The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-03
How !Tac. Began tie Championship .:
Plymouth Church.

j yC'Irag. Tribune. Brooklyn Special. At ~
81 last, .Nact'y at l. -. 4 si1a-door opens.
aud through j enters the missing lawyer and
/ his clerk. : loud turn1a. OF qualification
greets his arrival, 10 which he responds ~
smiling and biushinc ilu-hing md smiling
| ~ turns. lie is clearly nervous to- all his
braSny frame and splenl!. yiSor. Walking
with 4 bold ana ilar i'll 'front.' 10 til. fable in
froLt OF the lury he squares lis broad shout
ders, throws lack hi, fine head, end grass
ing parcel OF maiipscrip. III one Ii End. raises
tAe other, AMI 80 commences the opening OF
the defense. JUS. as III ilorris's case. die
greater part Of tie audience had nc idea taa.
Tracy had eve, begun U9tll ii. had been
speaking five minutes.
lie merely read his address IN cold, unfaoi-
ing tones, which grew more ana more disa-
sreeable rs he proceeded. Il i were not for
il certain bitter and cynical twang 70 his voice,
you might have taken him for a very bad elo-
cUtionist reading q very lbelous article from
tac C.ie $50 I5neS. Imagine aIr. Story sen
fenced by J. yencetui tribunal to repeat what
somebody else Is his orders had written Of =
respectable citizen. with perhaps. v.s,;. Of
rawhide to stimulate Lis elocutonary zeal,
and you have d very good notion Of Gen. Ira
e. plunging along like q heavy cavalry scout
on the read over which The defense Of Mr..
Baechcr is 70 follow him. The jary were
eri3ently disappointed. and indeed, cast
down, when they discovered his intention of
reading to them ior three days from the six
hundred pages OF toolscap which were piled |
up before hila.
In good faith. believe tia. most o: them
would have pref RED a steady purgative
course OF Brother H,llday's sermons to the
slowly distilled ytriol OF the General The
audience fisuritivelv clrled itself up in dis
gust at the absence Of all dramatic effect,
L. H., i, Al !
y q glowing eulogy Of himself
s'ith winch the recitation commenced, became
quite dcovsy before recess arrived, looking as
/ lie Lad already heard over and again, as IL
iced he might. 10 the faithful. the troUnc-
ng which 1rac: bestowed upon Tilton was
SO f.r a5 one :0uld infer from the
Indications oi pious joy wA;ciA shona ia C.ld-
gelIs eyes, and the portentous noading. Of
loAls which punctuatta tho orltiouo
Hilton IN the language 81 late attendant
# the trial, took his Cruel ike 2 little major !
lie leaned back in his chair, rested his face
G 4in5t his lott hand, and played with bunch
/ keys in his breeches-pocket with the other
leach and Fullerton sat listening like a pair
+ sphinNes, Morgi. and Pryor whose
iphthet.c throat WAS swathed in Il tnneU
liked and wrote in buaiuess-like way, with
le sincerity Of q couple # farmers waiting
u a harmless treShet 10 subside and thus
1t chance to continue their husbandry.
racy used no gestures and made 10 differ
lca between his original speech and any doc
inent Incorporated III il.
The jury vas first expectanf. secondly dis
Dponted, aud finally lapsed into suikness.
Ike men who were being bored because they
,uId not help it. The general criticism on
e speech, as heard so far, is that Tracy's
'nnection with the case has therein finally
lown itself to be bIunder, both for himself "
III tor Beecher. The only thing that could
I'VE saved him from the reproach OF perfidy
ou!d have been a startling and brilliant ora
N i'll opening Beccher case.