The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-10-12


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The Volunteer Counsel.
John Taylor was licenced, when q youth
Of tweLt Y-one, to practice at the bar. Hs
was poor, bat well educated, and possessed
extraordinary genius- He married a beauty
who afterwards deserted him for another.
0n the 9th Of April, lS40, the court house
in ClarksvIlie, Texas, was crowded to over
flowing. An excitG1g ease was to be tried,
George Hopkins, a wealthy planter, had Of
fered gross insult 10 Mary Ellison, the
young and beautiful wife Of his oversecr.
The husband threatened to chastise him for
the outrage, when Hopkins went to EIlison's Q
house, and shot him in his door The muir
derer was arrested and bailed to answer The
charge. This occurrence produced grest
excitement, and Hopkins in order to turn
the tide Of Indignation had circulated reports
against her character, a1d she sued him for
SANDER. Both SUITS were pending-for Sian.
ier and murder.
The interest became deeper when il was
known that Ashley ana Pike of Arkansas,
I'D S. ). Prentiss Of New Orleans, by enor-
nous fees, had been retained to defend Hop
kins.
Hopkins was a. qaitted. The Texas law
yers were overwhelmed by their opponents.
Il was fight Of a dwarf against giants
The SANDER suit was ior the 9th, and the
Ihrong Of sper stors grew in numbers as IN
excitement. Pubic opinion was setting in
for Hopkins; his money had procured Wit
nesses who served hs powerful advocates.
WheR the SANDER case was called, Mary El-
Iison was left without an attorney-aif had
withdrawn. aa aioT
'Sfiave you no counsel - inquired Judge
Mil, looking kindly on the plaistiff. ~
mo, sir; thty have all deserted me, and
am too poor 10 employ any morc," replied
me beautiful Mary, bursting into tears. =
/" In such case, viii not some chivslrous
member Of the profession volunteer r. said
Ihe Judge, glancing round the bar.
The thirty lawyers were silent.
81 will, your honor" said voice from
he thickest part Of Che crowd, behind the
,ar. rY Wes tlj az .sa.rrz
At the sound OF that voice many started
1 was 10 earthly, sweet, and mournfei.
The frst sensation was changed into
aughter when a tall, gaunt, spectral figure
Allowed his way through the crowd, and
,laesd himself within the bar His clothes
90 ked so shabby that the court hesitated to
ct the case proceed under his management,
"EAs your name been entered on the
,olls of the Statei" demanded the Judge. ~
I" 1t is immaierial,' = answered ths stranger,
ne thin, bloodless lips curled up with sneer,
6 Here 10 my license from the highest tribu-
Ma ia Aissi1ca ana De handsd, llas .Ga.g .tG2age
broad statement
rSe trial weI.t on. s+o,,,
He suffered the witnesses to tell their own
tory, and allowed the defence to lead of.
Ashley spoke first, followed by Pike and
'rentiss. The lalLSr brought the house down
n cheers, in which the jury joined.
II was now the strangers tim. II a
before the bar, not behind it, and so near
be wondering the jury that he might touch
,s foreman with his long bony finger. He
proceeded to tear to pieces the argGmeats Of
Ashley, which melted away at his tonch like
rost before & sunbeam; every one looked
'urpTlsed. Anon be came to the dazzling
sit Of the poes lawyer Pike. Then the curl
If his lip grew sharper, his smooth face be-
,an to kLndle up, and his eyes to open, dim
and dreary no longer, lot sssiA sa lighsniag,
red NJ Gre globes, and glaring as twin me-
teors. The whole soul vas in. the eyes the
full heart stseamed out Of the. face. Then,
without bestowing an allusion to Preptiss,
be turned short round on the perjnred Wit
nesses Of Hopkins tore, their testimony
into thseads, and, hurled into their
faces such teIsible inrectiyes that all trem-
blsd like aspeas, and two Of them fed from
lhe court house. The excitement Of the
cr.xd vas becoming tremendous. Their
united his .nd soul seemed to hang upon
tie burning tongue u the stranger. and he
inspired them with the power OF his passions.
lie seemed to have stolen natures long hid
den secret Sf .s4igaction.A Bat his greatest
was 10 Come. - /" fs7TN5
His eyes began To glance at the assassin
as has lean taper finger assumed
Ihe same dirsction- He hemmed the wretch
With wall Of strong evidence and impreg-
nable argum ant, cutting off all hope OF es-
APE. He dug beneath the m1rderer's FEET
iltcnes Of dilemma, and held up the sIsndsFs
er 70 the 1scorn and contemp pt eof the popa-
aes. Having thus girt him about with .
circle Of fire, he stripped himself TO the work
,f massacre.
Oh / then il was a vision both glorious
md dreadful 10 behold the orator. Hal
ions became NJ impetaoHs - ths motion Of
NJ oak in . hurricane. His voice became D
trumpet flled with wide whiripools, deafen-
ng the ear with the crashes Of power, and
: ct iuterfningied all the swhiIs with sweet
lndsrsong of the softest tcadence. His fore
b cad glowed like . heated furnace, his .coun-
Ienance was haggard like that OF maniac.
md ever and anon he flung his long bony
lrms On high ~ IT. srsspisg after rsthanl1sS
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be drew picture Of murder in such ap-
pel'ing color: that ip Comparison, bell itself
might seem beautiful he painted the alan
ierer - black that the sdn ssssmsd dark 1t
n6onday, ,sssheu 3shining onst0oh1a moastsf.
And then. n.ixing both portraits a. the shrinlr
ng Hopkins, fastened them there forever.
rhe agitation OF the audience Amounted
Almost TO madness. 3is faa - fgdi NoaS
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he psrilous hight HE ypise walled out for
lhe murdered dead and Iiyng- the heauttGl
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