The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-21

thing except your attempt to Baconizs
Really is 1t not the work instead OF the
man that you are 90 fond OFF"
mo. / am of French parentags and must
lave personi6cation."
GENERAL BENNY.
asked q gentleman to-day who has occa.
sion to know. concerning the qualifications
of General DENLY, whom the Hoosiers have
hopes will yet receive the Chinese Mission
General DENLY" was the reply, sis one
of the pest lawyers in Indiana"
''Do you know Judge Baldwin, a. W.
Hendricks and David Turpie and other
members OF the profession in Indiana?"
II do"
What OF his scholsrship?'
HE is graduate of the Georgetown Uni
verify, then as now. one of the foremost
educational institutions in the country. He
has always been a close student, speaking
French and German quite fuently. He was
once familiar with Spanish, but having no
occasion to speak the language it has left
him. But language once learned can never
would make General Derby q good Spanish
scholar. We never heard of him In q polit-
ical way for the reason that the practice of
jurisprudeDce filed the measure of his au,bi
ton. He is q hard-working inhabitant OF
the Pocket"
MR.. HENDRICKS COLLEGE SPEECH.
Yale refused to Iescind the contract, and
Mr.. Hendricks will have to speak. He is
working on it at odd hours. The discourse
will account for the development Of juris-
prudence in this country. We're making
the speech would quote and inderse John
Swintcn, WHO SAYS: "Tnis Is government
of the lawyers, for the lawyers and by the
lawyers" Mr.. Hendricks will leaYe that
out. He does not like anything sensational.
49, L. l.
materially differ with the President, Vice
President, United States Senators and mem.
bers of Congress Buckles, inshis History OF
Civilization, Gays that the highest talent
OF this country enters the profession
of jurisDrudence. j quoted that to Mr..
Hendricks and he answered that he was
hardly prepared to believe with Buckles. He
said that this was particularly q commercial
sge, and he could not say that the best talent
vas going into profession at all. Another
European observer has said, should, would
or might have said: 1.-THE lawyers are the
aristocrats of America" Mr.. Hendricks will
evidently pay no attention to that. Douglass
Jerrold said something like this: "What the
eunuchs are to Turkey the lawyers are to
England" That is picturesque and expires.
siye, If net absolutely correct. Charles
Dickens records that in Boston be listened
for an hour to lawyer addressing q
jury without being able to learn
was the only thing on this side of
the Atlantic reminded him Of home. But
Mr.. Hendricks in his address to the law stu
dents of Yale will not dwell on those phases
Of the subject. He will account for tho
growth Of Jurisprudence in America in the
questions eliminating Ia and growing out of
the struggle with the parent country. The
legal relations of the States have largely con
duced to thought. The treaties of the Gov
eminent with the Indians and slavery were
long considered: legal questions Every in
telligent voter in this country becomes to
some extent q lawyer. American Law books
are recognized as authority wherever the Ian.
guage is spoken. JAP TURPEN.