New-York tribune., 1906-04-01
LINCoLNs FAIRNESS.

Lincoln not only spoke & language which
Jurors could understand, but he also took them
INTO his confidence and made them feel. as one
=. ms contemporaries says, that he and they
were trying the case together He was like
wise continually the friend OF the court who
lHoushl would oe only fair" TO let in this,
or only right that that should be conceded"
and VINO 'reckoned he must be wrong when the
court oFerrUled him, but who nevertheless took
qllei and tactful exception whenever the occa-
sion required IL.
Now about the time he had practised through
three-QuaTteTs Of the case IN this way" observes
Leonard swett his adversary would wake up
70 md himself beaten. He Was as wise
serpent In the trial Of a case, and what he
candy gave away was only what ne couldn't
OF course these comments were merely IN
tended TO emphasize the fact that Lincoln did
not try both sides Of hts cases as some 81 his
eulogists would have believe; but unfortu-
nately they have been distorted into an inlpli-
cation that he INDUCED IN tricks q the trade
ana that his apparent fairness nothing bet
yer than device by which he lured the unwary
20 destruction
Mr. Z. IL Prince, who is now living in Bloom
1ngton. IL, and who heard Lincoln try over a
hundred cases OF al sorts, is competent au-
thoIly on any question OF this kind, and his
testimony is direct and convincing. THE truth
IS" Mr.. Prince remarked while talking with the
writer. that Mr.. Lincoln had genius for see
ing the real point IN case at once and aiming
steadily al Il from the beginning OF q trial to the
end. The issue IN most cases lies in very narrow
compass, and the really great lawyer disregards
everything not directly tending 20 that Issue
The mediocre advocate Is apt to miss the crucial
minor matters, and when mis- eyes are opened he
ts usually angry and always surprised. Mr.
Lincoln instilctively saw the kernel of every
case at the outset, never lost sight OF II, and
never let II escape the jury. That was the only
trick ! ever saw him play.-Frederick Trevor
Hill, IN The Century Magazine.
CoOPER's INDIANS ARE REAL INDIANS
Cooper does not. 70 be sure take quite the
cowboy view or the Indian. and people with q
boy an expert In Indians and echo his opin-
ion that the only good Indian is a dead one"
may md him unduly discriminating Still. the
cowboys chronological experience is, after all,
limited, and the frontieFsman Of recent years
has hao TO deal not with the Indian OF the
time OF CoopeT's tales, but with his descendants
demOralized by contact with his censOrs, 10 say
nothing OF the century Of dishonor." Cooper's
view Is certainly that the Indian is human. But
the fact which is so generally lost sight Of is
that the noble red man"-the fictitious charac-
be found n his pages In general he endows
the Indian with traits which would be approved
as authentic even by the ranchman the rustler.
or the army officer. His Indians are in the main
epitomized in Magua. And In the mass the race
Is depicted pretty much Hawkeye conceived
the Mingoes OF the Mohawk Valley and Leather
stocking The Sioux OF the praiTies-"vaTmints"
one and ali. The exceptions are few. There are
the Delawares. Chingachgook ana Uncas, CO.
nanchet and the Pawnes Hardheart-haroly any
others OF importance. And the goodness" of
these IS always carefully characterized as sui
generis The difference between their moral
out &ad thoEs Of the white NAN II always made