The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10
4 Peep at Court.
[As.ociatc Reformed Presbyterian.l

[As,ocidtc Reformed Presbyterian.
A friend having very courteously o1ercd Us
ell ourselves OF the opportunity TO make a fly.
ing visit TO the county seat. And when we
inform our readers that. with this exception,
we have not been absent from Due West since
our last Commencement. they will agree with
US that a little recreation was not altogether
out OF place. Possibly. there may be some
curiosity on their part to knGw how we nav" y :
questionable whether we could give o salts
factory account OF ourselves. We have been
doing ian infinite deal OF nothing. more than
any man In all Venice" II Is very pleasant
to look ut the world Through the loopholes
Of retreat" as the author Of the Task has 1t;
but we suppose 1t would be more profitable to
follow the counsel OF another poet, ITO be up
and doing" But enough OF preamble.
We found the Court In session, MS honor
dignity. He Is, apparently, some sixty years
OF age, and in very good preservation. a
friend remarked to us In the Court room tnat
he bore q striking resemblance TO the late
scanning bis features more closely. we concur
red with our friend, a distinguished alumnus
Of ErskIne College. His Honor, Judge Press
~. Is Of the same Lineage, We are informed, OIL.
6 In the ultimate, against which we hereby
enter our humble protest. He Is a member oil
the Baptist church, and 1--WE believe) was ex.
pected TO make an address TO the sabbath
CIINH ll ~ ShS Avn
church, but was prevented by some delay on
the train. 1t Is a good thing for the state
when such men are elevated to the Bencn,
duty With With am am eve single to the glory Of the
Supreme Judge.
Through the courtesy OF our friend and class
mate, w. H.. Parker, ESQ. we were invited 20
known to the citizens OF Abbeville county as
an able lawyer and q gentleman OF unlm-
peachable Integrity. He received his prepar.
n:ory education in Charleston, and graduated
at an early age, and with great distinction. In
he stood particularly we'll. We have a dis
ttnct recollection OF the elegance and huency
with which he rendered the Tusculan Dispu.
t~ations: and how we were filled with admira'
tion and envy az he SCARED among the "Clouds
Of A~ristophanes."
Having been absent from the State some
years. and not having witnessed the agony OF
reconstruction, we were not prepared for the
novel spectacle OF colorpd jurors sitting side
by side with their old masters, and exercising
all the prerogativcs OF freemen. 1t afforded
us great pleasure to observe the kind feeling,
and even cordiality, which subsis.ed on both
their right names) is beginning to md out
that his old master Is bis best friend. The
history Of the Southern people since the wnr
BILE or Esop. In the body polite, the stomach
as well as the hands and the feet, has Its I'D.
propriate work. The master was not Idle be
cause ne did not hold the plough, or Wlesd the
axe, or drive the wedge. The freedmen are
beginning to find this out, and the result is q
better understanding between the races 9
more submissive spirit on the one part, and
on the other, a disposition to extend the help
Ing hand.
In learning and ability, the bar OF Abbeville
will compare favorably, we doubt not, with
that OF any other county In the State. There
may be no such statesman az Calhoun, nc
such orator as McDuffie, no such Jurist al
Wardlaw, or Harper, or Legare; but we saw
before us eminent lawyers, eloquent advo
| Gates. and finished scholars. We saw one o.
least, (perhaps others.) whose name has beer
mentioned In connection with the highest Of
fee In the Suite. We saw another Whose
modesty (for lawyers are modest) Is the only
obstacle In the way Of his preierment. With
in hat Bar sat warworn and battle. scarce
soldiers, who followed the standard OF Lev
and Jackson, and, when the trouble was over
DOTTED the habiliments of war, n GRACEFUL!
donned the costume OF peace. Long may the!
live!
But, reader, the best remains TO be told-w'
bad a capital dinner at Judge Thomson's, I,
which we did ample Justice. His Honor wa
absent, but we found Mrs. T. at home, tw'
sons and q daughter, and his newly marrict
daughter.in-law. formerly Miss Fannie H
We may be allowed to add that j Judge Thorn
son taught us the alphabet, some forty.nve o
MY years ago. which he says we learned II
one day. We don't remember. p.