The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-05-22


faculty which we call reason" The
supreme Court has no more power in the
premises he said Of another matter, ethan
the Court of st. Petersburgh" Again
" The mau who does not understand that
proposition is not iii to stand for a moment
in the presence Of this tribunal and argue
any issue involved in this controversy
Aud sgain, There never was a bolder
piece of effrontery practiced since man
was upon the face Of the earth. care not
il he be President of the United States, il is
simply an insult to human understanding
to press any such deteuse in the presence
OF his triers.' Again tho Presidents de-
Tense was said TO be like tale told by an
IDIOT full of sound and fury, signifyiug
nothing and ngair, the counsel were told
that 1t they meant seriously to press such
an Argument they were Fl; candidates for
the adjacent Lunatio Asylum across the
East Branch All this may be conclusive
Argument IN the eyes of the enthusiastic
ladies' in the galleries; but MIR. Bingham's
best friends are apt to think il too much
after the style of that gorgeous orator
whose answer to the tyrant'and the despot
is that his proud home is in the settn' sun.
Yet tlese are ouly spots that dim but lo
not obscure u handsome performance. OF
the argument itself readers have already
had their own opportunity OF Judging. II
uuly remains to say here that, in some pas
sages tho delivery was impressive. and
that throughout the galleries considered it
attractive that the audiences were larger
than at any previous period in the trial, aud
that they exhibited unusual attention that
several times the interest was painful aud
emotional, and that now the enthusiasm, in
the common current of Congressional so.
cicty about MIR. Binghan's speech, is very
general aud genuine.
There is a curious, sympathetic tenCe ICY
in Nj. Biugham's voice that sonetimes has
an elf 'cl over an audience which one, look.
ing alterwarl at the printed report alone,
is at loss to understand. Such an effect
was very marked, during the first days
speech, when the speaker came TO mention
the Margaret Garner case and dwell upon
it and other Illustrations Of the barbari,y
of the Fugitive Slave Law 1t was yet
more noticeable when, little later, he re.
peled the iutimatIou that Mr. Lincoln had
done some things similar to those now
charged uron MIR. Johnson, and so dverged
into AN eLlogy of Lincoln. Tears occur
much oltener in highly wrought desclip.
tons of uraturical effects than III the eyes
of audiences but it is true that III this and
other passages, Mr.. Bingham more than
once moved many in his audience to tears.
His eroratiou was briefcr aud less rhe-
torical than had been expected; and the
applause with which it was greeted began
not with those familiar with MIR. Bingham's
oratOry, but with strangers. Then the
effort to suppress it only made it spread
aud so, when the galleries were finally
cleared ont, everybody emerged IN state
OF injured but cXuberaut enthusiasm
Mr.. Bingham, amid SO much that was
fortunate for him, was fortunate in two sad
! lp5es. He so far forgot himself as TO taunt
the Presidents counsel with being hired
advocates" as if they could be anything
else. or ms if he had not himself been a
hired advocate when he prosecuted Mrs
Surratt. | AIN glad TO observe that he has
had the good sense Is strike out this
phrase IN the official report o: his remarks,
and to substitute for it the words are.
tanned counsel" His other lapse was
equally bad, and unluckily does not admit
| of any such ready correction at his hands
lie has been stung by Mr.. Evarts' reference
TO the passage between Butler and himself,
| in the House, and it was a matter of com.
! mon report that he was going to attack
Evarts severely. His attack proved 70 be
sneer at the length of Evarts speech,
which he said the author had striven to
make Immortality making it eternal. Now
this, in itself, was an excellent thrust and
one that Mr.. Evarts deserved; but it did
not come with a good grace from man
launching out ON a three days speech him.
self Now that it is all over, we can calcu-
late and compare the superficial extent of
each producton-as to their breadth and
thickness, that must be left to later judg.
ments. Mr.. Evarts spoke only an hour or
two longer than Mr.. Bingham, but not so
rapidly There is actually less than two
columns difference in the length of their re-
spective addresses. Mr.. Evarts' speech
makes thirty-niue columns in the Daily
GloJe Mr. Bingham's runs little over
thirty seven columns. Our Ohio friend
must be more careful in future. Eternal
but not immortal would be an unlucky
phrase to have fastened upon one; yet, he
can hardly deny that he has given some
provocation for it, AGATE.