The Prairie Chieftain, Volume 1, Number 12, Monticello, White County, 10 December 1850 — Page 1

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C -KXIKT .OT.ot . 1. 1 U . Ft, M UN HEIST. ... J;. Id Van P, r r .. ftj i, 3a i;;ree awn,.!, li t x r s AH p tftev r i t - . 3 tO A 1 - . , ' a , i a " -" t,l I e ft!n4 ifsn oi f r t ci . ,- ri- Jl r, -1 f e - ore.l a. r.cw r. -;e teeit. on "i, c e t J-r, it new (UCe, j, if.- ittnU ti'i..-..:-!,.;!:! on ihe eery for e specif e tin ji f rl i tti is, ml'l 'frantinued, oirt.il ordered 1 irir"-'1" ,;. a.i";,f "' f.f rdinrty V . - yent.jf tavern wUl I w-nBuca to r r .ft hy:...-t. ai , ,d,.aientsmust be accompanies! If tJie TilE VOLUNTEER COUNSEL. A TAI3 E:Y JO EX TAYLOH. We ccgy ike Llleulig f.cm the New Y'oi . C. -lay Times. The select, John Tajlar, w J ilcens.d, when u udi ot tr.enty-cr.a, tarr&uLe at the bar' of litis cly. II a v -3 per but well educated, tl rc:;cased citiacrdinary genius. TLagi .;.'3 cf his person, combined with i.i r:c;Ity ct Lis L.Iic, e;.r. M'J Li.l tj -Ria t'.'i Larlof a isshicLElb luu.-ly. TwtK-3 i.v:.r.l!-s i.f.irw&rJs tlie ! tr.yeJ Ly ..es-l.hy f.nn cT . ci y to c,"3 ca a 1 mission as lander t o C 3 V'cit. Asa heavy sdary c..".icl, Ttl:r bale farewell to his - j ci i-ijj. ila wrota tack evtry l-t rc-:iv-c l cot a line ia &nt :r. Cx t..: .'..J tkcl, v,h:n the !.-;.b.l rtctivl a L.l:r f.cr.i his cri!:yc:s trj Idu.il e'l.' z-crily &f;er hi j d:r-.urj f.r t!.3 Wet, 1..3 if3 End ) .r I " :n. :y 1 - -' -U:'.i. There: ii 21 " -I aivi:oty r,ii ECt cf the Legislature, married egain f.r. V.", 13, tr.l to ccr-; lst3 ths climax ol c ; ..;!:y i.r.I v szzg, hid the name of Tayl:r3 E.-ach"3l to Harks that cf her e .1 i;.u'i:::znz jitrtner! This periiJy r.:i:ly drcvo Ttylor insane. ' Ilis cal,;r, f. c.i ti.it period, lecame eccentric ia ths l':t decree, sometimes he preach t 2, ,.:tn:ss ha plead at the bar; urutil 1 1 IieIj a fsver carried him oit at a com - ---"yzj ezily c.38. JCi. Bulletin. i:l c -s!y h tho C .h c," IL 1 j, t3 c:t-h'--.2i.-i Li icxr.3,vus :;..d..l 15 ovcix .1: j. Cave ia the ,r-t- - 3 ; t'.;ru 1 ai t.3ver been v-it-Z':".-'- a C:;'--I!- 3 n i'" Ilivcr v, v'.l3 t'..3 t;orz ihehr- f ..rent t 1 - . -y llihcd fc.ee i.,rouuGUt tho cst " , L.'.-i-c 1 r veil czzz.m. 1 f A c ; '. . 1: 3 L r:;'.ly 3 c f I; '.'.a . HI t - '.' ;icr.t- ( 1:' 1 l'.3 r Wt. :. ,:.t t 3 t'-:3 cf 1ZZ3, C ; ; 2 II, :pV :, cr 3 c f t' v: ..' '...t r !..'.; ? f ..i i - ; if : . -1 1 j cf Ki Tc.i', c . . i s ; : - - j i it '-3 1 1. ry L'i' i' j 3 c j t - i lc: .' " .1 cf h3 . " i . i . " r. T"..i ! .. h . d ... 1. . 1 i 1 fr 1. i t-.. "... -ic-j -n . . .. ? . 8 v . , 4 $ . " ' , . . ii . . . . a i 1 ..iu j....- .1 a i . , I . It", i i 1 I i 1 is C.-.1 d, J i . ..1, -..I t:lIJ 3 ."1 cf ; . ' t i i t. I j t 1

i . t Cf d. ..'i C t"i-""-t (i" h...3 diilrr s.lt vas set Lr th- C r-.I tl.3t'.rcr:-cf r; -'is grwri r.umh .is r s v. ell ts c:;c. :i i.t; f.l m'. .ti..;.y s -.1 thcuirci.tof pahllc! tcrdi.-. .. t i.a-,; 1 d 'cr'.c liy f. r llct hi.. 5. liis ;y :1 ;r.orrd ' c'.t t:d 'i!1: : s,:K:n.d i.::-t ehlcici.'.ly h' r :v cifJav'vccafcs. I::-c c J, so triu j h-t.-.t h bcui li,? &l;cc:s3 cf tl.3 -:eLu3 d; , t! t v. ; .a i' 2 sl-ndcr crs 3 w cs c Jdc J, ; 1 .-tv r'il-tc.i :3 LI v. L..c--t ,:i tt-iorney--they had tli 'withdrawn. Ths pipy-pettiibjgers dsre net. brave egaia the sharp wit of Pike and tha scathing thunder of Prentiss. "Have you no ccurssI?" inquired Jude Mills, looking kindly at the plain tldl " No, sir; they have all deserted me, end I'lim too poor to employ any mere," replied the beautiful Mary, bursting into

tears. " "In suck a case, will not some chivalrous member cf.ths profession volunteer" asked the judge, glancing around the bar. The thirty lawyers were silent as death. Judge Mills repealed the -question. I will, your Honor," said a voice from the thickest part of-the crowd situated behind the bar. At the tones of that voice many started half-way from their seats, and perhaps there was not a heart in the immense throng which did not beat something quicker it 'wes so unearthly sweet, clear, ringing, and mournful. The f.rst sensation, however, was changed into general laughter, when a tall, gaunt, spectral figure, that nobody remembered to have ever seen before, elbowed his way through the crowd, and placed himself within tho bar. His appearance was a problem to puzzle the sphinx herself. His high, pale brow, and small, nervously-twitching face seemed alive with tao concentrated essence and cream cf genius; but then his infantine blue eyes, hardly visible beneath their massive areh.:s, looked dim, dreamy, almost unecuscious; and his clothing was so exceedingly shabby that the court hes iuO'i t let the cause proceed under his i.;,v.,o. ; r.r.'::A. "Has c -.u" ram e been cmtcJ en the rolls of the Ctata?" demanded tha jaige suspiciously. itis i...nat-.r;d about my nemo's tsi::gcn yeurrid;,' ar.su :rcd t'..3 st:: -g:v, his thin, tljf-lk-3 l'j-3 carlmg up into a ilendhh si.ecr. "I may ha allowed to t-r car ouc3, ly 'd.3 cci.tcsy cf tha c:..;t zll r. Ihre is Jay liters 3 h-:m tic it triLuaal L A:.;:iica!" I: hv.d:d J.:3 :i;;i3 abroad Tha tid i.uaiedi:.'.: .y c r. t en. Ia the t. ...: ef , 1:.;:. . 3 t'.2 z? cur.c: I but ih'dr. i..r.ulty, rs vas ccv......dy tlv 0;' t. Ila- cur.rrd t::y cna t3 t 11 hs c.n c.-vy i.'..ct i:,t-rru; tlci, th-- Ji h3 c..: iv ; 1 to t.i" ..0 c. :.i c-3 ti a on. r t ti 1 . 3. lie 1 ,.t v. 1. 1h . i.h L:.;i vi;. . to c .! .:t ml.id.ci f.,1 1 iict 1( which, in 1 ' ' ty . 3 t. .. 1 t : f.. . Vi l" u b . ! g r 1 1 j r i e . .11 t h j bed a 1; ;.t t3 3 c , . 3 t t . 2 : '. r th? 1 1 !- .11 ; -; t" , e' . I . i f t 1 i". ; 2 - J C c 3 1 A ami 13

wll'i a final burst of cralory th-t 1 r-u ;' t l! 3 Louse down in cheers, ia v.h'cl: th sv.crn jarj'- themselves jelae t1, rotv 1thstandicg the stern 'crdcr!" oft! . I . 11. Thus wonderfully suscej t !h cr" . ELutVwest:rn peopb to the clrn..T cf impassioned eloquence. ' It was then the strangers tarn. He had remained apparently abstracted dutir g all tha previous speeches. Still, and stra'ght, and motionless ia Lis his l -la tiXiooui forehead shooting up high like a mountain-cons cf snow; but for that eternal twitch that came and "eat it perpetually in his sallow cheeks, you would have taken him for a mere man of marble or a human form carved in ice. Even his dim, dreamy eyes were invisible beneath those grey, shaggy eyebrows. But now at last he rises before the bar railing, not behind it- and so near ths wondering jury that he mighthave touched the foreman with his long and bony fioger. With eyes still half shut, and standing rigid as a pillar of iron, his thin lips curi as if ia measureless scorn, slightly part and the voice come', forth. At

first, it is low and sweet, insinuating itself through the brain as an artless tune, winding its way into the deepest heart like the melody of a magic incantation: while the speaker proceeds, without a gesture or the least sign of racifemeat, to tear in pieces the argument of Ashley, which melted aw-y ?t his touch as frcs before the suubc am. ; "very one looked smpvised. His ,-..-y. vr.s vA cues' sbriel end so lummouIv cl nr. th.i't tha rudest peasant could comprehend it without ef fort. Anon, he came to the dazzling wit of the poet lawyer, Ihke. Then tho curl of his lip grew sharper, 'his sallow lace kindled up; -and his eyes began to open, dim and dreamy no longer, but vivid es lightning, red as fiery globes, arid glaring like twin meteors. The whole soul was in the eye the full heart streamed cut cn the face. In five minutes Pike's wit seemed the foam of folly, and his finest satire horrible profanity, when contrasted with the inimitabla sallie3 and exterminating sarcasms cf the stranger, interspersed with jest and anecdote that filled tha forum with roars of laughter. Then, without eo much us bcetowmg cn tlluaicn cn Promts, ho turned short cn the 1 crjurcd witt.rssis of Ilcjhlr;, tore tV.r tctti act1. h.t ) f . : and Lt tried in t".!r f. ccs ruch Uui'.Ij L.vc ctucr, that all ire: ' !"d r.j with a.t i guc, andUvo cf 1! em reUr.'iy .ltd Ji me cd ho..- the court-house. TI.3 exciu u::. t r f 1 3 crj'Vvl ; j 1 coming tremendous. Their united life end seal trpeareu t harg on i1i3 lu::;-i:.r..-i C' 2 ttraii ; r. IL i; i- 1 themwhh t!m pnw cr3 of his ov.n pa-len s. II 3 Fa.mu'.td thui.i i t'.3 pchou cf 1 !-i cv,n 1 ..llcious f. -Ihys. lie ce .:u t3 ! avo c'wlcn nature's Lrg-hldden sreict cf a'mcelien. II3 ' as t'.- can f th :, .1 cf alith.- t cu.d t'.:-.;. ii, v.hi'h r j a .d Lll aad I icd in L.llcv e, t 3 ho -. lk.t 1 is --:at '-t tile v"; h j : t c" it . IllS j!i3 ki l... v-.jl t- 4':Hu"i li f.1 i L l" U iwt: e? .i1-an Ifrj 1 .s. -, l ; i "s 1 n, t r f g -t tLv.ly 1. u.ii 1 tt e r ia ci. '.1 u. La L i.urrd the " i:: arc 1 v. i.'.i a ctr

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. o 4. . ,J-. that tha an sremad d.,il: at uco;i-day wh::i sh'.niv-g ca such an accursed monster; and then ha fixed both psr;. - hi cn tha ehiiakmg brew cf I:cpkins, and ha nailed them there forever. The agitation cf the audience nearly amounted to madness. All at once the speaker descended from his perilous height. His voice wailed out for the murdered dead, and described the sorrows cf the widowed living the beautiful Mary, more beautiful every mo ment, as her tears flowed faster till men wept, and lovely women sobbed like children. lh closed by a ttranga exhortation to the jury and thrcugh them to the by standers. He entreated the pas el, after they should bring in their verdict for the plaintiiT, not to offer violence to the defendant, however richly he might deserva it, in ether words, "not to lynch tho villain, Hopkins, but leave his punishment to Gdd." This was the most art ' d trick of all and the best calculated to insure vengeance. The jury returned a verdict for- f.dy thousand dollars, and the night afterward, Hopkins was taken out cf Lna bed by lynchers, and beaten almost to death. As the cot:::, adjourned, the stranger made known Ida name and called ths attention of thd people 'with the announcement "John Taylor will preach litre this evening at early candle-light.' T'h! crowd, cf course, all turned cut, and Ip.ylor's sermon equalled, if it did not surpass, the splendor of his forensic effort. This is no exaggeration. 1 have listened ia Clay, Webster, and Calhoun to Dewey, Tyng, and Basccra, but 'have never heard anything in tha form of sublime Words even remotely approximating the eloquence cf Jaho Taylor massive as a mountain, and wild, rushing as a cataract of fire. And this is the opinion of all who ever heard the marvelous man. Lrek a-hca, Cam,' said a Wcitrrn negro to a f :5d .::d cv:r the f.! o-1; 'L h a-hca, d'ye see dat tli tree denn durP Yl'. , Jim, I de : J.' 'Wall, I g;t up dat trt e n'J.t a.'.ra t mcn'ov:.' V h-ijru do iu d..t t:c ;:'..:P 'I -s crt.r a c. Y. 1 c '.oh hh.i, Ji iP V.V.t t 1 I t-'.l dj f , L"a: ' 3. 7f ll, te 'd.' 'I ch. "-d de cotm cut tide hid dcr crd 1 h t ! r ,,,:stk ,h, r;..-ld'.;i I h, .rtmh.' dr?p. Wl at cu guess 'tnas, DamP c .1, c'j curs:.' 2T, y.vj don't; t a 3 dis l,-;jt!.g: !.h j n 1 r.ho he r.. vu 11. hd 't . tl.rt' .u Tits. I'Amr, r Tf O2 c r Ll.r.0.1 :c . Yes 1 did g to the 11.1 . I Ian L -mr.rer.1, 3 c s I did r :: 1 I de.."t Leer if i:.:.:i I l.lhers d-.j I zr if it. Pd r:: .. 1 . II . 1 1 :. " 1 j ih.acd . ucf D ; i 1 .';' .1 it-; ; i a - ..... j i : t : 1 . ;' ..h ; " " M I r. Pu: tf ' - r 1 t' ,i . . 1 1:

Ar eery c. 3 ii d. i; . e. i :.r. , thj fl 3 cf t. '? bid, . ; c . - t! a fcl L ah. :a .'. Z, . . i. L. L Ci , .MijCi-., ri I. e.e.hro cr :f.crto I . r; d lj the C.rcmt m, j: cf t..e U. Lh -i.ii . - : -...r cf duidee cf the Peace, are a burls'-1 and required to exercha and u.scharga all th? powers rnd du:;-s ceufviiel by this act.' t ' - " '- Rrc. 2. Sapcricr court of organized territories have power to appoint such Commissioners. Sec. 3. Circuit courti cf the U, S. from tima ta t.ir.a to enlarge the number of Commissioners, with a view to eilbrd reasonable facilities to reclaim fugitives from ' labor. Ceo. 4. Commissioners to have con, current jurisdiction with Judges cf U. Sh Court, to g-aat certilieitea to claimants h authority la take and remove fagi; tl-, a to the h ' vor torrtitcry whence they iled. Ezc. 5. Marshals ana their depnies to obey and execute warrants cr pre-" i3 from Ccrnmissicr.er3 Marshals ref ; 'ng to act to be fined one thousand dehats, and if a fbglttva escapei from their cut tody whet'-? with Or without their assent, they are li-l'.D for the full value of ths slave. Commissioners may cr point executive odlcera in each county, to eervc all wsrrants, with power to summon tnd call to their aid the hy-at&ndcrs or posee cc;;iilal'u$t and all good citizen c.ts commanded to aid and assist Ja tha execution of tho law, -" Cue. G. On the ttf cf a slave, the owner cr hli attem-y r y pursue and n-

ctaim himty procurir. ; a warrant from tho Cornrniision:r$ or Judges, cr he may ar;v:.J lis a fugitive t whhout any process and take him before such Judga or Com mUiicaers c? Judges, who shall hear ttnu determine the case 'ira eumary manner' and cn proof by deposition rr tGdavit of the fact cf ownership, the owner receives a certificate, authorising hurt to remove such slave back to the Ctata vrheace ha escaped' The tesilmetiy cf th fugitive is net to be admitted ia evidence, but tha certificate mentioned is to be conclusive against him, and is to prevent all mcdcstct'.c.-i by any process icsucd ly any court, jadge, m.cgh.rc'a, cr ta.rr peson wlmmsoevcr. f'.o. 7. Pernor. ndirg in tle re;; :, cr cc..cc:h,'g a slave, era I.-.llo ta a La5 cfcue iLurd tlv ll ar j and i.r-ihcn-r.-.cnt for t!v. t.,c d s, a'.o i t.i a.. . n f.r d..: trg: ; ta t' i 1 .ant cf cr.a t' . . . d dollars. Pee. c cf CL'rlt, f.'.rcluff, vr- c. C .. ?ri. Ln-;3ta r;: . , 3 tc dJP:j f.r r ;;h ucc'. : i 5 .3 n favrf tfl t! 0 cl:.' -r.tr i, enl Zvs c ... :i cr.ly wh.n tr.ada in .b,cr cf th t: ta la e'd by claimant. 0. cv. f 1 cf c : . . t '.' .1 ! f.:.:...l cf a t'.c c ",:.r . . j f : f. - '.i.. i- au. .: 1. . Itocra5 '. . . . i. c .y ; ...:y 1 3 t ry tj cz:y 'a ti-, . ta th :a 1.3 f..d, c'i c: ;" :. J t I :;-id cf f.3 l'.-;t. d ' . 1 Y. . ry. 10. Ca t' ' , - thr:, f r ' ; ! u 0 v . ; c . f f c f 1 ...liit 3 f t h: : t c f V

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