The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-04-28
CHAPTER XXII-Continued.

Excessively; but his situation might have
ACQUITTED for that
Military air? Noble bearing?"
~Very likely; I'm no Judge" said Edward,
--rlyl But he wore blue coat, with large
rii ilttons."
All I'm fearful that was Draycoe Very
;rarfdl. would be very sorry to think so, very
s.rrry Draycoes man of his word-fne, gen.
er,us, noble-hearted fellow, as ever lived but
arieA and patriotic, almost to a fault. l ex-
yect be had just quilted Captain Lynch's table.
Lynch gave an early banquet to his friends,
10 preclude them from desiring to attend yours.
This very morning, on receiving intelligence
that such was his design, | observed to him,
lynch spoke to him very plainly Lynch,
said L now, if you can restrain the public,
and refrain from so doing, your conduct is
cupabe. You are all of you inclined to pro-
coed too much upon the hypothesis that the
criminal ask pardon, your brother will
fall ID be convicted in the regular course of
unpetyerted justice. Why viii you not be
calm and neutral, and see what measures
Judge Sharper* and the jury will adopt? Now,
the best and safest course, and most satisfac-
tory, eventually, TO all parties, in my candid
Judgment, would be to let brother be sent to
the penitentiary for a few years, and quietly
parl5ncd out by the Governor, so soon as the
public mind is soothed."
Edward was not struck so agreeably as his
friend had hoped by this proposal. The next
morning, at the suggestion of Herman, who
longed to have him out of harms way, if only
for few hours, he went down to Capet, and
applied for aid in finding and engaging an ad-
yocate, to a clergyman whom they both knew
indirectly through some common friends of his
and theirs.
The little, neat, tasteful, quiet study, into
which Edward was shown, looked like trans
planted bit of New England and as Mr.. Hall
lax raised his head, and came forward from his
writing Die TO receive him, he felt instructive
ly that he had come to the right place.
Mr.. Halifax was a reDldrkabielooking man,
and was the man he looked. He was apparent
IL about forty years old. His frame was fine,
little above the middle height, and full, but
muscular rather than corpulent, and with
slight monastic stoop in the shoulders. He
had glorious prophetic eyes, but somewhat
feeble mouth, and whole countenance in keep
ing with these two hints, as if Nature had
gwen him the power to see more than she had
gwen him the strength to utter. His forehead,
grand in height and amplitude, was wrinkled,
as / with endless anxiety and perplexity. His
face was somewhat pale and weary, and his
look and smile bright with that sort of wistful,
innocent, and haltmourniul sweetness, which
one might expect to see in some marvellous
enid, marked for an early death by its own I'M
timely brilliancy and unearthly loneliness.
His voice was the perfect melody of melan-
choiy; further, there was that about him alto
geiher III the midst of so much that was fine
and interesting, which might give to physi-
ognonist the idea that he had fallen short by
just hairs breadth of the stature of the per.
iect man in Christ He was the image of a
rare hero, marred by the absence of some small
but essential hardening ingredient in the mate
rais of which ne was cast. The outlines-I
speak now of him as a spirit, he is a spirit now
were symmetrical suggestive, almost faultless,
bur little wavering and uncertain; want of
decision and irmness spoiled half the effect.
sufficiently abhor that which was evil. Thus,
while he saved himself, others he could not
save His enemies called him cowardly. He
was not, not physically so, at least He would
have marched to the stake, if he had seen that
his duty led him there; but the mischief was,
that though he was rarely clear-sighted, when
he dared TO trust his own remarkably fine eyes,
when they showed him things, as they often
'ld, which his neighbors could not see. he sus.
i'riec that they cheated him, shut them ap,
Aeii them shut as well as he could, and let
his neighbors lead him. His cowardice, if he
had any, was an almost purely intellectual, de-
iect-an error Of the Judgment rather than of
,le viii. For fear of selfconceit, he put from
Inn selfknowledge. Selfconceit is a bad
hing; let every man think of himself soberly
out let him also think of himself as he ought
70 think And woe to that nation whose spirit
lAl leaders turn followers, throw down, their
oatons, and fall from the van into the rear of
t4Nhc opinion, for want of right selfconfi-
dence; or, to speak more trnly,- for want of
confidence in their in-dwelling Cod Peace
70 ms pure memory! May he be as peaceful
IN the world TO which he has gone, as he was
peaceable III this If he was not, in the man
ner and more heroic attributes of holiness, the
hohest man our hesrs can imagine and pray
'OT' IN TIE present exigeneies of our church
ana state, be was, at least, in tender gratitude
io 10. all that was tender and reverent and beau
ului IN him, let US say it, one of the hottest
men llat our eyes have ever seen
% DuI We are putting on our mourning fos him
niue TOO soon. He was alive at the time of
SHiG q, We were speaking; and it was fortunate
~ Lu~ard that he was. His smile grew dim I;
@'-u IL MS lace shade more pale and care-worn,
Nu~arq told his story but he took up his
1s' ana gloves at once, and said, 81 have a
faI1Shioner, a good man and lawyer, who would
1NGertaAe The case, unless am much mistaken
4Hu' as YOU are in haste, we had better go at
IN'e 10 his house and see. | ought to let you
AUow beforehand, however, that he is humor-
'noogh the very soul of honor, and that he
as: particular aversion in general to aboli-
L-o1'S'S' some OF whom he thinks, and l think,
az USED him III but | am sure that you will
n nOs loFce your principles upon his notice un'
NY principles? >" thought Edward, "What
aIeuI ney Depend upon it. sir,' continued he,
l brought no abolition principles with
- "hen LETT Massachusetts. If | take any
ber .A WIN me when go, they must have grown
so- ue clergyman made no reply. As he pre-
s.uled Edward to Mr.. Broadstone," the former
I Tine should have told you before, Mr..
- r-ailiax' said he, I" If had heard the name of
our lriend, that Mr.. Broadstone has already
'een applied to, 10 defend my brother"
slightly. '0'0f'ns
T. Never! exclaimed Mr.. Broadstone abrupt.
l. 70 MN. What do you mean, sir 2" cried
, turning on Edward, with choleric Jerk.
POe MS oihcestool, as if upon pivot, lifting
;,s iee' from the floor in order to do so, and set
s mem down again, at the distance from their
-. point of an arc of the circle of which
Las long legs were the radii.
OFF, put letter directed to you into the post
o--ce' myself, six days ago."
Ei.,sk e osslnnng of this chapter, This name was by
spelled SAarksy.