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those of my own country pointed at me, as they passed by, and said, Logan is the friend of white men. I had ever thought to live with you, but for the injuries of one inan. Colonel Cressap, the last spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, cut off all the relations of Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any human creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour the thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear· He will not turn his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one."

This pathetic and affecting speech touched the sensibility of all who heard him. The General Assembly applauded his noble sentiments, and immediately set him at liberty. Every house in Virginia vied with each other which should entertain him the best, or shew him the most respect; and he returned to his native country, loaded with presents and honours.

TECUMSEH.

The Indian warrior Tecumseh, who fell in the late American war, was not only an accomplished military commander, but also a great natural statesinan and orator. Among the many strange and some strongly characteristic events in his life, the council which the American General Harrison held with the Indians at Vincennes in 1811, affords an admirable instance of the sublimity which sometimes distinguished his

eloquence. The chiefs of some tribes had come to complain of a purchase of lands which had been made from the Kickafoos. This council effected nothing, but broke up in confusion, in consequence of Tecumseh having called General Harrison “ a liar.” It was in the progress of the long talks that took place in the conference, that Tecumseh having finished one of his speeches, looked round, and seeing every one seated, while no seat was prepared for him, a momentary frown passed over his countenance. Instantly, General Harrison ordered that a chair should be given him. Some person presented one, and bowing, said to him, "Warrior, your father, General Harrison, offers you a seat." Tecumseh's dark eye flashed. 66 'My father!” he exclaimed, indignantly, extending his arm towards the heavens; "the sun

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is my father, and the earth is my mother; she gives me nourishment, and I repose upon her bosom." he ended, he sat down suddenly on the ground.

LORD LOUGHBOROUGH.

Lord Chancellor Loughborough stands foremost among the few eloquent lawyers who have been eloquent speakers in parliament; and it is not a little singular, that his rise in life should have been owing to the bitterness of a sarcasm which he pronounced on the very quality in which he so much excelled. He was brought up not to the English, but to the Scottish bar; and not long after commencing practice, happened to be opposed in a case to Mr. ****, at that time one of the brightest luminaries of which the Scottish bar could boast. Mr. **** had made a

very impassioned appeal to the judge; and in replying to it, Mr. Wedderburn (Lord L.) summed up a most ironical picture of Mr. ****'s powers of eloquence, in these words. "Nay, my lords, if tears could have moved your lordships, tears sure I am would not have been wanting." The lord president immediately interrupted Mr. W. and told him that he was pursuing a very indecorous course of observation. Mr. W. spiritedly maintained that he had said nothing but what he was well entitled to say, and would have no hesitation in saying again. The lord president, irritated probably at so bold an answer from so young a man, rejoined in a manner, the personality of which provoked Mr. W. to tell his lordship, that "he had said that as a judge, which he durst not justify as a gentleman." An observation such as this, which put an end to all observation, was not of course to be brooked; the lord president threw himself on the judgment and protection of his brother judges; and the result was, that Mr. W. was unanimously ordered to make a most abject and ample apology, under pain of deprivation. Mr. W. declared indignantly that " he would never make an apology for what his conscience told him was no offence;" and with these words throwing off his gown, he cast it on the ground; and rubbing the dust from off his feet upon it, bade the court and his brethren at the bar farewell. tune, it would seem, was in one of her tricky moods. Exiled by mere accident from that native scene of action on which all his hopes of success had been originally set, and where he could never have attained to more than a provincial eminence, Mr. W. bent his steps towards England; he devoted himself to the

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study of its laws; and in no long time became the first law officer in England, and the right arm of as able a minister as ever wielded the destinies of Britain.

EFFECT.

Mr. Lee, the barrister, was famous for studying effect when he pleaded. On the circuit at Norwich, a brief was brought to him by the relatives of a woman who had been deceived into a breach of promise of marriage. Lee inquired, among other particulars, whether the woman was handsome? "A most beautiful face," was the answer. Satisfied with this, he desired she should be placed at the bar, immediately in front of the jury. When he rose, he began a most pathetic and eloquent address, directing the attention of the jury to the charms which were placed in their view, and painting in glowing colours the guilt of the wretch who could injure so much beauty. When he perceived their feelings worked up to a proper pitch, he sat down, under the perfect conviction that he should obtain a verdict. What then must have been his surprise, when the counsel retained by the opposite party rose and observed, that it was impossible not to assent to the encomiums which his learned friend had lavished on the face of the plaintiff; but he had forgot to say, that she had a wooden leg!" This fact, of which Lee was by no means aware, was established to his utter confusion. His eloquence was thrown away; and the jury, who felt ashamed of the effects it had produced upon them, instantly gave a verdict against him.

PHYSIOGNOMY.

A witness was one day called to the bar of the House of Commons, when some one took notice, and pointedly remarked, upon his ill looks. Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland), whose gloomy countenance strongly marked his character, observed, "That it was unjust, ungenerous, and unmanly, to censure a man for that signature which God had impressed upon his countenance, and which therefore he could not by any means remedy or avoid." Mr. Pitt rose hastily and said, "I agree from my heart with the observation of my fellow member; it is forcible, it is judicious and true. But there are some (throwing his eyes full on Fox) upon whose face the hand of heaven has so stamped the mark of wickedness, that it were IMPIETY not to give it credit."

EDWARD IV.

On this prince's declaration of war against Louis XI. of France, he addressed his parliament in an able speech, which concluded with the following impressive words:

"But I detain you too long by my speech from action. I see the clouds of dire revenge gathered in your hearts, and the lightning of fury break from your eyes, which bodes thunder against our enemy; let us therefore lose no time, but suddenly and severely scourge this perjured court to a severe repentance, and regain honour to our nation, and his kingdom to our crown."

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