The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-31

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the manned, the lame, and the halt,
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great gcandor and decision. - +"
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Charles O'Cenor and Edwin Forrest.
The present writer was at the time
of the Forest controversy in the city
of New York, and had the possible
means of knowing the facts connected
with Mr.. O'Conor's espousal of Mrs.
Forests cause. The facts are simply
these: Mr.. O'Conor had just finished
q trying and vexatious controversy,
| which lawyers call exdelicto, and had
made UP his mind that it should be the
last of the kind in which he would be
engaged. when he was waited upon by
lady, who wished to state her griev-
ances that she might secure his legal
services. This lady was Mrs. Forrest,
and it was against. such suit as her
story required, either to prosecute or
to defend, for there were cross-actions
in the Forrest controversy, that Mr..
O'conor had resolved to have nothing
to do with. But, by a singular cir
cumstance, there was an advocate for
Mrs. Forrest. She had the good for
tune to bear resemblance to his own
mother, whom he had lost when he
was but a boy, and for whom he had
an undying affection. At the first in
terview, Mr.. O'Conor signifcd his in
tention of acting as the counsel for
Mrs. Forrest. This advocacy of Mr..
O'Conor in behalf of any cause meant
with his ability, his fortune, and his
life.
Mr.. Forrest soon felt the effects of
this advocacy, and from this his dis
like to Mr.. O'Conor had it's birth. On
the occasion of waiting in court for
the argument of some motion before
the trial, he began to show this dis.
like, and to fix his eyes w>vindictively
on Mr.. O'Conor to stare him out of
countenance. 1t was intended to
be an exhibition of 4 scene in Mr..
FORESTS mind, no doubt of ''the glare
of the tiger before he pounces on his
prey For a man less resolute than
Mr.. O'Conor this might have served to
| intimidate and embarrasss. But be-
ing obliged to notice this extraordi-
nary conduct of Mr.. Forrest, he fixed
his eyes steadfastly on Mr.. Forrest's
until the other turned aside his glare,
signally defeated. As Mr.. Forrest
had a residence at Fort Hill and Mr..
O'Conor at Fort Washington on the
Hudson river, they were thrown in
the same line Of truvel. Here it hap
pened in the railroad cars that Mr..
| Forrest was so insolent in his behavior
toward Mr. O'Conor that the latter
called upon the people in the car to
bear witness to the notice that he gave
MIR. Forrest, that, unless he desisted
from his attacks on him, he would
shoot him. 1t is not true and it is alb
surd to suppose that ''Mr. O'Conor
procured a pistol and set up target
at his house and practiced on it every
morning, believing that he was really
in danger from the burly and passion.
ate tragedian.'' Mr.. O'Conor was a
good shot before any alteration with
MIR. Forrest had taken place, and was
OF too steady nerve to require any
more accuracy of aim than he already
possessed to shoot his man. A duel
was well understood to be out of the
question, for Mr.. O'Conor might well
know, and perhaps did, that Mr.. For
rest would not give a challenge for
prudential reasons aside even from
coWardice, and hostile message from
Mr.. O'Conor would have placed him
where Mr.. Forrest was anxious to see
HMM prison.
! Whether or not Mr.. O'Conor intend
ed to be as good as his word in shoot
ing Mr.. Forrest for his insults of be-
havior and language, cannot now be
known, but certain it is, tho last pub
lie meeting between them exploded in
another manner. 1t was in the fall
of the year, and Mr.. Forrest had spent
the summer in Pennsylvania, in which
place he was still supposed to.,be, when
he was seen one morning, in the same
train that carried Mr.. O'Conor and a
friend to the city of New York. Mr..
Forrest made his appearance as full of
unrestralned insolence toward Mr..
O'Conor as ever. It would seem that
he did not mind or care for Mr.. O'Con-
or's threat to shoot him, unless he re-
lied on the people present to protect
him. There was marked difference
in the bulk of the two men. Mr..
O'Conor was thin and spare, he may
have been as tall, but was not as Wig.
orous and bulky-looking as Mr.. Forrest.
The latter, too, had stout cane while
the former was wholly unarmed
When the depot at Thirty-fourth street
was reached, the cars went no further
From this spot Mr., O'Conor usually
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