Part 38 (2/2)

A Bar ersoll would be worth while if it could only be described as it actually occurred

At the opening of the Decerace 'fifty-nine, John Clark, Esq, announced that aof the Bar would be held at the courthouse at ”early candle-lighting” on that very evening, for the purpose of forovern the tern,” being proanization was duly effected by the election of Colonel Shope, an able and dignified barrister of the old school, as President As undisputed spokesman of the occasion, Mr Clark, at once moved the appointment of a committee of five to prepare the afore, _nee, the ersoll, Shaing, and the chronicler of these important events as his coadjutors Upon the retirement of the committee, the rules already prepared by Clark were read and proentle --then in patient waiting

As the recognized parliamentarian of the occasion--with the proposed rules in safe keeping--was in the van, upon the return to the court-rooersoll quietly proposed to his three untitled associates that, after the adoption of the resolutions, we should _vote down Clark's ht in session In approved fornity that would have done no discredit to a high-church bishop, the rules were read off by the Chair voice

After a brief silence, Mr Clark arose and said: ”Mr President, if there is no further business before this , I move we do now adjourn” The motion was duly seconded by Welcoe of McLean County far back in the thirties, and postton when Jackson was President President Shope promptly arose and in the blandest possible terms submitted: ”Gentlemen of the Bar, all who are in favor of the motion to adjourn will please say, Aye” Clark, Brown, and a half-a-dozen others at once voted, ”Aye” ”Those opposed to the motion to adjourn will please say, No,” was the alternative then subersoll, his confederates, and a sufficient contingent won over quietly voted, ”No”

”Thehis seat

”What is the further pleasure of the ersoll and his followers deporting the an occasion for prayer

Again arising, the chairman of the committee--in a voice less rotund than before--said: ”Well, Mr President, if there is no _further_ business before this , I ain put, Clark and half a dozen others voting as before ”Those opposed,” remarked the President-- in tones perceptibly less conciliatory than an hour earlier--”will say, No” The scarcely audible, but none the less effective ”no”

prevailed, the leaderthe mysteries beyond the veil

A silence that could be felt now in very truth fell upon thein the old courthouse asse far out of the ordinary was happening

Receiving little in the way of encouragement, the Chairman of the late committee, as he dubiously looked around upon the forms of the silent ht that touched the very depths,--again and for the last ti officer:

”Mr President, I ain tried in wonted parlia forces, with like result as before, the venerable president,--by way of prelude first giving full vent to an exclamation nowhere to be found in the Methodist ”book of discipline,”--at once indignantly vacated the chair, and literally shook the dust of the court-room frooing,” and although fifty years have co in the old courthouse at Meta been officially adjourned even to this day

XLVII THE HAYNE-WEBSTER DEBATE RECALLED

THE PUBLIC CAREER OF LYMAN TRUMBULL--HE HEARS CALHOUN MAKE A MASTERLY SPEECH IN HIS OWN DEFENCE--TARIFF LAW THE SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION --MR HAYNE'S REPLY

Ex-Senator Lyman Trumbull called upon me at the Vice-President's Chamber a few months before his death It was upon the occasion of his last visit to Washi+ngton He pointed out to me with much interest the seat he had occupied for many years in the Senate

The Senators to whom I introduced him had all come in since his day His associates in that chamber, with three or four exceptions, had passed beyond the veil

The public career of Mr Truuished as a judge, and later as an able and active participant in exciting debates in the Senate, extending from the repeal of the Missouri Compromise to the impeachment of President Johnson He was a member when the sessions of the Senate were held in the old chalas, To his early official associates

As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee he had reported the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

In the course of my conversation with him upon the occasion first mentioned, I inquired whether he had ever met either Webster, Clay, or Calhoun He replied that it was a ret to him that he had never seen either Clay or Webster, but that he had in his early manhood heard a masterful speech froraduated froia, to take charge of a school, he spent a few days in Charleston, South Carolina This was in 1833, and the speech of Mr Calhoun was in vindication of his course in the Senate in voting for the Coradual reduction of the tariff The alleged injustice of the tariff law then in force had been the prime cause of the ”nullification” excitement precipitated by South Carolina at that eventful period The proclamation of President Jackson, it will be remembered, proved the death-blow, and the nullification excitement soon thereafter subsided Mr Trumbull toldpresence and splendid argue As a clear-brained logician--whose stateht Mr Calhoun unsurpassed by any statesman our country had known Mr Trumbull added that at the close of Mr Calhoun's speech before reat enthusiasm, ”Hayne! Hayne!” was heard froe

For an hour or more he then listened spell-bound to Robert Y Hayne, the foronist even of Webster in a debate now historic

Mr Truenerations of public men he had heard, he had never listened to one more eloquent than Hayne

XLVIII IN THE HIGHLANDS

THE WRITER THE GUEST OF A GENTLEMAN IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS-- DUNSTAFFNAGE CASTLE--IONA AND SAINT COLUMBA--SENATOR BECK AND MR SMITH BOTH DEVOTEES OF BURNS

During a sojourn of souest for a time of Mr Stewart, the head of what rehlands My host was a distinguished member of the London Bar, but spent his Summers at the home of his ancestors a few miles out from Alpin Here, in as rohlands, with his kindred about hi cares of the great metropolis At the time of my visit his brother, an officer of the British arentlemen wore kilts for the time; and all the appointone centuries when border warfare was in full flower, forays upon the Lowlands of constant occurrence, and the principle of the clans in action,

”Let him take who has the power And let him hold who can”

At the bountifully furnished board of hway of talk” I will not soon forget And then, with the gathering shadows in the ancestral hall, with the rude weapons of past generations hanging upon every wall, and the stirring strains of the bagpipe co frohland legends that had been handed down from sire to son