Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-06

had employed John T. Stuart to repre- sent him ill the defense of a suit that had been brought against him by one of his neighbors. When the term of court arrived during which the case was to be tried, Baddeley was approached by q tall and rather ungainly young man, clad ill suit of i'll fitting clothes, who had just driven into town and placed i'll his hands a letter from Stuart, which read:
 SPRINGFIELD, Ills, April g. 1842
 John ". Badaeey, Esq:
 DEAR STIt-I cannot possibly attend the Me 1 Lean court at this term, and I have therefore sent my partner Mr. Abraham Lincoln, who will hand you this note. He will attend to tho "Fell3 suit and will try it well. Please state | your case and bring your witnesses to him, l and you ean pay him the balance of my fee. | Very truly, JOHN T. STUART.
 Baddeley though living in primi- 1 tive county, had been reared ill Eng l land, where the courts were conducted ] i'll more ceremenious and less demo- cratic style, and he was therefore in no sense prepossessed by the plain, unas- suming, if not uneouth, young advo- cate who had handed him Stuart's note In fact, he gave vent to his dissatisfac- tion by abuse of Stuart and ridicule of his substitute and partner without limit Deeply yexed and disgusted, he walked up to the hotel, and, instead of ] stating his case to Lincoln, employed James A McDougall, afterward United States senator from California, to repre- sent him.
 Most of the stories told of Lincoln at the bar are, it is true, ridiculous and represent him ill anything but digni- fed light, but they better than anything else reveal the peculiar clements in his makeup, and they should therefore be preserved whenever there Is good reason to believe they are genuine. If proceed ings in court dragged, or he felt that his antagonist by his eloquence was capturing the jury, he would resort to some very cleverly planned and dramatic Interruption to break the gravity of the situation. If jury dared to grow sleepy on his hands, he knew how to wake them up. His antagonists were thus kept in constant fear of some adroit stroke on his part to create diversion. In this respect lawyers of this day would scarcely dare initiate him. The judge of a court before whom he tried case of some magnitude against a great corpo- ration testifies that i'll the midst of all elaborate argument-the court room being crowded with visitors-Lincoln happened to look down on himself and halted as if he discovered something wrong with his physical person. He de- liberately stopped his speech to the jury, remarking, Well, gentlemen, I find my gearing is out of order, and may as well take up the tackling a hitch CT two. He thereupon opened his vest and proceeded to readjust his suspenders i'll plain view of the court and speeta- tors. Presently he resumed his remarks to the jury as calmly and gravely as if nothing had happened.
 4 colleague at the bar testifies that he met Lincoln for the first time i'll 1854 at Urbana. *He sat on the bench for the judge awhile during the term, and my first motion i'll court was made be- fore him. 1 remember with what be- nightly he acted at time which al- ways tries the soul of fiedgeling at the bar. The next day he made some ar engagements about his horse and buggy and took the train fer point farther northwest, where he had an appoint ment to speak I saw him start for the train Being obliged to ride over two miles in an old dilapidated omnibus he was the sole occupant of the non descript conveyance. He had somehow secured and had i'll his hand 8 small French harp, with which he was mak- ing the most execrable music imagi- nable. l rallied him on this, to which, stopping his concert, he replied: "This is nay band. Douglas had q brass band with him in Peoria, but this will do me. " And he resumed his uneouth solo as the vehicle moved off. The primitive strains, somewhat disturbed by the jolt ing conveyance, foated cut upon the air till distance intervened. "
 h 1851 while attending court at Pe- tersbErg a crowd gathered about him at the tavern when he was engaged i'll q story telling bout with q noted racon- teur named Murray. A preacher i'll the town, Rev. A. II. Goodpasture, happen ing to pass and seeing the crowd of idle listeners, halted just long enough to re- mark ill the hearing of all, Where the great ones of the earth are there will the people be, and moved on. "Ro, p&rson, cried Lincoln, "a little more Scripture, Where the carcass is there will the eagles be gathered together. :" In his jocsts with fellow lawyors he was always apt and expressive To the methods of the opposing counsel in q suit he entt red strenuous protest, claim ing that the testimony was irrelevant ''Why cannot the counsel for the plain tiff he appealed to the court, "confine themselves to the real issue i'll this case? If I send man to buy horse for me, l expect him to tell me what his points are, not how many hairs there are in his tail D Of certain technical judge who was famed for his close construction of