Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-07-18
MORNING LEADER.


18th. He was born at Essex, Mass, on the Isl
Of October, 1900, and entered Dartmouth Col
lege in 1915. His thirbt for Knowledge was in
s,dable and every thing was sacrificed to study
His progress was extraordinary, and secured AZ
the expense Of health and constitution Young
Choate, the orator Of the college, studied law
with William Writ, then Attorney General, at
Washington; and then at the Law School at
Cambridge In 1925 he opened an Office in
Dsnvers, and married daughter Of the late
Miles olcot,, Of Hanover, N H., who survives
him He soon became famous at the Massa-
chusetis bar, and when quite a young man wac
twice elected to the United States House Of
Representatives; and in lS4l he succeeded Mr..
Webster as ole Of the United States Senators
Of Massachusetts. Political life was not 70 his
taste, and he left tho Senate at the end of four
years, and after that time would never accent
political office, AS a lawyer Mr.. Choate was
among the most distinguished Of his time, and
as an advocate he had no superior in the coun
try. The Post says cat home, within the
walls Of his own library he was the supreme
delight Of all who found access there. Ambi.
tious as he was he revelled in the sacred lows
of home far more than in his most signal pub.
lie triumphs. And it was indeed beautiful
tribute of praise from one who had right 10
give il, who is now chiei among his mourners.
when she said in answer to some common mace
congratulations about his fame that he was so
true and perfect husband and father that no
thought Of his being great man ever entered
the household"
Mr.. Choate was in some respects meteoric
man, and from portrait of Mr.. G, in the Ex-
press, we clipas follows
The style Of oratory Of which Mr.. Choate
was ever guilty, was one of the very worst spe
eimens of a very bad school Sparkling, crea-
tive, brilliant, dazzling, itneeded often The es-
sential element OF sense, aud hence had very
little weight in public life Affected, unnat1-
rail- strained, it could not be compIehended
without study and every body would not take
the trouble to study il. Webster could and
would say more in five minutes than Choate
would say in five hours. Nevertheless, il was
a style Of oratory that charmed, and especially
charmed the young mind
q One Of the most ludicrous spectacles we
ever beheld IN life was Mr. Choate at the Ealti-
more Convention, which nominated Gen. Scott.
Mr. Chcate was there as the great Webster
champion, aud Massachusetts was sure, if
ChUate coulu only get a hearing, Webster would
certainly receive the nomination. Choate
therefore, was shut up in room to prepare his
Webster batteries for attack and defence. and
Massachusetts sentinel was put over his door.
circumstances made IT necessary that lac should
have s,me talk with US, aud we with him, and
heLce we were sent for. We found Mr.. Choate
in all the agones and contortions of Pyihian
deity. Hu was corruscating and vibrating, his
eye IN hne frenzy rolling, every muscle and
feature III his passion swollen One coull not
help roaring with laughter TO SEQ the orator
thus, when only an anthmeticinn was wanting
TO ward oil the forthcoming nomination of Gen.
| Scott. Words then were worth no more than
winds. The figures We're then indispensable,
not lhe fanccs. lie made the speech--a bright,
brilliant one, very II but the nomination was
making while he was word spinning.
We had this brilliant genus once in our
printing office, the occasion being a lecture he
had to deliver before the New England Society
here. His penmanship was accursod, and his
hierpglyphics, to the uninitiated, worse than
those OF the Pyramius or the Thehan ruins. -
70 print from his manuscript was impossible,
and To copy from 1T equally impossible The
great orator, then, whose lecture was to be
nprenedltated, eXtempoTe, was compelled to
come to the office and speak it all over to re-
porter. To the whole scene he gave a thrilling
interest by the emphasis, his intonation and
his gesture, and the way he worked up a very
common lecture into an oXtempore oration, that
astonished the Iurtans here, was one of the
best lessons we ever saw or heard of in oratory.
But in all this sketch, we mean to say
nothing disparaging of a truly remarkable aud
wonderfully brilliant man, His industry is a
model for ambitious young men-his success an
illustration OF what industry can accomplish
with mind very little above mediocrity His
power at tho lar must have been great in
Alassachusetts-if not with the court, certainly
with the jury Not Webster himself could lead
a multitude captive as ChOate could, for the
first time. Such a power this over man a
iellow-man is well worth having and it is 10
the high credit Of Mr. Ohoate, we believe, thai
he always used it for exalted purposes. Noble
! sentiments, If not new ones, always spTang
from his lips, There was elevation in his pa.
lrlotlsm, and his career was one any American
may envy"