Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-07-18
OUR CANDIDATE FOR CIRCUIT
JUDGE,

JUDGE.
Gen. H. I. Campbell is a notable ex-
ample of what youth of bright wit,
good common sense and noble ambition
can accomplish.
In his young days he was emphati.
cally Zone of the boys" He was proud
to be an honored and trusted leader in
all the rollicking frolics and sports so
characteristic of mountain regions. His
resourceful fancy was never dazed nor
bewildered in contemplating and ma
turing plans for exhaustess merriment
and high rolling festivities. Oft has
his massive form chased his huge shad
ow through the gorges and up the
mountain Drecipices of his native heath
as he skipped by the light of the silver
moon. 1t was his delight alternately
to play prankson the guileless noun
taine,r and to play on the affections of
his buxom daughter as she played the
queen in her mountain court. Whilst
his farmer, lawyer competitor was SOW
ing his turnip patches. digging his po
tatoes, gathering his beans, cutting his
harvests, tossing the fragrant hay,
driving the polished steel through the
grassy glebe, plowing his corn, taking
his fodder and gathering his porkers
and warbling his eloquence before en-
tranced juries, it was Tyler's wont to
sally forth, shod in natures sandals,
his coarse togs, supported by Il lone gal
las, rolled up above his knees, under
sombrero that grew in a neighboring
bulrush patch for quiet, medtative
hours in some hidden court of fern,
rock and shade, where he could hear
the plash of the timid naiads gambol-
ing in the CLASSY pools and the weird
voices of the sybils of the solitude, see
the linny tribes dashiug their speckled
beauty through the prismatic hues of
the trembling waters and ever and
anon putting one on his string, and
lying between times prone on the vel
vet margin and watching the unseen
spirits of the sky driving their chariots
of ileecy cloud across the azure fields
above and dreaming as boys will dream
and building rs boys will build to the
strains of natures thousand stringed
Tyre, castles in the air, where the favor
ing deity of youth would bring him
glory, wealth and power.
The boy began to realize that life
was not all palace of song, hall of
mirth and a paradise of ease. The
vanishing Of the enchantment revealed
its earnest tolls, ceaseless energies,
hard realities and stern conflicts. He
determined to be a man among men,
to engrave his name among the honor
ed and the useful. No discouragement,
no adversity should impede or obstruct
the new current of life that this high,
grand resolve had inspired in his soul.
He is of heroic mold and lofty aspira.
ton and could he have mingled in the
stirring scenes and events of the late
war, he wpnld have won lanrcled hon
ors in his eountry's service, stirred by
I the impulses of his young enthusiasm
he took up his neglected books and
studied with untiring diligence, with
an extraordinary aptitude for the legal
profession, easily mastering the pro
foundest intricacies of the law he.cains
to the bar finely equinped for his lie
work. Success with him began at the
beginning. He did not have to wal
pfor clientage. He never knew tn,
gloomy visits that -stretehss ,bsfore.th,
brietless lawyer Hisrising fame soon
ou,grew the.hsrrow confines of loca
field His brightness, readiness ant
forensic power as an advocate attract
ed general attention and evoked tn,
highestpraise. In the young summer
of his years he was nominated anC
elected Prosecuting Attorney. In eff
fectiveness, fearlessness, close atten
tion to business and consummate tao
, in handling criminal cases, his recorC
is not surpassed and has been yer,
) rarely equaled. He has served will