Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-12-26

eign may nv God forget mel As Thurlow
sat down the sensation amongst his brother
peers was profound but Liberty Wilkes, VINO
had been an auditor Of the speech, was less
deeply affected A vicious light burning
brightly in his squirting eyes, and as more
than usually diabolicai sneer played upon his |
hideous face, the peoples friend Kissed out =
e" God forget you He'll see you-frst.''
Among the gossip of the book are the fol- !
Lowing
ANECDOTES OF THURLOW.
A solicitor had made series of statements
in q vain endeavor to convince his lordship OF
a certain persons death. Really, my lord,
at last the solicitor exclaimed, goaded into a
fury by Thurlows repeated CALCULATIONS of
" That's proof of the mans death )"
" Really, my lord, it is very hard, and it is not
right that you won't bslieve me. l saw the
man dead in his coffin. My lord, tell you he
was my client, and he is dead" &" No won-
DER" retorted Thurow, with grunt and a
sneer, " since he was your client. Why did
you not tell me that sooner (? 1t would kill
me to have such fellow you are for an at
torney.' That this great lawyer could thus
address a respectable gentleman is less aston
ishing when it is remembered that he once hor-
rifed party of aristocratic visitors at a couu-
try house by replying to lady who pressed
| him to take some grapes, =" Grapes, madam.
| L
| had the gripes !" Once this unsentle lawyer
ives fairly worsted in a verbal conflict By an
| Irish pavlor. On crossing the threshold of MS
| Ormon0 street house one morning, the Chan
| ceilor was incensed at seeing u load of paving
stones placed before his door. Singing ont
to the tallest of a score of Irish workmen who
were repairing Inc thoroughfare, he poured
upon him one of those torrents Of curses with
| which his most insoent speeches were usually
preluded, and then told the man 10 move the
stones instantly - Where shall take them
to, your honor?" the pa.ior inquired. From
the Chancellor another volley OF blasphemons
abuse. ending with, " You lousy scouudrel
take them to hell do you hear me P""have
q care your iOpor,' answered the workman,
with quiet drollery, - don't you think now
that il | took 'em TO the other place your hon
or would be less likely to fall over them y
The famous Lord X enyon is pictured as an
; ign gnorant and an absurd person, and these an
eodotes are told
JUDICIAL BLUNDRRS.
One day he would silence an importunate
suiter CT loquacous barrister by exclaimiDg
8. Est modus rebus, or as the vernacuaI
ha.h il. there must be an end OF all things !
: on another day he would cothe his face with
the wisest of his Judicial aspects, and obser1e
u
am resolved stare supra ttquGs rids.
When a glaring case OF fraud was brought be
fore his observation, he exclaimed, - The dis
honesty i manifest in the words OF an OK
: LATIN sage, apparently Laiet asg,ns a.
herba :; to deeply edited grand jury ht
2 remarked 10 a tone OF solemn pathos, -" Hav
J. ng thus discharg ed your cOnsclences, gentle
men, YOU NAV retire to your homes II peace
(, with the delightful consciousness OF havint
u rf,,.fa oil and ,-OIl PO Oul
u pose yourselves for nocturnal slumber, Vol
u nav apply 70 yourselves the words Of n
n heather philosopher. Aut Cesar G1h rsul
= ius
= Without the assistance of Latin, some Of hi
r remarks uttered from the juugment-seat wer
q verv provocative of laughter. Tae alltgg
ton" ne exclaimed Indignantly during the ez
q animation nf unsatisfactory witness, d" Is d
o far from truth old Booterium from tn
< Northern Mama line / have heard or me-
q with God knows irheer.
* On an other occasion, when he reprimande
ID an attorney for causing needless and vexatiou
IS delay in q cause, ne observed in boldly meta
pnoiicAi l4u9dag :i.IS l. the las hair IN IN
C. tail OF procrast,uatioa, and II must oe p!ucks
N out :" and re Is reported 20 have lecture
10 twelve gentlemen II the box thus: =
81 ar individual can break down any OF tho>
lt safeguards which the Constitution has wise
= and cautiously erected, by poisoning the mine
y OF the jury at time when they are called ri
on TO decide, he viii stao The administration
lh Justice in its most vital parts"
!, But Kenyons grandes, oratiou was made
- ,te trial cf Williams f1r publ aIng Tor
6 Paine's Ase OF Reason when the learne
-. Judge in his summing up observed-' Chr
iiarIty. from its earliest institutions met Wit
-. it's opposers. The professors wee very So
called upon TO publish their Apologies f
l. In .
" manner they did that, and whether taey ha
m the advantage Of their adversaries, sur
~ under the superiority OF their argument, ma
kind for nearly two thousand wears have n
the opportunity Of judging. They have see
NJ what Julian, Justin Martyr, ana other apo!
yi>,s have written. and have been Ct 0piniC
10 that the argument was in t4vor OF those pub
's' cations" Telling this story in his own wa
-, and improving i.-as he was fully Jn'uned
49, doing-Coerdge in the " Table lax assur
;, his readers tnal Lord KENYON, in his address
-, the jury in trial for basphemy, said, "Abo
;I ;'h all, gentlemen, need l name to you the Emp
- ror Julian, who was so celebrated for the pFa
- tce of every Christian virtue, that he VI
~ called Julian the .4pOstie -
, To several lA;er judges, as well as to Ne
49, Won, has been attributed the memorable Jut
D~ cial address TO the dishonest butler who h
,~d been convicted for stealing large quantities
Al wine from MS master ceIdr IleOhei
W the bar" the Judge is reported to have sa
80 YOU stand convicted on the most conclus
n' evidence Of 4 crime of inexpressible atroc
4He "A crime that dehes the sacred springs
~ dom este confidence, and IS calculated TO str
~" alarm into the breast Of every Eagilshman "
invests largely n the choicer vlntages OF Sou
ern Europe. Like the serpent OF old You h'
stung the hand Of your protector. tortun
-, in having gorgeous employer, You mig
"G without dishonesty, have continued to sup
your wretched wife and children with the ca
80, forts of sufficient prosperity, and even W
\, some of the iuxnries oil affi renee out df
~, TO every calm OF natural affection, ana blind
a.! YOUR own interest, you burst through all
1sl, restraints of religion and morality, and b
49,, for many years been f5athering your nest
80 YOUR masters bottle.
A fair match for these is the story OF
-iP Irish priest who rebuked his parIshloner
.l .uN drunkenness, and told him that = whenever
shs' ., entered an aIehouse drink, his guardian
ie gel stood weeping at the door - And II
,,, mad sixpence he'd be in himself" was r
reply.
JEFFREYs AND THE FIDDLER.
Though Jeffreys deiightet IN music,
nd does not seem to have held its professors
high esteem In the time of Charles II.
four steal artis,s of the humber grades liked tc
mas STYLED musitioners; and on certain o'
alied sion. when he was sitting as Recorder for
an city of London, George Jefreys was gre:
y of ,ncensed hv a witness who in a pomu L
voice, called himself a Dus'tioner. Wit
sneer the Recorder interposed-'A musit