The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-18

cognized body, and reference 70 our
volumes Of reports shows that ne ap-
peared in almost every case Of i'm
portance heard by the court in Raj
elgh. His principal opponent at the
Raleigh a proper was VIM. H. Hay-
wood, Jr, the father OF Col Ed
Graham Haywood. who died OF can
Ger about 1852. He was probably a
more successful advocate, hut hardly
as profound a lawyer as his son srter-
wards proved to be. A younger com
petltor at the bar was Perrin RuShee
the father Of Chas NJ. and f. H Bur
pee a young man Of decided ability.
he was Tor some years the Reporter
OF the Supreme Court. He was YER
popular, and being a member of the
democratic party, which was then
coming into control OF the State.
many thought he would ultimately
become Governor. He died in 1853.
when he had hardly reached middle
age
Patrick H. Winston, Sr., was near
Mr.. Badgers age and a firm friend of
his. Though a kinsman OF the great
orator, Patrick Henry, he was far
from being an orator himself, but he
was SO fond of the law and such a stu
lent that Mr.. Badger frequently as
ISOLATED him with himself in his cases,
saying that he found Winston a
walking encyclopedia of the law"
He vas Reporter Of the Supreme
Court at the time of his death in 1866,
when he was succeeded by Mr.. S. f.
Phillips.
John H. Bryan removed from New
Bern where he was born and practiced
law for several years, to Raleigh
about the year 1870. He had been
so popular in his county and district
that some how he was elected Sena-
tor from Craven and a member OF
the United States Congress at the
same time. He elected to serve IN
Congress, which he did for one term.
He seems not to ave sought practice
before the Superior aad County courts
in Wake, but devoted most of his at
tentlon to the Supreme Court. Our
reports show, for several years before
the war, that he enjoyed a large prac-
tice in that court. That it was lucra-
tive would appear from the fact that
he raised n educated, at our best
schools and at the University, eight
sons, and at the best female schools
six daughters. Of his sons, one VIM.
s. Bryan, became Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court Of Maryland. and an
other, Henry r. Bryan, long served as
Superior Court Judge in this State.
George Washington Haywood. youn-
ger by some years than the others
mentioned, passed middle age in 1853,
was an example of what can be done
by a lawyer not naturally brilliant and
with some disadvantages, by constant
and faithful attention to the business
of his clients. He was very near
sighted and his hearing was not good;
but he could always be found in his
office in working hours, when not IN
court, and also at night. He was a
bachelor and lived and practiced his
profession in a small wooden build
ing which stood at the eastern end Of
the old Marlborough House, about
where OfaV'c harhar ShOn iS now to be
found. and then he accumulated a
nice little estate.
Henry w. Miller, a Virginian by
birth, out educated at u State Uni
versity settled in Raleigh and married
a daughter of Mr.. ThoS- p. DevereuX
When a young man. That he had
ambition to rise in the profession OF
law, which he had chosen before he
left the University, appear from a
letter written to him by Wm. Writ,
once Attorney-General of the United
States, and the first orator in Virginia
of his day. That letter, which was
in reply to one from Mr.. Miller, is
to be found in Kennedy's life of Writ,
and is recommended to young men
who. like Mr.. Miller, desire to rise in
their profession. Mr.. Miller sought
Mr.. Wirt's advice as to his future con-
duct as a lawyer, because he himself
had risen to the top of his profession.
! Mr.. Badgers rule was, and expressed
to be, to address the judgment and
not the emotions of a jury. Mr.. Mil
Ter, who was a born orator, addressed
himself both to the emotions and the
Judgment of the courts and juries.
He was, in my opinion, the most elo-
quent lawyer | ever heard address a
jury. I can never forget his impas-
stoned elOquence and triumphant vic
tory i'll the trial of a handsome Wo-
man, whose case on account OF local
I nrajI1Hjpa had hppn removed from
Johnston to Wake county in the fall
of 1858. The case attracted great in
t~erests, and / distinctly remember that
the smiling co~untenance of j. P. Il.
Russ, foreman Of the jury, as he came
from the jury roo announced the
result as clearly as the words Not
guilty. when pronounced a few minutes
afterwards. With dark hazel eyes,
brilliant when he was under excite
ment. and a clear ringing voice,
whether on the hustings or in the court
house. Mr.. Miller riveted attention
from the beginning to the end of his
speeches.. About 1860, he delivered
here and at other places in the State.
and in Richmond, Va. an address on
the 18th Century. which was much
admired by all who heard it, and
some of his enthusiastic admirers in
sisted that, both in diction and IRA
tory, it was quite equal, if not super
ior, to hat of Hon. Edward Everett
on Washington, which was delivered
with great eclat in many parts Of the
United States. He never sought popu-
1arity, and consequently attain
ed any high public station TO which
his talents richly entitled him.
Bartholomew T. Moore, before his
death in November, 1878, was fire.
quently spoken of as the father of the
bar in this State. Born in 1901, he
was 81 years old at the enc of the
war. His public services were as mem
Der of the Legislature from his native
county, Halifax, for several terms, as
Acknowledgement, and as the working
member of the commission which pre-
pared the Revised Code of 1854. He
was gifted with but little imagination
was never an elocutionist, but he
was a genius of common sense and
and labor. A most diligent student of
his profession and paying careful atten-
ton to every detail of business en-
trusted to him, he became a profound
LAWYER and commanded a large
practice in the counties in which he
practiced, and in the Supreme and
Federal courts. His State reputation
wa made by an argument he submit
ted to the Supreme Court in the ia