Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-08-10

the piaintn Ior her ragged attorney were for
gotten or spared.
The great Prentiss concluded for the defend
ant, with glow of gorgeous words, brilliant az
shower OF falling stars, and with bursts Of
oratory that brought the house down In cheers,
In which even the sworn jury themselves Joined,
notwithstanding the stern order OF the bench
Thus wonderfully susceptible are the Southern
people to the charms Of impaseionate elo-
quence.
IL was the strangers turn He had remain
cd apparently abstracted during all the previ-
ous speeches. Still and straight, and motion
less In his seat, his pale, smooth forehead
shooting like mountain cone Of snow, and but
for that continued toitch that cime aud went
continually in his face, you would have taken
nim Tor mere man OF marble, OF human
form carved Ia cs. Even his dim, dreary eyes
brows.
And now at last be rises-before the bar, not
behind it--and 30 near the wondering jury that
he might touch the foreman with his long, bOny
nogers With eyes half shut, and standing
rlgld as pillar OF iron, his lips thinly curled,
as II In measureless scorn, slightly spart, and
the sound came forth.
Al hfstit ls low and sweet insnuating itself
into the BRAIN aa an artless tune winding its
way through the deepest recesses Of the heart
like the melody of magic incanta,ion, while
the speaker proceeds, without gesture, to tear
to pieces the argument Of Ashley, which melts
away a! bis touch as the frost before the sun
beam. Every one was surprised His logic
was at once brief and so luminously clear that
sue rpdest peasant could understand IL without
aB effort
Anon he came TO the dazzling wit of the poet
lawyer, Pike. Then the curs of his lips grew
sharper, his smooth face began to kindle up,
and his eyes to open--dim and dreamy no long
er' but vivid as Lightning, red fre-globes, as
glallng as twin mete0Ts. The whole soul was
In HE eyes, the full heart streamed out of bis
face. In five minutes Pixies wit seemed like
foam OF folly, and his finest satire horrible pro-
family, when compared with the inimitable sal
lies and exterminating sarcasm of the stranger,
interspersed with jests and anecdotes that allied
} the forum with laughter.
Then Without so much as best0wing all allu-
slon upon ffentiss, he turned around short upon
the peTJured witnesses Of HopkiDe, tore tfeir
testimony into atoms, and hurled into their
faces such invec!iyes that all trembled az with
sgue, and two of them actually fed in dismay
from the Court House.
Inc excitement of the crowd was becoming
!, tremendous. Their united life and soul seemed
TO hang upon the burning tongue of the strang-
er. He inspired them with the power of his
own passions. He saturated them with the
poison OF his own malicious feelings. He seem
ed to have stolen natures long hidden secret OF
attraction. He was the sun to the sea Of all
thought and emotion, which rose and fell, and
toiied in the billows as he chose. But his great
8 est triumph was to come
His eyes began to glance turtively at the az
! sassin Hopkins, as his lean, taper fDgers assum
e ed the same direction. He hemmed the wretch
| wi n NIFOr naV Hat ri
escape.
t He piled up large bastions Of insurmountablt
e fac;s. lie dug beneath the murderer and Sian
: deFer's feet bitches Of dilemmas such az nc
sophistfy could oYereap, and no secrets of In
3 genuity eVade; and thus having, as one nigh
say, impounded his Victim, and girt him abou
o like scorpion in a circle of FIRE, he stripped
4 himself 10 ths work Of massacre.
o O1! then 1t was a vision both glorious anS
o dreadful 10 behold the orator. His actions, be
It lore graceful 40 the waves of the golden willow
!. in the breeze, grew impetuous as the motion @
z an oak In hurricane.
Il Ills voice became trumpet filed with will
Thirlpoois, deafeniDg the ear with the asbe
IA OF power, and yet inter min CLING all the whil
ID WIN sweet uudersong of the sof,est cadence
e HIS fsce was read as druDksrd's-hs torches
glcwei ike heated furnace, his oouutsnanc
y "ae hsgesrd Ike that of waniac, and ever az
Isl anon be huag MS long aud boDy arms on high
d q i le were grafplng after thunder. bolts.
!, de Ore" picture OF murder in such appsllir
" c'!ofs t9st 10 comparison even hell itself mig h
De considered beautiful. He pair ed the Sian
!. Oerer go bisCk shat the sur seemed dark &
y. pQotday, ~hon ahiGlng on such an accdrse
) mUAsser, 40 theO fxue boil por,ia.ts on d
- shFiDklns Hopkins, ne fastened hem there for
ever. lne agitation Ut the audience amounte
d. almost 10 10 adness
ir All u on q the apeaker dssceuded from h
J, perlious height HIS voice iiled out for III
murdered dead and living-.,he beautiful M.I,
10 more be- utiul every moment as her tears lwe
As fasIo ill all wept ard soboed like ohlldI en-
le He closed by u strange exnorsation TO II
,r jury, ana through them to The bystanders. H
es advised tho panel, after they should bring
30 verdict for the plaintiff, not 10 offer violence
Us the defendant, however richly he might dessrv
IL; 10 other words, not to lynch the villain, bI
= TO leave his punishment With God.
This was the most artful trick of all, and Il
,e beat calculated to insure vengeance.
Of The jury returned verdict of twenty thou
and dollars, and the night afterwArd HopkiI
., was taken out of bed By Iynchers, and beats
almost to death.
Il As the court adjourned the stranger mac
10 known his name, and called the attention
the public with the nnouncement--"J John Ta
Us loT will preach this evening al early cand
ne light!'
,-I The crowd all turned out, and Tsylors sc
mon equalled, if ii did not surpass the splend
,e of his forensic effort
,e This Is not exaggeration. l have listened
Clay, Webatsr and Calhoun--to Dewey, TyI
II and Bascom--but never heard anything in Il
A form Of sublime words even remotely approx
at mating to the eloquence Of John Tsylor--ma
ID sive as mountain, and wildly rushing es cs
arAct of fire. And that Il tha nnininn of I