The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
Badger, Stanley, Miller, Pc IL
grew, Hay~o1i.

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mIngton Daily STIR. esus ner'i X u H..
article Of Mr. Z. II. Winston. Jr, 10 3
recent issue of the furn1er md Kech1H
&c mentions the surprising land I diff
d Mt persons e~necuragingl fact that Sem
ator Badgers first political speech was
made nfterhe had passed has fortaefh yesrr.
Says Mr.. X:
1T was in Oxford in 1910. And yet
how rapidly he learnt, Before ne left
the United States Senate be was the rec
ognized leader of the Wing party and
was 80 declared By the leading Democratic
paper of Washington. When he left
the Senate a Democratic Senate passed
very compliUlentar, resolutions express
ing their regret that the mutations Of
parties neccssitatei his retirement. We
heard his greatest political speech In
North Carolina. II was in 1916 before
the Wing State Convention. Judge Ed
win @ Reade thinks it the finest speech
he has ever heard, either in the Com
gre>s or in any assembly or convention.
Ii was pro~digiously fine until he was bro
ken In upon by the late Hon. Louis ID.
Henry, who interrupted MIR Badger
with great personal sharpness Mr., Bad
ger never recovered, and the last part OF
his speech wa tame and fat. When
Senator John j. Crlteaden, OF Ken
lucky. left the Senate TO tecome Govern
or of his State he gave all of his cases
TO Mr.. Badger. When Rufus Choate
was unable to attend to a very impo1-
tant maritime case Mas>a hu>etts had
be, ore the United States Supreme
Court, be called urou Mr. RJbert {.
Winthrop 10 know what lawyerl in Wash
ington Il would do to employ. Mr..
Winthrop said give The case to Mr.
Badger. Tut, tut, responded Mr..
Choate, what does Badger know about
maritime lawf He never had a case oil
ihIs kin In his life : Never you
mind, sand The gentlemanly and accom-
p.lshed Winthrop, try him, and then
60 TO Washington and hear his argu-
ment, u your conclusion will be that
Badger had never done anything IN his
HE but To practice IN admiralty courts
Mr.. ebster once read a statement pre-
pared by Mr.. Badger for his guidance 10
a case North Carolina had before Il 9
L. ;. Supreme Court. Webster bad
been retained. Badger had not practiced
before the highest court, but at Web
ster : request had prepared a history of
the case. Ii was so luminous. SO able,
SO exhaustive that ''the. god like DANIEL
said to the court that 10 lieu Of any ar
gument of his own, he would read a pa
per prepared at his request by a gentle
man who, he regretted to say, di not
practice IN hat court He afterwards
gave Mr.. Badger a letter of introduction
to Judge Story, which ran something
Ike this: Permit me to introduce To
your acqualnta nee, George h. Badger,
OF North Caro- iua, your equal and my
superior.
MIR. Badger had a magnificent voice.
was a actor, and was the
greatest II an yet born in North Carolina.
This We think too strong. Ed. F Il VI.
Ite late Gen. Johnston Pettigrew, if his
lie had been spared, might have shown
as greal or greater ability, for he was
wonderfully endowed, and the great law
yer of % tn Carolina, j.. L.. Pettigru.
regarded hlm as intellectually higher and
abler naturally than John e.. Calhoun.
These were great men, but they are gone
forever. Nr. Badgers speeches in the
campaign referred TO by "A LAWYER
did not come up to public expectatlon.
ruWaru Uranam nay WOOD, then about
thirty years of age, canvassed also, and
gentlemen of intelligence thought his eff
forts of consummate ability. Mr.. Miller
was a great political speaker. La a for
mer article We gave our Impressions, and
have yet to hear any public speaker who
was as strong as Miller was. He was a
slow man rather. He needed time for
preparation. but when he was ready it
was a strong man indeed who could with
stand him.