Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1891-08-20

it was red, and came into the Court in
u fighting humor the next morning.
The Judge admitted some testimony
that told heavily against the defend
ant, Tom S client.
Marshall rose quickly to his feet and
said: May it please your Honor, Jesus
Christ was convicted by Pontius PLATE
by the admission of justsuch testimony
as this
The Judge rose to his feet, flushed
with anger. mr.. Clerk, fine Mr..
Marshall fifty dollars. The Court will
not submit to such insolence."
Marshall sobered amazingly in a
moment, and looking the court in the
eye, with an effectation of penitence,
said: your Honor knows that / have
not had $50 of my own money for
more than six months; will the Court
lend me the money to pay the fine?"
The Court reflected an instance and
then, with all the severity it could
command, the Judge said: "Clerkl
remit that fine of $50 against Mr.. Mar
shall. The State of Kentucky is bet
ter able to lose that money than lamp"
That Tom Marshall was capable of
equisite depth of feeling, united to a
classic and scholarly style, is shown in
his beautiful eulogy IN Richard 7.
Menifee, a spirit touched to fine
issues, " a lawyer round and perfect as
q star in all the requirements of hat
great profession. The eulogy was de-
livered at Pennsylvania University on
the 10th Of April, 1S41, and raj as fol-
lows:
II come not merely to acquit me of
a duty to one whom / personally loved
and admired, to weave, alas, a fading
garland for his tomb or scatter affec-
tionate incense over his ashes. Death
canonizes a great name and the seal of
the sepulchre excludes from its slum-
bering tenant the breath of envy. And
surely if ever there was a mirror in
which young genius could glass and
fashion itself, if ever there were moulds
in which the forming intellect could
be cast in the first and full proportion
of graceful energy and perfect strength,
Richard 7. Manifee was that mirror
and that mould. Already had his
daring boyhood governed men. Rich
ard Menifee was first named after
Henry Clay. Like steel from a flint
the collision with other minds struck
fire from his own. Menifee was op-
pressed by the prenomen of his in
fancy, and fired even in childhood by
the memory of his great countryman,
breathed often to heaven his fervent
orison that he might one day equal the
eloquence, the greatness and reputa-
ton of Mr.. Clay.
"The great Characteristic of Menifee's
mind was strength; mis- predominant
faculty was reason; the aim of his elo-
quence was to convince. With an
imagination rich but severe and chaste,
Of an elocution clear, and per-
fectly ready, he employed the one as
minister and the other as the disciple
of demonstrations"
mo giant form set forth his common
height"
"Bonum vffem facile credens magnus
libenter.o
"There was nothing restless or i'm
patient about him. His was deliber-
ate, concentrated, disciplined energy.
He had that managed calmness of gen.
eral manner which SO often betokens q
fiery and excitable temperament, but
under the most perfect control. OF an
integrity stainless as the untrodden
snow, and without one vice to con
sumo his time or waste his career, he
was sure to devote himself to the inter
est of his clients.
HE was the slave of honor and not
the drudge of avarice. 1t was indie
pendence for himself and his nestlings.
He regarded the courtier bringing at
the foot-stool of a throne and a mob
as equally the foes of freedom and the
just objects of patriotic execration.
"Menifee went to Congress in 1887.
He encountered hostility in his up
ward fight-when did soaring genius
fail to do it?-and meaner birds would
} have struck this eagle from his path
way to the skies. Ambition has been
) called the last deformity of noble
minds : to me it seems to constitute
} their essence, their intellectual splen-
dor and their strength. / mean not
the love of power, but hat higher
ambition-the love, the yearning after
that im%perishable fame which shines
through far generations and with in
creasing light over the memory of
great and glorious talents gl~oriously
exerted in the cause of justice and
mankind. When apprised that his last
hour had come, Brief summons he
replied, and he manned himself to die
with dignity"
Perhaps the father of spontaneous
stump oratory Of the West was Tom
Corwin, of Ohio. Had he never risen
to the loftiest heights of o%ratory and
thus had listening Senates at his
HEELS" Tom CROWN would have at
times discounted any end nan that
ever handled the bones. The very
sight of Corwin in action ON the stump
provoked inextinguishable laughter