI position in which he might bo called NJ.
OH to represent New York