Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-01-04
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elimination and recrimination, to the
Immense delectation and amusement
of large, appreciative audiences, and
as the net result thereof the young
neophy tie was az corded that qudntum
suficit of celebrity which be intensely
coveted, and this fiery Hotspur at this
period of his professional life may
perhaps be best described by the use
of the following distich:
"a fiery ettercap, a fractions chiel,
As bet as ginger, and as steve as STEEL"
Here he first displayed that strong
conn mon sense, aggressive courage
and indo mitable will and perseverance
which were the constituent elements
of his success, and which soon placed
him in the possession of a numerous
clientage and lucrative practice in
the counties of Orleans and Called onia.
In 1860 he became associated in law
business with George Tucker, and
the copartnership continued until the
breaking out of the war of the Re-
bellion, when Mr.. Tucker enlisted and
went to the field as captain of Com
pany D., 4th Regiment of Vermont
Volunteers. He had the keen per-
ceptive faculties which enabled him
quickly to appreciate and seize upon
the initial and vital point in issue.
He was ever urgent and persistent
in the prese NATION and enforcement
of his side of the litigated cause,
presentation composed of the suGUitur
in nlodO and the Ortitur IN re. This
made him an antagonist upon whom
those associated with him could rely,
and those opposed could. expect no
other favor than that the contest
should be open and fair.
He was eminently am ong those who
when they attacked, attacked, always
in front, and in broad daylight. He
was true to the interests of his
clients, and his loyalty to every cause
in which he enlisted and his fidelity
in every warfare in which he took up
arms was unquestionable and unsus-
ceptible to adverse criticism. He
fought a waning cause with all the
courage and pertinacity of the leader
of lost hope until an adverse de-
cision Uf the court of final resort
closed the discussion and compelled
an unconditional surrender. His
chief eminence as lawyer lay in a
mastery arrangement and presenta-
ton of facts to jury. His quickness
of apprehension and the untiring
application of all his energies to the
enlisted cause gave him a complete
mastery of all his materials, and in
this field of practice he was a dan
gerous adversary. In the trial of a
cause he threw into it all his varied
elements of warfare, a we'll grounded
and developed knowledge of the
alliance of law to fact, a conscious
ness of duty performed, a keen
analytical logic, sire nuous argument
and effective appeal.
Concluding a service of four years
as prosecuting attorney of the county,
he became engaged in the trial of
criminal causes in behalf of respond
ents, and easily arose to the position
of leading criminal lawyer. In this
line of practice it may be confessed,
perhaps, that he worked the doctrine
of reasonable doubt to the extreme
verge aud to its fullest extent, and
vehemently asserted that an unterri-
fed Jury was the sole Judge of the
law, which assertion made upon one
occasion resulted in a heated and
acrimonious debate between court
and counsel at the hotel dining table.
The most noted of these cases were
those of Turner and Hayden, indicted
for murder, and Moore for forgery,
the trials of Turner and Moore re-
sulting in disagreement of the jury,
Turner being discharged upon NolIe
Prosequi, and Moore released upon
his own recognizauce.
In 1881 he became associated with
W. w Miles in partnership in the
law attended by an extended and
successful practice in the county and
supreme courts, which terminated in
1888, at which period his career as
LAWYER became a closed chapter, and
up to this period of his life's history
his career as a lawyer had been
marked by a steady accumulative
growth-step by step, and each sue
Gee ding step a progress, and it is no
more than the merest justice to say
that had he devoted himself solely to
the practice of the law, and had con-
J eentrated all bis energies to the pro-
!, Session, he would have by the law of
natural growth and expansion ad-