Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1891-08-20
MARSHAL. AND GlaWlT
The Two Great Orators Of
Kentucky and Ohio.

"Oratory seldom changes votes said
Lord Macauley, but political oratory
nerves the weak, encourages the strong
and inspires the doubling partisan.
Among the minor stump orators of the
West is Mahlon Chance, of Ohio, who
has reduced stump-speaking to an ex-
act science.
He had in the last Presidential cam
paign one particular speech which he
said was the met purport and upshot"
of sixty different speeches he had made
in several preceding campaigns.
Chance relates with great gusto how
the solid men of different localities were
always at his hotel after the meeting to
express the sense Of their deep obiiga-
ton for his clear and cogent arguments.
During the last Presidential campaign
Chance says he was very much graft
fled after q rousing assembly of the
faithful in the interior of P~ennsylva-
MIA to see q venerable Methodist lady,
VINO called on him at the close of the
meeting and taking him warmly by
the hand, exclaimed, 'Ihave heardthe
circus (%circuit) rider, the locust Clocal)
preacher, and now / have heard the
exhauster (exhorter)."
Tom Marshall, of Kentucky, is re-
membered US q link between the nat
ural and the miraculous oratory of the
South and West. AS a lawyer he was
more eloquent, but not SO admirable,
as his more cultured brother, Hum
phrey Marshall, who was a brigadier
general under the Confederacy and
was driven away from Tennessee by
General Garfield.
Tom Marshall is held in loving re-
membrance by the bar of Kentucky,
but his speeches are only "a tragedy,
though it is said that in forty years.
full practice he never lost a capital
case before u jury. Marshall was
reputed, and justly so, the brightest
man at the bar of Kentucky in repair
tee, and ready with what William Writ
called the felix audacitas and the
blood-curdling personality, powerful
and effective weapons before a jury.
Many anecdotes still live il the blue
grass country " near Lexington, whore
some of his greatest forensic triumphs
were won, of the c%omaraderie and
good fellowship which made him the
most popular man in Kentucky.
DIR. Robert j.. Breckenridge, the dis
tinguished and sturdy loyalist, went to
school with Marshall. After each bad
filed his niche on ''Fame'sproud sleeps
which shine AFFAIR." the man of the Lord
and the man of the law, breckenridge
and Marshall, met at the Gault House
in Louisville. The meeting was warm
and ELUSIVE.
We'll" said Marshall, putting his
hand on Breckenridge's shoulder,
Bob, we were brought up together,
educated at the same school, but we
each started out with different texts.
But we've both stuck close to them.
Mine was the bottle; yours was the
Bible"
Judge Nuttle was n curious charac-
ter, who thoroughly appreciated the
humorous and the brilliant side of elo-
quent Toms legal character. Mar
shall is a dangerous customer, especi-
ally after an entire night devoted to
opening the festive Jackpot, and many
o time the Judge threatened to lock up
the brilliant barrister for contempt of
court. This is the same Judge who
once adjourned the court to see the
elephant lin a travelling menagerie)
swim the Ohio river.
sa"Crier, adjourn this COURT" ex-
exclaimed the Judge, when the circus
came into town; ''the Court desires TO
see the elephant SWIM
Marshall defended Matt Ward, of
Kentucky, who killed Schoolmaster
Butler for whipping his son. The trial
was held, not in Louisville, but in the
interior of the state, before one of the
most dignified Judges of the Supreme
Court. Every step Of the case was
fought with magnificent ability by a
galaxy Of the greatest talent in the
State.
Marshall had fingered at the poker
table and tasted often of the wine when