The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-11

The poet, Albert Pike, followed with q rich
rein of wit and a hail torrent of ridioule, IN
which you may be sure neither the piaintil fol
1or the pialntlis ragged attorney "e'o oi' ut
forgotten or spared. , ! Ps
The great Prentiss concluded for the defend ~
as shower Of falling stars. and With final
burst of oratory that brought the house down ID
in cheers, in which the sworn jury themselves oe
Joined, Notwithstanding the stern " ordec" OF m
the bench. Thus wonderfully susceptible are @
the southwestern people to the charms OF I'M ia
passoned eloquence. 1T
NAMED apparently distracted during all the +
previous speeches. Still, and straight ana
inotionless in his seat his pale smooth fore. II
head shooting up high like q mountain conc OF
snow ; but for that eternal witch that came Il
and went perpetually in his sallow cheeks, you Z
would hav taken him for o mere man OF mar
ble, or a human man carved in ace EVon MS =
dim, dreary eyes were invisible beneath those !
But now at last he rises before the bar rail
| ing not behind--and near the wondering
| jury that he might t"nch the foreman with ms
| long, bony finger. With eyes still halt shnt,
aud standing rigid as pillar OF iron, ms Ghin
lips curl rs if III measureless scorn slightly
part, and the voice comes forth. At first it IL
low and sweet, insinuating itself through the
| brain MS an artless tune winding its way into
the deepest heart, like the melody of magic
out a gesture or the least sign of excitement
to tear in pieces the argument OF Ashley, tnaS
f melts away at his touch as drost before Inc Inc
logic was ut once 30 brief, and 80 iuminously
: clear, that the rudest peasant could compre-
!, Anon, he came to the dazzling wit of the
. poet lawyer, Pike. Then the curl of his lip
. grow sharper-his sallow face kindled up-and
~ his ewes began to open, dim and dreamy no
10 longer, but vivid as lightning, red as hre
globes, and glaring like twin nste sn ha ne
stpeame s1o out on the face N minutes
g. pixies wit seemed the foam of folly, and his
or finest satire horrible profanity, when con
t trasted with the nimitable sallies and exter,
"a minating sarcasms Of the stran ger intersperseo
"a with jest and anecdote that flled the forum
~ with roars of laughter.
* Then. without so much as bestowing an
.ts allusion to Prentiss. he turned short on the
W. perured witnesses of Hopkins, tore their tes-
oa such terrible invectves that all trembled ns
' 'I with an ague, and two of them actually He'd
~ dismayed from the courthouse
IN | The excitement of the crowd was becoming
~, tremendous. The united life and soul appear.
,ss ed to hang on the burning, sosthtng words o.
a the stranger. He inspired them with the power
ace the poison of his own malicious feelings: M
''' seemed to have stolen natures long hidaet
10 sea of all thought and emotion which rose ant
Ila 1t fell and rolled in pillows rs he CHOSE Blu
fife his greatest triumph was to come; a,s eyH
,s Hopkins and his lean, taper fingers slowly as
pre- pre- sumed tho same direction. He hemmed in tn
ia wretch with q decentralization of strong ev
.. dence and impregnable argument, cutting o.
I'D all hope of escape. He piled up huge bastion
to of insurmountable facts He dug beness sns u
|
. W W mas such as no sophistry could overleap an
nfa9 no stretch of ingenuity evade; and hav!n
Wv. e | and rirt him about like scorpion in hrs
o.. nv stripped himself to tho work of massacre.
her Oh! then, but it was vision & orious an
San before graceful the wave of golden wlilo
,,;tn IN the breeze grew impetuous as the motion
was an oak in tho hurricane. His voice necano
anu the ears with crashes of power, and yet lnte
sns, mingled all the while with sweet under SOL
dad a drunkards-his countenance looked hagga
- like that of maniac, and ever and anon
fnrr flung his long bony arms on high, as II gras
ioa ing after thunderbolts. BE drew picture
Ih st the murder in such appalling colors that
~ comparison hell itself might be consider
It of beautiful He painted the slanaeref 90 DtS
, +bo shining on such an acoursed monster o
.ne then he 80 fixed both portraits on tho shrn
anEs asnsiSa q the ssSss
rp po speaker descended from his per1lous 9eig
~, 90 the beautiful Mary, more beautiful every =
pre- ment, as her tears flowed faster-till men we
wa and lovely women sobbed like children;
as- He closed by q strong exhortaton to the j
iEsmy and through them to the bystanders. he
treated the panel after they should bring
ience to the defendant, however richly
uuso might deserve it 4; in ether words, " not
md lynch the Slain TPPs Gas su the most art
'he trick of all, and best calculated to insure
Ilrous gennnIco:: 5ora5 q verdict of $50 OOO 6
asked AnT ~ ~ tarrrarSs Honkins was taken IF
eatb his bed ylynchers and beaten almost 10 TOO deS
49, houn-to Dewey, Tying and Bascom-but III
me u never heard anything in the form OF subj
III 'ne words remotely approxmating the
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not u " - an;n;n, IF all who have ever heard
d not 70 1uo ~ "
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