Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-10-26

while the speaker proceeds without ges-
tnre, or the least sign of excitement, to
tear to pieces the argument of Ashley,
which melts away at his touch as the
frost before the subeam. Every one look
ed surprised His logic was at once SO
brief, and 80 luminously clear, that the
rudest peasant could comprehend it, with
out effort.
Anon he came to the dazzling wit Of
the poet=lawyer, Pike Then the curl of
his lip grew sharper his sallow face kind
led up, and his eyes began to open, dim
and dreamy no longer, but vivid as light
ening, red as fire globes, and glaring like
twin meteors. The whole soul was i'll
the eye-the full heart streamed out on
the face. In five minutes Pixies wit SEEM
ed the foam of folly, and his finest satire
horrid profanity, when contrasted with
the inimitable sallies, and exterminating
scarcasm, of the stranger, interspersed
with jest and anecdote that file | the TO-
rum with roars of laughter
Then without so much as bestowing an
allusion on Prentiss, he turned short on
the perjured witnesses of Hopkins tore
their testimony to atoms, and hurled in
to their faces such terrible invectives that
all tlembled as with an ague, and two of
then actually fed dismayed from the
Court House.
The excitement of the crowd was be-
coming tremendous. Their united life
aud soul appeared to hang on the burning
tongue of the stanger. He inspired them
with the powers of his own passion. He
saturated them with the poison of malic-
ious feelings. He seemed to have stolen
natures long hidden secret of attention.
He was the sun of the sea of all thought
aud emotion, which rose and fell, and
boiled in pillows, as he chose.
But his greatest triumph was yet tc
come.
His eye began to glare furtlvely at tht
assassin Hopkins, as his lean taper finger
SLOWLY assumed the same direction Ii,
hemmed the wretch around with a cir
cumvallation of strong evidence. and i'm
pregnable argument cutting of all hope
of escape. He dug beneath the murder
er's and slanderer's feet bitches of diem
mas such as no sophistry could overleap
and no stretch of ingenuity evade, ant
stripped himself to the work of massacre
Oh ! then it was vision both glorou
, and dreadful to behold the orator. Hi
, action, before as the wave of golde
willow in the breeze, grew as impetuou
t as the motion of an oak IN hurricane
, His voice became trumpet filled wit
) whirlwinds deafeniDg the ear witch crash
9 es of power, and yet interminged all tn
while with sweet under song of the sot
e est cadence. He drew picture of mul
!, der in such appalling colors, that, i
a comparison, hell itself might be consider
ed beautiful. He painted the slandere
a so black. that the sun seemed dark q
f noon day, when shining on such an az
e cursed monster and then fixing bot
on the burning brow Of Hopkins, an
t nailed them there forever.
All at once the speaker descended fro,
e his perilous height. His voice walled OF
8 for the murdered dead. and described Il
d sorrows of the widowed living, the bea,
t tifu Mary, more beautiful every momel
Q as her tears flowed faster--till men wep
J. and lovely women sobbed.
!. He closed by IA strange exhortation
h the jury, and through them to the b
l. ISLANDERS. He entreatcd the panel, aft
they should bring in their verdict for q
Ie plaintiff. not to offer violence to the d
r. fendant, however richly he might deser
d it; in other words. " not to lynch I
!, william, Hopkins, but to leave bis punis
ID ment to God" This was the most artf
re trick of all, and the best calculated to
n, sure vengeance.
Sc The jury returned verdict of fiji
thousand dollars; and the night aft
lr wards Hopkins was taken out of
to bed by lynchers, and beaten almost
ii death
n. As, the Court adjourned, the atranl
" made know his name and called the