Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-11-13
An Arkansas Hero.

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He was then about three-and- d-twenty
years of age, small, slender, and effemi--
nate looking, with light hair, almost beard
less face, and dark blue eyes. His dress,
though not exactly fopish, was altogether
too fine, neat, and precise, to suit the
f taste of men who had always seemed
prepared for roughing it in the back
woods, as most of them had done at one
time and another and he was moreover
a stranger from the North who had, per-
haps, come to display his learning, and
pick up their money; SO that, from the
first, he was regarded with suspicion,
aversion, and contempt.
The first six or eight months he got no
practice whatever, Notwithstanding he
was regularly at bis office, or the court
room, watching, waiting, hoping; and he
was about to give up in despair, and be-
take himself 10 some other locality, when
/
one day tall, lank, dark individual came
shuflling into his apartment, and, after
surveying him keenly from head to foot,
said, as he helped himself to a seat:
See here, young hop-o my thumb, is
there anything in you?'
'Yes-my breakfast replied the young |
lawyer, with a quiet smile.
The latter stared at him a few mo-
ments, and seemed undetermined whether
to consider the reply joke or an insult.
He finally grinned at it, and proceeded:
4 mean, do you know anything?'
'Ob, yes, something answered the law
yer, pleasantly. L know the difference
between chalk and cheese--a horse and
a horse block
Can you write ?
Il have written my name before now.'
The stranger drew newspaper from
his pocket, opened it deliberately, point
ed out an article, handed it to the young
man, and said:
'Read thatp
'Aoud?'
Yes
The young lawyer complied, and read
a TRADE Of the most scandalous and scath-
ing nature, against one Miles Gregory,
the democratic candidate for the State
WELL demanded the stranger, when
he had finished the article, what do you 9
hink of that?'
1t is pretty severe
4 believe you. Do you 'spect thar's !,
another man in the State of Arkansas :
hat can write as scorcbing a thing agin !,
be Wing candidate?'
If there were facts to justify it, l =
loubt not such an article might be pro- :,
luced, replied the young lawyer. "
TO thunder with your facts = cried the
'ther, excitedly facts hant got nothing 3,
o do with politics; thar's no facts in that i;
IS all lies, from beginning to end I'm il
Miles Gregory, and l ought TO know u
I'll give fifty dollars to anybody that'll
write as savage a thing as that agin Joe
Perrin
when do you want it ?
'Now-to- day.
Without regard to facts Z?
They ha'nt got nothing to do with it,
tell you
Very well, if you can call in a couple q
# hours l will show you something to q,
match it,
If you'll do it, or one half ont said ar
lilies Gregory, rising to leave, I'll put yo
ou in a way to make fortune
He went out, and returned at the ap- hi
ointed time, and the youLg lawyer bad
le article ready. Without descending
5 low as the model in vulgar epithets, it sn
as even more terrible in its withering
lrcasm. Gregory could hardly contain ii,
imself while the young lawyer was read m,
e it, and as soon as he was done he
bundled from his seat with yell of tri- mr.
nph, and, seizing the delicate little hand th,
the writer, almost crushed it between my
$ great bony fingers. sec
You've done it. young man, he cried,
lib an oath, 'and you'll soon have some, or,
ing better to do than sit here staring at ere
ank walls. Here is your money-the 10
ly difference is, I've concluded to make ou,
a hundred instead of fifty-but that's ne,
y business, so none of your nonsense in
He rushed out with a triumphant laugh, a '
aving the young lawyer to ruminate oio
on bis first fee, and the possible conse- dis
ences of becoming a conspicuous indi- pe,
lual in that fighting region. cou
The next week the article appeared in the
democratic paper, and created quite wo
One political party was de- :
hted, and the other chapriued. Who wit