Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-11-14

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thrilling whisper and concentrated
argument and language simple as a
childs had satisfied the demand Of the
intellect and this; two, in only twenty
minutes It was like the work of q
mathematical demonstration =.
He then changed his posture so as to
sweep the bar with his glance, and like
raging hon, rushed upon ,his! adver-
saries, tearing and rending their
sophistries into atoms His sallow face
glowing like a red hot iron, the forked
blue veins swelled and wreathed on his
brow, his eyes resembled live Goals, and
his voice was the clangor Of a trumpet.
| never before since, listened to such
appalling denunciation. 1t was like
Jove's eagle charging flock Of crows.
It was like Jove himselfhurling thunder
bolts in the shuddering eyes of inferior
gods. And yet in the highest temper
Of his flry he seemed wonderfully calm.
He employed no gesture save one-the
flash Of a long bony finger directly in
the paid faces Of his legal foes. He
painted their venality and humanity
baseness inecoalescing, for money, to
crush friendless female, till shout of
stihed wrath broke from the multitude,
and some of the sworn. panel cried
'sshame." And thus the orator had
carried another point, had aroused a
perfect storm of Indignation against the
prosecutors, and this also in twenty
minutes r 53 ,
,, He changed his theme once more.
His voice grew mournful as a funeral
airge, and his eyes filled with tears, as
he traced vivid picture Of mans
erulties and woman's wrongs, with
special application in the case of his
client, till half the audience wept like
children. tH.
But it wis In the peroratioil that he
reached the zenith both of terror and
sublimity His features We're lived as
those of corpse; his very hair appeared
to stand on end; his nerves shook as
with palsy; he tossed his hands wildly
toward heaven, each finger spread apart
and quivering like the flame Of a
candle as he closed with the last
words Of deceased Hiram Shore -"Tell
my mother that. l am dead and gone TO
HE'LL" His emphasis on the word hell
embodied the elements of all horror.
1t was wall of Unreasonable despair,
a wild howl of infinite torture. No
language cab depict, its effect on all
who heard it. Men groaned, woman
shrieked, and one poor women was
borne away in commissions The entire
speech occupied but an hour
~ The jury rendered verdict of mot
guilty" without leaving the box, and
three tremendous cheers, like successive
roars of an earthquake, shook the court
house from dome to cornerstone, testi-
flying the joy Of the people At the
same moment the beautiful milliner
bounded to her feet and clasped the
triumphant advocate in her arms, ex-
claiming-'3Oh, my husband! my dear
husband!' t4
Denton smiled, and seized her hand,
whispered word In her ear, and they
ioA0 ohc pt1 IoSetisi, P1oCeeucu " tHt
landing and embarked on steamboat
bound for New Orleans. 1t seems that
they had previously parted on account
of his causeless jealousy, after which she
assumed false name and came to
Little 3 Rock How he learned her
danger could not ascertain.
They returned to Texas. The husband
was a colonel in the revolution, ana
escaped its perils only to fall the next
year in a terrible fight with the Conan
chees. A new country in the cross
timbers, country of wild woods roman
tic as own Emma's sweet face, COM
memorates his name-the name of a
transcendent star that set too soon,
which had now been the first luminary
in the political sky of Texas, if not in
the circle of the whole Union, for he
was natures Demosthenes of the Yves
tern woods! .--...