The New York herald., 1863-12-19
our eoan.ry savea from this eternal ssgr.eo and this

country sayed from this eternal disgrace and this
impending irretreyablc loes and ruin.
When reached here and entered hs court room fer
that you all carried away: for this human intellect
Of ours hrows out ts eeiors IN the atmosphere surround
the testimony or sherwood and appreciated ito elect and
when entered This room there stood upon the stacd one
OF the cubs Of This lopan engine driver from the Navy
Yardsent nere 20 dev0ur whatovor fragments had teen
left from the destructive neal Of tho day before. lie was
gorgeous creature as he stood before me- retpendent
with cold lace his delicate he hands unsuled vile
grease. and rnhardened by vulgar toll his magnificent
apparel shedding an eiugence Of glory around him. m
which me rnss OF saurn enerelng ~ arms we'd WIN
sho spendprs of Nars all ever LIS body for supremacy
There he stood az
The Assyran came down Ike the woh on the fold,
And his cohorts were cleaning n purple and gold;
And the sheen OF their like stars on tho sea
When the blue waves rolls nightly On deep SalIee
never behold one of these magn 1csnt vsone without
thinking how striking is the resemblance between an en-
lilies OF tho valley. Not, perhaps, from any peculiar
modesty which they have "a common bot because
say unto you that solomon in oil his glory was
not arrayed like Of these" Just then eherwcod
OF these wrongs and you know tho result Many days
have been occupied IN the cation, but not wasted
aDd when my learned adversary, Mr. Brent, complained
before you that we had taken 30 much time, and said
that but for the would have ended two weeks
ago he reminded Of tho complaint OF tho rebels after
they mad stolen Fort S1mter-that would insist
trying 10 recover 1t, and would occupy ne 10 their
great Inconvenience, which they had hoped 20 spend IN
enjoying The prize 'hey bad thus seized No doubt II
had not come this would have ended long ago and
my learned friend hayng pocketod his fec would have
retired TO his olce again. and hNo any well behaved
SPIDER Deem occupied m again spreading his mel for some
other fly.
OF the amusing coasequeoces OF the struggle how
ever. exh b.ied this morning when my learned op
ponent, sir. pavidge, withdrew Sherwood from yonr
notee as man OF science. sad he, gentlemen, Mr.
sherwood is not man OF science, but only practical
man and we rely upon hs facts and not upon his
theories Tor verdc,.p Whpt ail thore, my
trymen What this lion that roarec go Justify when
came here no lion 40 all Dot only auch an one az
Shnkeereres hon who. he alarm his audience
100 much. lifted up his lion skin mask and exclaimed
You ladies-yoo, whose gentle hearts DO fear
When ION rough in widest rage doth roar.
Then know that |, one Snug, the joiner, am
So seems after all we have so: one but Isherwood
the engine driver. and o: science at al-Only
''Snug, the Joinerp
Now, gentlemen much for the incidents Of
ths controversy. SO much for those nsdous attacks
OF my learned friend who opened this couse yester
day, and attempted 10 dsparage me and the interest
represent by nspuaons unjust in themselves unit 10
be made in court of iustce, aud unexpected by me.
But have no unkind thought unkint word for my
learned friend can imagine how disappointed he must
have felt at bs sudden destruction Of his well Laid plans
aud am always willing To be called hard names by a
man who has no other consolation at nand.
Now as TO this case. This contract which this suit
IL brought, Is Just such an as James watt used to
make which led TO the famous tgations OF Bolton and
Watt 10 the Court OF Common Pleas 10 England James
Watt bad made that great Improvement the steam
gne which rendered his name Immortal. be was not the
inventor OF steam engine for steam engine was used
before Watt saw one and will tell you how
u IL had ltnder and piston, Just u now
has but the cylinder wns no, covered overhead az
The steam was let into the cylinder IT s lower end and
under the piston, which by It's pressure was forced up
against the pressure OF tho atmosphere and thus
stroke WAS made But ~ order to make second stroke,
the steam now confined the cylinder had TO be
densed, or turned into water, and that done by
throwing cold water iufo tina cylinder itself aud thus
cooling IL and the steam II contained This very
tedious and costly process for a. each stroke the
cylinder, thus cooled had 70 be reheated q tempera-
ture Mt which IL would permit steam 20 remain In u
before another sroke could be made and all this heat
could be thus made At this point OF time James Watt
the Shakespeare ot mechanics appeared man whose
do see any prospect that another will come; q
whose intellect the Almighty had impressed that ntui
tive knowledge o HIS great physical truths. a. He had
impressed upon the intellect Of Shakespeare intutve
knowledge Of His great moral truths. He humble
man in station but, iumined BY the light Of genius, he
rose into grandeur which wild fsde lie looked
upon engine, glance faults ss,d he,
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ss & IL the boz pss 5SSG @
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,ssf m nio be there eooaeneG ''
There was the hrst great Improvement ON a steam
engine, and II was the intellect OF James Watt which
It. II James Watt who Tough, the battles Of
civil liberty in the early part OF this century II was
James Watt-not Lord Wellingtonthst conquered Napo
leon. He was who, by creating that physical power.
enabled England TO produce out Of ts internal
those means by which she sustained herself against
the gigantic strength OF the great Emperor and
carried war that resulted in his overthrow. Had
James Watt never lived the French Emperor would have
wiped out from Us place the history Of the world and
out OF the catalogue o nations that and people who
now domneer over land and over James Watt was
the great pillar On which ihey stood and be was who
fought tho battle that maintained them in their
present position. and he did II chiefly by that simple idea
lie used 10 make contracts. lie would 10 10 man VINO
had steam engine running on the old Plan and say,
81 VIII put an engine here which will run az well nod
largely in fuel AL the com pensaiion ask will be
what one hall OF the saving IN fuel viii amount TO,
there shall any saving II not got nothing Those
the IFS upon which the great suits Of Bolton aud
Watt were founded. These suits became famous in the
history OF the world, and they form the dividing line
between the past judicial determinations of England and
the present
The records Of a court OF Justice are the evidences Of
the civzlio on Of ibe times IN which they made-a
dn upon whose face the index hand uy points whether
that sun shines the zenith lnge the horizon
back 10 tho early records Of the English cour and what
d. you ndf Controversies about the boundaries Of Land
but then the owner Of the Land the owner OF the eo
pie who lived upon the land. and their rights had
place court of astice. little later and commerce
uuolded her wings and then the courts, under the In
spring genius ~ - Astied and Edon expanded those
principles Of the comm law, whose ooagt s that while
nothing too Muu'e Tor It's nothing is beyond its
powerand the Of England began 70 be seen In
every still later when the genius Of invention had
Inspired creative the laws OF patents appeared and
portion 10 the protection they gave marched on the
progress OF tho arts of ife until % Day the whole world
Is bound by electric chaHa family, and the
cad ct the valley IL instinct with life, ~ with the
nerves OF the created human body.
But Watt made those contracts have mentioned and
when the doendints a. IN this case found that his share
of profit was greatthough theirs great slsoke dis
tf, driven into the courts Tor reircss Thus you
see this 10 bat old story told again.
II has been said that IN the Affairs Of the world history
but itself; and II certainly in regard 20
this matter The moral character Of the human species
never changes. since the first dawn Of the historic
epoCh--irom the Time when that great man solomon
wrote his Proverbs until powths human heart of ours
has never changed, What In that distant past
h 10 day, and viii be true until the elements shall
melt with fervcnt heat" We may change our customs
and laws, erect monuments of civil progress IN
every department of the human arts but the hu
heart remains constant to Its original psi,orn
aud the fall 81 hdaAs leaves is impress iudebiy
xod upon all bis descendants through all time. And ell
these Ia tnaand who turned against James Watt,
the great beneacor of hts day aud generation and
fused 10 pay him what they had solcmny contracted
nav Just such 20 day turn against the bene
factors Of tber time, aud refuse 10 ray what they
iracied 10 pay when they 1Dd that they might have
bought their advantages much cheaper they had
been ignorant OF all things earth, gentlemen which
hate ard refuse IN pay tor, intellect most exctes
thoir animosty 1hey will raise objection 10 paying
for coal, winch they aud shovel In and burn the
cost 81 which they ind out but Ia pay for intellect
Tor that which apparently costs fs bothing-tbey
won't submit to that. 1bey would have all I've iect
ten inches nigh, and whsn rses above the
age all the rest cluster around 20 pull IN down II "a
The old savage ins,inot al more or less gwen