New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-08

speciality of jury hwja in the c0untrJ-'ut We
,brud not Judge from the goN things ,nA' nsS' 'e'o
....,.a NJ him since his desti tnss nc was MAN

speciality Of q jury hwJn' in the coun'r! We
.t,uld not Judge from the go things that have been
.a...,.,d Of him since bis dessx that he was man
of wit. His Jaeetie, as reported p! us sunni. >
are not supe flstiyely f.cetious. The' aie NM
bv weight rather than siriness, BY speSi"' s'.'"'
rather than scientific leyity. The best is 'na' On
Chief Justice Shaw, who, though grea! lawyer
probably the acknowledged head OF American LAW
at thi. tiue-is not distinguished for PERSONA
beauty. ~ regard the Chief Justice sad 'i'
Cbo.te. Gas the Africsn regards bis fetish: 500
9. that he is ugly, but feel that be Is great
That was q good thing too, though nov I'VE
~ which We have seen reported OF hun IN
contemporary 10 this city, aud which
be said on visiting Faneul Hall, where
John Quincy Adams was lying IN s's.e, aou
assisting at the funeral services there. ms IL
Every fine, 10 doubt; but were it my ease, mad
rather it were heard at eham'srs.' But when ais
case did come on there was no hearing az cnam-
bers. The fullest Court was not full enough Tor
the long array of counsel who volunteered to set
forth the eoquence of their client, and their own,
in the ears of the people. But the mot, though
savorng of the shop and not particularly brilhant,
was sensible, if no. witty, and told what he would
have said himself touching the hummeries aud
mummeries in which Boston folks, as their newest
notion, INDUCED themselves over his body, could ne
have broken the silence of death.
However. it is not material whether Mr.. Choate
were witty man or not. He was a human being,
and az such should be spared the ridicue which the
adulaton of his posthumous toad
eaters cannot fail to ax to his memory, as far as
il has any weight at all. A man is not freed by
death from any just judgment on bis deeds done IN
the body. Be is not dismissed from the bar OF
Man. because be has been summoned to appear
before that of God. But he should have at
least the same exemption from the publication OF
his weaknesses and HARNESSES which he would have
enjoyed if he still lived. Fortunately we are meme
of us obliged to be wise and witty at all times, and
the Wisest and wittest of men must sometimes
utter feeblenesses almost as void of sspdity as
this Boston bon mot of Mr.. Choate. But this Is no
reason why they should be treasured up against
them, and paraded as specimens of their powers,
after they have gore where they can neither con-
tradct nor deny the imputation. There is too much
of this Little Peddlingtonism in our American way
of treating our popular idols. The idolaters
are not content with the actual quality OF the
metal of which their clay divinties are made. They
persist in arguing that plaster is marble, and bronze
fine gold. And the consequence is, that they are
very apt to make the people in the outer courts
doubt whether the images, which they see are not
what it is pretended that they are have indeed any
very solid value at all. Mr.. Webster was greater
Jury lawyer than Mr.. Choate, but his admirers,
not content with this unquestiOnable superiority,
insist upon it that he was great statesman, diplO-
matist and even Latin and Greek scholar Mr.,
Choate was a good classical scholar, as well as
a clever advocate, and be must be set up for wit
If our Athenian friends cannot sustain their claims
in bis behalf with better vouchers than they have
vet shown, We should advise them to set him down
q cain