The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-05-03

CiOtnlDS was SO SnaDDy tnal tne court u
most hesitated to let the case procec
under his management.
Has your name been entered on tn
rolls of the State ~ demanded the Judge
suspiciously.
at is immatcrial about my name be
ing on your rolls,' answered the stran
ger, his thin lips curling up into ticnd
ish sneer. 81 may be allowed by tn,
courtesy Of the court and bar. Here il
my license from the highest tribunal u
America" and he handed Judge Mills :
broad Parchment
The trial immediatcly ly went on. IL
the examination of the witnesses tic
stranger evinccd very little ingenuity, a:
commonl Y thought lie suffered each
one to tell bis own story, without inter
ruption, though he managed to make
Zach one tell it over two or three times
He put il few cross questions, which,
with keen with sscS. OhI Y served to cor.
rect mistakes, and he made no notes,
which, in mi yhtj memories, onl y tend to
cmbarrass
The examination being ended, as coun-
sci for the plai' tiff he had the right to
the opening as well as the closing speech,
but to the establishment of every one, he
declined the former, and allowed the dc.
fence to lead utf
Then Il shadow mi sht have been seen
to Hit across the features Of Pike, and to
'larken the bright eyes of PrentisS. -
They saw they had "caught Il Tartar
bu: who it was, or how it happened, Was
impossible to guess.
Col. Ashley spoke first. lie dealt the
jury dish Of that coarse, dry, logic
which years afterward, rendered HIM
famous in the Senate of the Union.
The Poet, Albert Pike, followed with
a vein Of wit and half torrent of fridicu!e
in which neither the plaintiff or her rag
ged attorney were forgotten or spared.
The great Prentiss concluded for the
defendant, with glow of gorgeous words,
brilliant as shower Of falling stars, and
with bursts Of ora.ory tha, brought the
house down in cheers, in which even the
sworn Jury themselves joined, notwi,h-
standing the stern order of the bench -
Thus wonderfully susceptible arc the
Southern people to the charms Of impas.
stoned cloquencc.
1t Was the strangers turn. He had
remained apparently abstrac'ed during
all the previous speeches. Still, and
strai yht, and motionlcss in his seat, his
pale, smooth forehead shooting high like
"A mountain cone Of snow, and. but for
that continued twitch that came and
went perpe'uaily in his face, yen would
have taken him for Il mere man of mar
ble,or a human form carved in ice Even
his dim, dreary eyes were invisible be-
But now at last he riscs-but before
tie bar-not behind it-and so near the
jury that he might touch the
foreman with his long bony fingers
With his eyes half shut, and standing
rigid as pillar Of iron, his thin lips cur
led as if in measurclcss scorn, slightly
apart, and the sound came forth.
At first it was low and sweet, insinua-
ting itself into the brain. as an artl's'
tune winding its way into the deepest re-
cesses of the heart like the melody of
magic incantation, while the speaker pro-
ceeds, without gesture or the least sig
nal OF excitement, to tear to pieces the
argument of Ashley, which mclts away at
his touch as frosts before the sunbeam
Every one looked surprised. His logic
was at once brief, and SO luminously
clear, that the ruiest peasant could con-
prehcnd it without an effort
Anon he came to the dazzling wit of
the poet lawyer Pike. Then the curl Of
his lip grew sharper, his smooth face be-
gan to kindlc up and his eyes to open-
dim and dreary no longer, but vivid as
red AS fire globes. as glarins
as twin metcors The whole soul was IN
his eye, the full heart strcamcd out of his
face. In five minutes Pixies wit seemed
like foam Of folly, aud Lis finest satire
horrible profanity, when compared with
the inimitable saIlcs and ext.rninating
sarcasms Of the stranger intrr>perscd
with jrsts and anecdotes that filled the
forum with laughter
AuS"s ~ IIIuCu DIS UeSNOWIuN
an allu.ion on PrcntiSs he turned round
short at the perjurcd witnesses Of Hop.
kins, tore their testimony into atoms. aud
hurled into their faces such invectivrs
that all trembl,d rs with a.ue, aud two
Of them actually fed in di>may from the
court house
The excitement Of the crowd was be-
coming tremendous Their united life
and soul seemed to hang upon the burn
ing tongue of the stranger. lie inspired
them with the power Of lris own passions
He saturated them with the poison of his
own malicious feelings H. seemed TO
have stolen natures long hidden secret
OF attraction. lie was the sun to the sea
Of all thor ght> and emotions which rose
and fell, and toil.d in the billows as he
chose. But his greatest triumph was to
come.
His eyes began to glance furtively a,
the assassin Hopkins, as his lean tape,
fingers assumed the same direction. II,
hcnmed the wretch with u circumvalla
tion of strong evidence and imprrgnabl,
argument. cutting off all hope Of escape
He piled up large bastions of insur
mountable fact. He du. beneath the
murderer and slandrrers feet bitches o
dilemmas, such as no sophistry coulc
overIeap, and no secrets Of ingenuit,
evade, and thus having,as one might say
'mp"unded his victim, and girt hin
ABOUT IKE scorpion in a circle Of fire
ne stripped himself for the work of mas