The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-08-13

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imr.oasd argument = =! tAess, cut and
w ksaed webster, once, in . sentence
and al06k crush IN hours argument Of the
cufioas workman; It was most intellectually
wire drawn and hair splitting with Grecian
sophistry, and subtlety the Leontine Cor
giaae might have envieds It was about tFo
car wheels, which, 70 common eyes, hoked
9 like - two eggs bat Mr.. O1A3 by
hne line Of asgnent between tweedie DUN
and tweedle d6e, Ind discourse ON '.the
6xation Of peots, "so deep and tne as to be
lost in Obscurity, allowed the Jury that there
was Heayen-Wide difference between them.
Bot" said No Webster, and his great eyes
opened wide and black % he stared at the
big twin wheels before him, Gentlemen of
the jury, there they are--look at EN- |" and
- he pronounced THE answer in tones ofvast
volume, the distorted wheels seemed to
shrink back again.in their original SINH
larity, and the long argument on "fxation of
points" died natural death. 1t was an ex-
ample Of the ascendency of mere character
oyer mere intellecta0lity, but 60 much great
or, nevertheless, the intellectually.
You wouldby no means suspect the vol.
canic energies lurking beneath, from any
appearance on the surface. In his wan and
worn, and bloodless, but henignant face, you
would 1Se enough to suspect intellectual
treasures slowed up, and an inner life of
strange and unusual topics and movement
He looks % If he moved about in his own
mysterious solitude forever, whether in
crowds or alone; like some strange child of
land bathed in sunlight beauty, musing ev-
er on warm Arabian skies, and the burning
stars and gorgeous bloom of the hanging
gardeoD Of his home. But his mere oratoric
presence is nothing and therefore he never
impresses an audienco, especially profess.
ional one, with sense Of his greatness till
be does something, till he speaks or acts in
the legal drama. We zee no external symp-
tcdn scf overgrowing native character NO
synptom Of egythine Wish would make you
think that tiafn6n, by BIS grand movement,
BY ~ BE- kSe1A by his uplifted arm
night 1kedun kepcsition and palsy hate.
Al1 ~ Wave Sen him when in battle,
hi att1S ves tEa< Of thoughts and words,
stamoine kgk c9er legal adversary with
outstfetcAed arm, with eye Burning black
with smothered Ere, and face white with
death-like pallor, his form erect, his brow
more spaciousy and the dark curly locks on
his temples Entering about and waving and
uplifting, Ike battle flags to faunt defiance to
the foe; and then he looked the oratoric war
god. He can present his thoughts as bold
and bare as bleeding bones, but he prefers to
give it forth as it first comes to him, embodied
in beauty, and robed in splendor You can
never listen to him ten minutes without be-
ing walked up by some surprising imaginative
analogy or fancied illustration. In court or
with an audience, this warm imagery APP
pears, equally when In an insurance case he
apostrophizes 1.-THE spirit which leads the
philanthropy of two hemispheres to the icy
grave of Sir John Franklin" or when in
Feneuil Hall he conjures up before the eyes
Of wildly applauding political assembly a
vision: beauteous Of the sdark-eyed girls Of
Mexico wailing to the light guitar. All |!
woe isTme, Albania, for thousand years;
and by the viyidness of his conception and
the corresponding intensity of his delivery
i causing the people almost to hear with the
i tiers Of Judea over ruined land, sounds the
most melancholy of all the sorrow-stricken
fields Of the earth.
How often have we seen the opposite coun-
sci in case utterly puzzled and bafled by
the strange way in which Choate seemed to
be putting the facts to the Jury, and inter
foiled every time by the reply, "Do mis-
h. Go ts2 crlv, ,,yor,
land the. discomftted Interrupter would
tect precisely where was the err Or yet feeling
sure that he had heard no such evidence.-
The fact was, Ch0ate had the basis fact all
right: he was only painting and inaaming
it with his own colors but the paints on his
pallet were to his adversaries as the sky of
Italy to the sky of Sweden, and they were
brought on his canvas in even more perplex-
ing and bewildering hue by the impassioned
heat of his unbridled senslbility.
Brilliantly was this capacity exhibited in
United States District Court for casting away
his vessel off San Domino, with the intent
to procure the insurance. The Government
had been ut the cost of sending special
agent to Hayti for evidence, and he had bro't
Empire, called by the swelling appallation of
MANAGEABLE nle but vs. 1s9st selS s ess
He Sswole positiyDI 4 f6fo6i 81 IN IN iinterpslsr
that hedived dowh r lar Wnfernnd examined
the wood card ~ ~ ehip, and the star.
board bow, and in the hitter he found great
smooth hole, not rough enough for rock to
have made, end which evidently was the
death wound Of the ship, AL the other parts
Of the proof of the Government might be got
over; some of Them indeed, were favorable;
but that awful hole threatened to swallow up
the case, captain, advocate and all. All the
rest he managed adroitly and aptly; but
when ON the second day Of argument to the
Jury he came TO that part, he didn't blink at
all he rose right at the wall. He told the
| jury in set terms that they need not think he
was afraid Of that dark duke, butting his
head among the logwood, fathoms deep un-
der the water, and then all at once he opened
| his whole argument in such double broad.
| side of eloquence, and fiction and ridicule,
that he riddled poor Duke Pine himself into
honey comb. And then taking advantage
| Of felicitous circumstance in the captains
conduct, to wit, that he did not fly when ac>
cused, he concluded with singularly, noble,
simple and scriptural burst, which came in
like some COED trumpet choral to crown his
lyrical Grafton: Gentlemen ofthe jury the
accused man paused, he did not fly, for he
turned his eyes upward, and he was think
| ing Of the sublime promise. when thou
/ goest through the fire thou shalt not be burn
ed, and through the deep waters they shall
not overflow thee And saying these words
the great advocate sank into his scat The
Judge acquitted the Captain and the expen-
scs Of the expedition of the Baronct Pine to
America were charged by the Government,
We presume to profit and loss" as apleasure
excursion to Boston of the ducal diver.
The extraordinary aifluence of diction
which Mr.. Choate possesses, is drawn from
the recources Of literature and mems talk,
common and uncommon, from the Bible and
thesnewspapers from Homeric stanza, and
| from the chat of oar streets from books
the people love and books they never heard
Of, simple words long legged words, all
mixed up and stuck together like some BIZ
zarre mosasc, showing forth some splendid
| e.orv in n II its infinita variety nc huea