Connecticut western news., 1922-06-22

crat."
 But look at the New England type of Whig exemplified by the imperious and majestic Webster" said Douglas.
 "Webster was another poor lad" Lincoln answered, His fathers home was a log cabin in a lonely land until about the time Daniel was born, when the family moved to a small frame house. His is the majesty of great intellect"
 There was much talk of this sort until MT. Lincoln excused himself to walk home with his two friends who had just returned from the North, be- ing eager to learn of Samson's visit. The latter gave him a full account of 1t and asked him to undertake the col lection of Brimsteads note.
 "Tll get after that fellow right away" said Lincoln. "I'm glad to get a chance at one of those men who have been skinning the farmers"
 They sat down by the f1reside in Samson's house.
 "Joe has decided that he wants to be a lawyer" said Samson.
 "Well, Joe, we'll all do what we can to keep you from being a shotgun lawyer" Abe Lincoln began. "Pve got a good first lesson for you. I found 1t in a letter which Rufus Choate had written to Judge Davis In it he says that we rightly have great respect for the decisions of the majority, but that the law Is something vastly greater and more sacred than the verdict of any majority. The law he says, comes down to us one mighty and continuous stream of wisdom and ex- perience accumulated, ancestral, widening and deepening and washing itself clearer as 1t runs on, the agent of civilization, the builder of thou sand cities. To have lived through ages of unceasing trial with the pas sions, interests and affairs of men, to have lived through the drums and tramplings of conquest, through revo- lution and reform and all the changing cycles of opinion, to have attended the progress of the race and gathered unto itself the appreciation of civil ized humanity Is to have proved that 1t carries in 1t some spark of immor- tai life.'"
 The face of Lincoln changed as he recited the lines of the learned and distinguished lawyer of Massachu- chusetts.
 His face glowed like lighted lan- tern when he began to say those elo- quent words," Samson writes in his diary. He wrote them down so that Josiah could commit them to memory"
 "That is a wonderful statement" Samson remarked.
 Abe answered: Tt suggests to me that the voice of the people in any one generation may or may not be in- spired, but that the voice of the best men of all ages, expressing their sense of justice and of right, in the law, is and must be the voice of God. The spirit and body of it's decrees are as indestructible as the throne of Heaven. You can overthrow them but until their power is re-established, as surely it will be, you will live in savagery."
 You do not deny the right of revo- lution."
 "No, but I can see 10 excuse for it in America. It has remained for us to add to the body of the law the idea that men are created free and equal The lack of the saving principle in the codes of the world has been the great cause of injustice and oppression"
 Honest Abe rose and walked up and down the room in silence for a mo- ment. Then he added:
 "Choate phrased 1t well when he said: We should beware of awaking the tremendous divinities of change from their long sleep. Let us think of that when we consider what we shall do with the evils that afflict us.'"
 The boy Joe had been deeply in- terested in this talk.
 If you'll lend me a book, I'd like to begin studying" he said.
 "Theres time enough for that" said Lincoln. First, want you to under stand what the law Is and what the lawyer should be. You wouldn't want to be a pettifogger. Choate is the right model. He has a dignity suited to the greatness of his chosen master. They say that DeIOre JuSClce or the peace, in a room no bigger than a shoemakers shop, his work Is done with the same dignity and care that he would show in the supreme court of Massachusetts. A newspaper says that in a dog case at Beverly he treated the dog as If he were a lion and the grabbed old squire with the consideration due a chief justice"
 "He knows how to handle the Eng fish language" Samson observed.
 He got that by reading. He is the best read man at the American bar and the best Bible student There's a lot of work ahead of you, Joe, before you are a lawyer, and when you're admitted success comes only of the capacity for work. Brougham wrote the peroration of his speech in de- fense of Queen Caroline nineteen times"
 "I want to be a great orator." the