The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-19

VI MS quickness in the law of a case an in
stance Is given where recent decision adverse |
to his position was introduced Taking the book \
in bis hand, he said IL does not appear whether |
this case has been heard in the Court of Appeals |
but when 1t is 1t will be reversed for such and |
such reasons; which eventually proved to be the |
exact reasons given by the court reversing the |
decision Conceding all his wonderful briiancy |
and originality, Judge DAILY states, however, |
that his greatness as a lawyer Law in his sound |
judgment in the general management of case. |
IL is stated that in no case involving constitu-
tional questions haze his arguments been re- |
yersed in the highest appellate court.
OF his manner, Mr.. Porter says, ''Who can
ever forget the peculiar manner of his we
have all felt and none can describe? ? 1t was
evanescent as the fragrance of the rose" From
the time he entered the courtroom his by-play
with the Jury commenced. He made himself
thoroughly at home with them. 1t is said that
he never lost case in which he was before a
jury for more than week. by that time they
saw everything with his eyes. He was counsel
in fifty-tWO capital cases, in not one of which
he was ever unsuccessful except that of
Beall who was tried by a court-martial at
Fort Lafayette, on the charge of being spy
and guerilla" ..
1t il related that once having successfully de-
Tended man charged with murder, as he was
leaving the court the judge said 'Mr Brady,
the next case is that of a man charged with
murder; he has no counsel, can you defend
him ?" Certainly" said Brady, and instantly
went on with the trial. The Judge assigned him
in the same way to two others charged with
similar crime; so that in succession, he de-
Tended and cleared four capital cases. giving
weeks unrequted time to these four criminals.
He was obliged to decline to follow this up i'll
the case of the next man, charged with burglary,
who, having no counsel, desired him to be as
signed to him.
The case of young man who was charged
with murder, in what claimed an accidental
fracas, attracted good deal of interest. He was
a Mason, and that society applied to Mr.. Brady
to defend him, rendering twenty-five hundred
dollars as fee; but for some cause, he declined
the case. Not long after, one afternoon, neatly
dressed, modest young girl came to the
Office and asked for Mr.. Brady. Told to walk
into his private Office she timidly approached
his desk and saying:-"Mr. Brady. they are going
to hang my brother, and you can save him! I've
brought you this money, please don't let my
brother die !" she burst into tears II was roll
of $3.50, which the poor girl had begged in sums
of five and ten dollars. The kind-hearted man
heard her story. ''They shant hang your brother
my child, said he, and putting the roll of bills
in an envelope, told her to take it to her mother
and he would ask for it when he wanted it. The
boy was cleared. In Mr.. Bradys parlor hangs
an exquisite picture. by Durand. with letter
on the back asking him to accept it rs a mark of
appreciation for his generous kindness in de-
Tending this poor boy. Mr.. Brady priced that
picture.
We quote this passage about Disraeli's un-
scrupulousness from Justin McCarthy's article
entitled English Toryism and its Leaders:"-
IDTee OF IOllr years ago. u DlICer, 1acJlOuS
attack made in the House of Commons
upon Mr. Stansfeld, then holding office in the
Liberal government, because of his open and
avowed friendship for and intimacy with MAJ
| zini This was at a time when the French Gov
| ernment were endeavoring to connect Mazzini
| with plot to assassin0te the Emperor Napoleon.
| Mr.. Disraeli was very stern in his condemnation
| of Mr.. Stansfeld for his friendship with one who,
twenty odd years before, had encouraged
young enthusiast Gas the enthusiast said) in a
design to kill Charles Albert, King of Sar-
dinia. Mr.. Bright, in moderate and kindly
| speech deprecated the idea of making
| pardonable crimes out of the hot-headed fol-
lies of enthusiastic men in their young DAYS;
| and he added that he believed there would
be found in certain poem, written by Disraeli
himself some twenty-five or thirty years before,
| and called "a Revolutionary Epick," some
lines of eloquent apostrophe in praise of tyran-
nicide. Up sprang Mr. Disraeli, indignant and
excited and vehemently denied that any such
! sentiment any such line, could be found in the
| poem. Mr.. Bright at once accepted the
| surance; said he had never seen the poem him
| SELF but only heard that there such pas
| sage in it, apologiZed for the mistake-and there
most people thought the matter would have
ended. In truth, the volume which Disrael had
published n generation before, with the grandilO-
| quent title, IA Revolutionary Epick" (not
| ''epic" in the common way, but dignifed, old
| fashioned 'epick"), was piece of youthful,
| bombastic folly, long out of print, and almost
| wholly forgotten. But Disraeli chose to attach
| great Importance to the charge he supposed to
| be made against him. and he declared that he
| felt himself bound to refute it utterly by more
| than a mere denial. Accordingly in few weeks,
there came out new edition of the Epck,
with dedication to Lord Stanley, and a
preface explaining that as the first edition was
| out of print, and as a charge founded on pas
| sage on it had been made against the author,
said author felt bound to issue this new edition,
| that all the world might see how unfounded was
the accusation. Sure enough, the publication did
| seem to dispose of the charge effectively. There
| was only one passage which in any way bore on
| the subject of tyrannicide and that certainly did
not express approval. What could be more
satisfactory? Unluckily, however, the gentle
to possess one copy of the original edition. He
compared this, to make assurance doubly sure
with the copy at the British Museum the only
other copy accessible to him, and he found that
the passage which contained the praise of tyran-
nicide had been partly altered. partly suppressed
in the new edition specially issued by Mr.. Dis
raeli, in order to prove to the world that he had
| not written n line in the poem to imply that he
sanctioned the Staying of tyrant Now, this
was small and triting affair; but Just see how
significant and characteristic it was 1t surely
did not make much matter whether Mr. Dis
rei in his young nOnsenscal days, had or
had not indulged in a burst of enthusiasm about
the Staying of tyrants in poem so bOmbastical
that no rational man could think of it with any
seriousness. But Mr.. Dsraei chose to regard
his reputation seriously assailed; and what
! did he do to vindicate himself? He published Il
new edition, which he trumpeted as not merely
authentic, but as issued for the sole purpose of
proving that he had not praised tyrannicide, and
he deliberately eXcised the lines which contained
the passage in question! The controversy turned
on some two lines and Il half and of these Mr..
Disraeli cut out all the dangerous words and
gave the garbled version to the world rs his all-
thoritatiYe reply to the charge made against him
This, too, after the famous annexation" of one