Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-30
PLYMOUTH PORTRAITS.


OF the American Bar"
Brooklyn Correspondence of the Philadelphia
Times
If Beeeher was not in the way should
say that Mr.. Evarts bore a most remark.
able likeness to General Hamilton, of
South Carolina, of whom old Grimke
wrote:a 1IIl
lie walks erect with self-respect,
And looks defiance. too
Brave chicftain Of the poultry yard,
Great cock a-doodle d."
To arraign SO great legal fame would
be an assumption, but man can often
be seen through his law, and am always
amused to see Evarts, who is a polemical
kind Of lawyer, throw the grandeur Of
his smallness into an audience. He has
good deal Of Beecberism about him,
and mixes platitude, law and arti6ce to-
gether, and delivers the Cruel with the
seriousness Of Don Quixote administer
ing his magic lotion to an audience of
Sancho Panzas. h..
Imagine man resembling one Of the
old-iashioned schoolboys, with high
stock, a rueful countenance and high
hat clspped on the summit of lean,
theatrical figure, stalking into court ff
teen minutes late every day, but con-
scious that there can be no justice when
he is absent. In a few minutes he starts
up at an available place and speaks
perhaps, as follows; Now, if ' our honor
please, our point is this, to wit: That in
the scale of moral balances there are
nay, mrst-by law be computed, and if
not so computable obtain in ethics no
standard of weight, measurement or dy-
namics, and that amongst these articles
is the article now in evidence, to-wit:
dried apples, which, in the res digeste
Of the case, and my brother Abbott has
authorities to bear me out, expand, en-
large, rotundify, and il your honor
please, saceH in the human gastronomy
when associated with fads sufficient to
their purposes, and that, so initiating
they produce upon the profunctory parts
Of our imperfect pature simila smili-
bus, as the ancients had it, to-wit: colic
CoLICW Here the Plymouth rows,
which, like anything little ineompre
hensible, lean forward and hold
their boofs in readiness for a
slam, while g poor, resigned juryman
dead to his friends-cuts off a
fresh chew of tobacco. Something in
Evarts swelling nostril and extensive
fore6nger frightens this juryman, so he
puts bis jaek-knife in his mouth aud
throws his tobacco under his chair. The
Head Of the American Bal" proceeds:
Now, you are down to collie, says Full
lerton, what is the wind of your argu-
mentP This, if your henor please, to-
wit In the distribution of worldly
equities this defendant, on the day in
question, working in the plane Of july
juty, honor, justice; honor, juty--did,
to-wit: in those portions of the struc-
tural man termed the inferior or abb
dominal, and they are, or ought to be,
or might have been, or thitherward, in
tuential throughout the areana Of So
eiety, being Wis inertia, coeval. coagu-
late, coordinate and co-extensive, that
he therein partook of the dried apples
in question las the law has it, pomne
sec), and that he did for that reason =
"Stopl says the Jndge; II see it was
painful situation. He lunched on dried
apples and spring water, and couldn't
get through the door ! overrule that
point. Go on, nowP' The "Head of
the American Bar" draws long breath
distends his valuable nostrils, glares at
the Judge as if his days we're numbered
on that tribunal, and slowly says
Your honor will note our exceptisn. I"
The Plymouth set, with Joe Howard,
the proclamation forger, skulkiug beside
the Judge, mentally exclaim; That
old Neison'll get patent griddle down
yonder, "