The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-05-09
rejected for she Dispasch.l
wsscxss,s OF HAstlctosa waller Ea2eweit'

wsrcS.a, OF HAstlctosa waller Tazeweit.'
Tn this borough Norfolk resides nian--a
!. nrnc1itioner OF 'law---one OF the best curers'
81 vanity that, have ever met with. Lam
opposed To him at the bar, and very rareiy
am I SO without the most sensible humliis-
tion. He is, indeed, an uncommon man; q
Young one, too--that is. about my own age.
and the only comfort have whenl compare
myself with him is the reflection OF the s,l-
pcrior advantages which he has had. bis
name Is Lntieton Waller, Tazewell. His
father was q Judge Of the General Court OF
this Commonwealth, then a judge OF the
Supreme Court Of Appeals, arc uted as
member OF the Senate OF the United states 4.
for Virginia These honors show the estl-
nation In, which The virtues and talents
Of the father were held, and Justly held, by
the country. The son Is confessedly very
far the fathers superior in point OF native
talents, and he has had an education un-,
equalled by any in the State. He was not
more than seven years OF age When ne was
placed in the family Of Bishop Madison, the
president OF William and Mary College, and
the particular friend OF his father. unaer
the instruction Of this gentleman ana tne
various professors OF that seminary he be
came master OF the dead languages and OF
some living ones, and by the time he was
the sciences and first-rate historian. SO
that while /, with little knowledge OF
Latin and less OF Greek, was mounted upon
a bench in the Seneca Westinghouse teach
ing parcel of little boys and girls to sofia
it, this gentleman was conversing with the
planetary system, ranging through all
nature, and learning wisdom from the
experience OF nations that are no more.
Thus accomplished, he was, sc thc
age OF seventeen, placed by his father
in the Office OF Mr.. Wickham, o relation
by affinity-the rival OF Marshall and OF
Washington (Bushrod), and their supc'
rior before jury. In the Office. or tins
gentleman he had the advantage OF most
extensive and iudiciously selected library
he heard daily and hourly counsel gwen py
this eminent advocate on every variety
OF cases: he learned the technical
and practical parts OF the professor ,
ACQUIRED the best system OF arranging
his papers and going through the routine OF
professional duties, and, being in the metro
nolis. he had before him not only the most
finished models Of forensic argument and
clooucnce in the superior courts OF the State,
but he had an opportunity OF lighting ms
genius ut the altar Of q Henry and Lee In
the Virginia Legislature. - alh
ashamed to pursue the parallel any farther;
but this gentleman came to the bar, where
he found himself master OF every question
that was started; whittier he brought with
him the law-learning and address OF his mas
ter and all the stores and treasures which ne
had amassed at college; whittier he brought
with him what is, if possible, more import
ant than them all, the firmly-rooted habits
OF industrious application and Of close and
forcible thinking. Here he soon felt
what it was to be touched with the anl-
mating beam OF public applause and and
admiration, and he had the still
more exquisite pleasure OF gladden..
ing the heart OF father and
filing it with proud and rapturous antici-
pations. OF all these pleasures my evil stars
and own imprudence deprived me. Against
all my disadvantages OF education and OF
habit I have to struggle. ! have, indeed,
with the aid OF Divine Providence, cast OF
the debauchee; bus when l compare the
neat and systematic habits OF this gentle
man-his papers, his pleas, his argyll
ments-with the chaos which contrive to
create around me, and my loose, irregular,
and desultory mode of acting and speaking,
/ am so far from finding occasion OF vanity
that am humbed in the dust. E1trGct
of a letter of William Writ to Mr.. Benja-
min Ed,odrdS, January10, 1906.