UNITED STATÈS BANK. graded road between this place and Portsmouth, via Marietta, Bainbridge, Falmouth, &c.—when It was on motion, Resolved, That the said Committee have so much of the report as relates to the route from the Canal Basin to Mount Pleasant, published for general information. But the Board of Managers of the Marietta, Bainbridge, Falmouth and Portsmoth Road Company have this day noticed that part of the report which relates to their road, in a call for a special meeting of the stockholders, to adopt such measures respecting it as they may think proper-this meeting deems it inexpedient to take any further notice of it, Lancaster, June, 6th, 1835. To Messrs. Boggs, Wright, Odell, Mullison, Cochran, Green and Cooper-Committee on behalf of the Citizens of Columbia. Gentlemen-Agreeably to your request, examinations have been made of the route for the contemplated rail ways from the village of Mount Pleasant, to the borough of Columbia, with a view of avoiding the use of the Columbia inclined plane. tion to be made, if for no other reason than to avoid the plane, which will give general satisfaction. The whole distance from Lancaster, via Columbia, Marietta, Bainbridge, Falmouth, Portsmouth, &c. to Harrisburgh, is about 39 miles, as short a route, and can be completed in much less time, and at one-fourtfr of the expense than Harrisburg can be approached from Lancaster, by any other route over which a rail On behalf of the Committee, road can be made. FRANCIS BOGGS, E. GREEN, Secretary. UNITED STATES BANK. Chairman. Principal items in the monthly statement of the U. S. bank stock, Domestic Bills of Exc. 1,402,286 71 38,787,793 57 63,642,646 04 1,890,753 79 It is found to be entirely practicable to construct a rail way upon the route examined, at a grade not exceeding thirty-four and one half feet per mile, and within the distance of five and a quarter miles from the Canal Basin. The general direction of the line, is highly favorable, and the soil along it is well calculated to form a good road, but a number of wide and deep ravines intersect its course, which will serve to render the grad-Treasurer of the United States, ing expensive. As other engagements prevented me from being present during the instrumental examination of the route, I would respectfully refer you for a detailed description and estimate of the cost of the line, to the annexed statement furnished by Wm. K. Huffnagle, Esq. Assistant Engineer, to whose care the survey was entrusted, and to whose industry its early completion is to be at. tributed. Having recently passed over, and examined the entire line, and having also reviewed the estimate, which has been made out with much care, I am enabled to present you, both the estimate and the accompanying Map of the line, with full confidence in their accuracy. The estimate contemplates the grading for a double track -the superstructure to be of wood, made in the best manner, and plated with iron; the whole sufficiently strong, to admit a general use of Locomotive Engines upon it. Should the Legislature deem it expedient to allow the superstructure (of that part of the rail way belonging to the Commonwealth and contiguous to the proposed route,) to be removed, and laid down upon the graded surface of the new line, its cost will be reduced to $110,000. Very respectfully submitted, EDWARD F. GAY, Civil Engineer. It will be observed that E. F. Gay's report contemplates removing the present track of rail way from Mount Pleasant to the foot of the plane, which must be done one track at a time, after the road formation is completed, to prevent the interruption to travelling. This includes that part of the road where the contemplated road from Marietta would have joined it-but by avoiding the plane by the alteration, and extending the rail road from the Canal Basin to Portsmouth, Marietta will be accommodated with a rail way without the expense of making one, which may be rendered useless by this alteration; and by this change the Commonwealth would gain at least one hundred thousand dollars, which the annual expense attending the stationary Engine, &c. at the plane costs them more than the expense of making the alteration in the road. There is little doubt but that the Legislature will order the altera Baring, Brothers & Co. Public officers, Due from Banks, 705,090 56 Bank Stock, 13,912,577 47 282,896 09 510,999 14 1,016,665 89 10,549,197 56 Domestic Exchange, 1,970,503 68 2,660,160 41 2,164,828 81 9,888,842 25 5,666,541 89 9,099,017 57 826,307 78 125,264 34 124,720 68 1,362,378 65 326,177 47 Boston. 22,009,474 40 4,000,158 49 4,691,857 79 3,018,066 45 From the Pittsburg Gazette. ALLEGHENYTOWN. A few mornings ago, I rode over the aqueduct, through Allegheny, and around its suburbs, spending a pleasant and profitable hour in admiring and reflecting upon the wonderful magic by which it has been raised to its present flourishing condition. As I seldom visit it, I have been very little in it for the last 4 or 5 years. I could not help but admire its present beauty; its delightful scenery; its elegant and highly finished private dwel lings, and its numerous gardens, now robed in all the loveliness of nature's summer foliage. As I rode through it, admiring its advantageous position, improvements, extensive and profitable manufacturing establishments, its present large, industrious, and flourishing population, its beautiful location for a large city, as it inust soon be, with its vastly increasing means, and ratio of population. I could not help but revert to its former contrast in the days of my boyhood. Then, in the autumn and fall of the year, I used to visit its present site for the purpose of gathering wild fruits, nuts, &c., which abounded within its present limits, when there were but two or three smal! log cabins and fishermen's huts in the whole space now occupied by the town, in addition to the residence of the late Mr. James Robinson, now occupied by Wm. Robinson, Jr. Esq., who is the first white man born on that side of the Allegheny river. When the space now occupied by the Western Penitentiary was covered with grape vines, plum, black hawes, hickory, walnut, butter-nut trees; and hazle bushes. Wild game was also abundant, and this was the favorite haunt of our sportsmen. Then the youth of our city were attracted in crowds upon the week and Sabbath days especially; and every person then living in Pittsburgh remembers "Black Jack's immense Water and Musk Melon patches," on the brow and top of the hill, just behind Allegheny town, where the mass of our city used to promenade for "fun and frolic," and where many a Sabbath day was spent improperly and profanely. Now, what a contrast and pleasing change! Where the youth, the idle, and thoughtless, used to misspend the sacred Sabbath of the Lord, we have now a Theological Seminary, seven churches, and two more about to be erected, 12 to 15 Sabbath schools, perhaps as many day schools, a large industrious, and moral population, exceeding 5,000, and rapidly increasing. How heart cheering and great and glorious is the change in this place in a very few years; and yet still greater changes are to be expected in it in a very short time from its many local advantages, running parallel to our thriving city, on the banks of the pure Allegheny river, with the debut of the great Pennsylvania Canal in it, and passing through it, connected with Pittsburgh by a large and excellent bridge and aqueduct, surrounded with the best coal and purest water, and a virtuous, industrious, and enterprising population, Allegheny, like its near neighbor and parent, our city must continue on its onward march most ra pidly. With delightful feelings, and with our noble destiny and onward march to wealth, and usefulness, and honor resting in my mind, I was returning, at an early hour, when I was met by an immense mass of industrious, happy youth, just emerging from a large cotton factory to their homes and breakfasts-this pleasing sight broke my reverie, and at once disclosed the grand secret, the magical art by which Allegheny has risen, as well as that by which all individuals, towns, cities or countries rise, and become flourishing and happy, viz: honest industry, prudence and economy-agriculture, manufactures, commerce and enterprise, judiciously managed, is fast raising our city and all our surrounding towns, country, and nation to a high and noble destiny. With these thoughts and cogitations, I returned to my own "Sweet Home," lost in wonder at the great Mr. Editor.-You will, perhaps, confer a favour on some of your city readers, by informing them that Mr. Duncan of this place is erecting a large and elegant building, which will be finished by the first of July next, for the purpose of accommodating persons visiting the Mineral Springs in this vicinity. The house is of brick, three stories high, with a porch on each side. From the upper story of the front porch the prospect is beautiful; of itself it is worth a ride from the city. Mr. M'Ginness, the proprietor of the springs, is also prepared to receive boarders as usual. The better way for you Mr. Editor, would be to let the political world take care of itself for a few weeks and come and see for yourself. What think you? Respectfully, yours, &c. A READER OF THE ADVOCATE. Pittsburgh Adv. THE REGISTER. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 20, 1835. STRAWBERRIES. GETTYSBURG, Pa., June 15. We were presented on Friday last, with a delicious Strawberry from the garden of Alexander Russel, Esq. of this borough, which measured 34 inches in circumference. The above was no doubt a fine Strawberry-but at the late exhibition of the Horticultural Society, were plates full of quite as fine,and many still larger-a plate from the Garden at the New Almshouse in Blockley, contained some which were measured by gentlemen present, and ascertained to be 4 inches in circumference. They were called "Keen's Seedling,”—and were cultivated in the above garden, by Mr. William Graham, who informed us since, that had the exhibition continued another day, he would have exhibited still larger of the same kind, which he afterwards found. We take this opportunity to notice the splendid collection of flowers, fruits and vegetables, exhibited on this occasion, by the Horticultural Society—and to say, that in extending patronage to it, the public are encouraging the production of fruit and vegetables of the finest kinds, and thus are promoting their own inter ests and pleasures. Printed every Saturday morning by WILLIAM F. GEDDES, No. 9 Library street. The publication office of the Register has been removed from Franklin Place, to No. 61, in the Arcade, West Avenue, up stairs. HAZARD'S REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE. VOL. XV.--NO. 26. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 27, 1835. AN ADDRESS, DELIVERED BEFORE THE LAW ACADEMY OF PHILADELPHIA, BY WILLIAM RAWLE, JR. ESQ. The objects of the Institution, whose exercises are how about to close for the season, being the advance ment of those studies and the cultivation of those habits which tend to form its members for the profession they have chosen, the most appropriate theme for an occa sion like this, would be the nature of that profession, its studies, its duties, its difficulties, its hopes and its rewards. A theme so appropriate and so pregnant with topics calculated to elevate the thoughts, to rouse ambition, and to give a youthful and aspiring mind, that direction, which, if diligently pursued must lead to distinction, could hardly have escaped the attention of those who have preceded me in the duty I am attempting to perform. No. 390. and advance the journey you have undertaken Let me recommend to you the cultivation of cloquence. The reproach that the profession of the law narrows the intellect, and prevents improvement in popular speaking, however well merited it may be in another hemisphere, has no room in this. It is not my business to vindicate the character of the English lawyer from the aspersions, which some writers of his own country have cast upon it, but if it be true that few examples are to be found in the history of the English Bar, of comprehensive and varied knowledge, of largely developed mind, and of rich, powerful and cultivated eloquence, the reason for these deficiencies may, perhaps, be dis covered in the nature of the pursuits of the English practitioner, and of the studies by which he qualifies himself for them. Wherever the labourers are numerous and the divisions of labour minute, a high degree of perfection is attained in that part of it to which the attention of the individual is particularly directed; but the effort absorbs nearly all the power of his mind leaving little to be applied even to other branches of the art. Thus it is in some measure in the profession of the law in the land of our ancestors. The extent of her population, and her wealth, renders the law, parThe necessity for close and unremitting application ticularly that portion of it which relates to real estate, to the studies immediately connected with the profes- complicated, and its professors numerous. In the exsion, and the best methods of overcoming the difficul- cess of competition, few can hope for success, without ties by which they are surrounded; the advantage of close application and pre-eminent merit in the business mingling with severer pursuits, those of elegant litera- they undertake. Even family interest and patronage, ture and classic reading; of invigorating the intellect which exercise so controlling an influence in the army and enlarging its boundaries, by exploring the avenues and the church, can do little to advance the fortunes of of history, and investigating the arcana of science, in him who seeks the distinctions of the Bar. They may aid of a profession, which, in its practice, may furnish opportunities for the display of merit, but they touch almost every part of the circle of human know- can give to him who does not possess it, no hold upledge; the doubts, the fears, the anxieties, which, after on public confidence. With a favouring gale, they the noviciate of the student has expired, hang over the may waft his bark from the shore, but whether she shall prospects of the practitioner's early career, and the make a prosperous voyage, or sink into the sea of obbright gleams of hope, which from time to time break livion, must depend on his skill to direct his course.through the gloom, animating his exertions and restor-In no profession dues success so much depend upon acing his energies; the duties which he owes to himself, to his client and the community in which he moves; the high moral and intellectual qualities which enter into the character of an accomplished lawyer, and the brilliant rewards which crown the efforts of him, who, never weary with well doing," steadily pursues the path upon which he has entered, neither deterred by the difficulties he finds in his way, nor drawn aside by the allurements which lurk in its borders, have already, more than once been set before you, in a manner calculated to kindle your hopes, to stimulate your exertions, and successfully to direct your course. The field is indeed extensive and its products rich, but were I to attempt to follow those who have gone through every part of it, and reaped its abundant harvest, I should gather only the few scattered ears which they have suf. fered to remain upon its surface, adding little to the stores they have laid up for you, and exhibiting only the poverty of a gleaner. Leaving then the high road which you have already travelled with so much advantage, with those who have heretofore led your steps, let me invite you to enter one of those beautiful walks immediately connected with it, adorned with flowers, and decorated with every thing which tends to enliven VOL. XV. ་་ 51 tual merit; in no profession is there so little room for the arts of the charlatan, as in that of the law, in all its branches. Always before the public, subjected to the jealous scrutiny of his brethren, and exercising à calling intimately connected with the dearest interests of society, it is scarcely possible for the lawyer long to veil his real character, or to long enjoy an unfounded reputation. Hence the various branches of the profes sion, instead of being blended as they usually are in this country, are broken into distinct divisions, each calling for a distinct set of practitioners. The whole presents a magnificent garden, embellished throughout with every thing which its soil can be made to produce; but this exquisite culture is the result of undivided la bour upon each particular portion of it, bestowed by a separate class of labourers, having generally very little knowledge of what exists beyond the immediate limits of their own allotment. The attorney and solicitor, confined to the mechanical parts of the profession, and the conveyancer buried in the dark intricacies of that system, which an artificial state of society and complicated family arrangements have introduced, may attain a point of perfection in his own department, seldom found in any member of the profession here, but he will every thing it touched, and not only secured to him extensive practice in this profession, and a commanding influence in the councils of the nation, but placed him on the Woolsack, the most exalted station in the gift of his sovereign. have little opportunity to pursue its more liberal branches, less to cultivate elegant literature, and none for the exercise of popular speaking. In the more elevated walks too of professional life, the same apportionment of the vineyard will be found. He whose duties call him into the Court of Chancery is seldom heard It is unnecessary to produce other examples of illusin those of the common law; and he who enjoys an ex- trious men, the force of whose talents and acquiretensive practice and commanding influence in the King's ments has broken the trammels by which the profession Bench, is known only by reputation in the Common is fettered in our mother country, and nobly vindicated Pleas. This limited sphere of employment, necessarily the character of that profession from the charge of beinduces a limited range of thought and of study, anding inconsistent with liberal learning, enlarged intelbegets a sameness and poverty of manner, altogether lect, and true eloquence. incompatible with fulness of ideas, richness of language, The disadvantages, however, under which they laand the graces of delivery. The immense mass of bu-boured, have no existence in the country in which your siness, with which the dockets of the English courts are lot has happily been cast. Free from the operation of loaded, is another impediment to public speaking. The those degrading distinctions of rank which measure a time of the court is so precious, that none can be spa- man, not by his moral and intellectual qualities, but red for what is not absolutely necessary for the dis- by the circumstances in which accident has placed him, patch of business. A cold,dry, argumentative manner, and strive to bind him down to the position in which he consequently characterises the speaking of Westmin- was born; with all the avenues to distinction open bester Hall, for he who turns aside to "catch a grace," is fore him, and no obstacle to impede his march except immediately recalled to the beaten path which leads collision with rivals pressing forward to the same point, directly to the point under discussion. Having little no country ever presented such golden prospects, such time for the attainment of enlarged knowledge, and captivating and magnificent rewards, to the perseverlittle opportunity either for the cultivation or the dising, the enlightened,the eloquent, and the aspiring lawplay of eloquence in his own profession, it cannot ex- yer, as that happy land, which we prodly call our own. cite surprise, that when the English lawyer is translated It is the Paradise of lawyers. In every department of to another scene of action, he should be found deficient the community in which talent is called for, they are in those qualifications which are essential to distinction. to be found, and the very prejudice, which unfortuHis inability to cope on the floor of Parliament with nately exists in some minds against them, is the most those master spirits by whom its history is illustrated, flattering, though certainly not the most agreeable trihas often been the subject of inviduous remark. The bute which can be paid to their merit. In all private reproach is in a great degree merited, but the causes and public institutions, of religion, of learning, of benewhich give rise to it are sufficiently obvious. Unfa-volence, of commercial enterprise and public improvevourable however as is the atmosphere of the Englishment, in all the associations in which men unite, for the courts for the growth of eloquence, there are many advancement of a common object, the influence of the bright examples of its successful cultivation, sufficient to redeem the whole profession from the sentence which has been passed upon it. There have been some profession is fully felt, if scantly acknowledged. In the legislative balls of every state in the confederacy, and in both branches of our national councils, the voice of the lawyer is heard, and carries with it a power "Who on the tip of their persuasive tongue, which nothing can resist. The delicate duties and the Carried all arguments and questions deep; high bonors of diplomacy, and even the most exalted And replication prompt and reason strong, station in the power of a free people to confer, have To make the weeper smile, the laugher weep: drawn more from the ranks of our profession, than from They had the dialect and different skill, those of all others united. To enumerate those memCatching all passions in their craft of will." bers of it who have risen to distinction, would be, with few exceptions, to read the catalogue of illustrious men ERSKINE was a lawyer: and if in Parliament, he dis- whose names are emblazoned in the history of their appointed those, who from his brilliant career at the country. And to what is to be ascribed the enviable Bar, anticipated success no less brilliant as a legislator, pre-eminence they have thus attained? The great enyet the powers of his mind, the splendour of his imagi-gine by which they have raised this mighty fabric of nation, the copiousness and force of his language, and the fervor and persuasiveness of his eloquence, displayed throughout his forensic life, abundantly vindicated his profession from unmerited obliquy, and established for himself a reputation, which "Per omnia sæcula famâ influence and usefulness, is eloquence, which has enabled them to sway the passions, to direct the preju dices, to influence the judgment, and to master the will of mankind. Thus it has ever been in those countries in which the popular voice has given the direction to public affairs. It was eloquence which raised PisisTRATUS, the first who made the Athenians bend to its lumi-complished PERICLES, governed the destinies of the influence, to sovereign power; and the splendidly acsame refined and intellectual people, less by the arts of the politician and the skill of the commander, than by the force and persuasiveness of the orator. But the story of their lives, while it affords a striking example tion by the force of eloquence, furnishes a sad and saluof the power of genius, supported and brought into actary lesson upon the abuse of the best gifts of the Creator. They enslaved their country, and the glory which encircles their names, is shrouded and darkered by the reproach of selfish ambition. (Si quid habent veri vatum præsagia) vivat." MANSFIELD was a lawyer, whose enlarged and nous mind spread light upon every subject on which it shone; and although none of his speeches at the Bar, and few of those which he delivered in either house, have been preserved in such a manner as to convey an adequate idea, either of the gracefulness of his style or the powers of his eloquence, yet the character of the "silver tongued MURRAY," both as a forensic and parliamentary orator, is scarcely inferior to that by which he adorned the elevated station of Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. ROMILLY was a lawyer; mild, placid and dignified, his eloquence In this country, every thing tends not only to stimuwas as chaste, persuasive and im- late the cultivation of the art of public speaking by the pressive, as his mind was pure, enlightened and philo-rewards it proposes, but to facilitate its improvement; sophic. BROUGHAM is a lawyer, whose varied knowledge and bold and powerful eloquence enabled him to give full scope to an intellect which grasped and mastered almost and so long as we retain that patriotism and independence of mind which have heretofore marked our national character, we shall have no cause to apprehend the fatal consequences which in other climes have 1835.] LAW ACADEMY.-RAWLE'S ADDRESS. 403 sometimes attended the possession of popular talents.- merit of a sound lawyer, and may in time reap the rePainting and eloquence are plants of spontaneous wards of a successful practitioner, but he cannot hope growth in our soil; but while the former languishes and either for individual distinction, or to sustain the exalt. sickens in its native atmosphere, the latter is nourished, ed character of his profession. He must be "content invigorated and brought to healthy maturity. The to dwell in decencies forever." To carry with him names of WEST, COPLEY, ALSTON, LESLIE, and many public feeling and public opinion, upon which alone others, assert the undeniable claim of America to geni-reputation and success are built, and to rise to that us in the arts; but our free and equal institutions deny eminence to which he ought to aspire, he must not to it that fostering patronage, without which it cannot only possess the treasures of his profession, but be caflourish, and it is compelled to seek in another hemis- pable of displaying them to advantage. He must phere, under the sunshine of the hereditary wealth, and "make his light shine before men." The value of the refined luxury of a liberal aristocracy, those hot-house diamond is unknown and unappreciated, until it is uninfluences which are necessary to make it blossom, bear buried and made to sparkle to the eye. Depth of learnfruit and ripen. But those institutions and habits of ing, soundness of judgment and skill in the management life which are so hostile to the success of the painter, of business, will secure the confidence of those who are are calculated to develope the powers, to advance the benefitted by these valuable qualities, and gradually enstudies, and to form the character of the orator. How large the sphere of professional action; but if they be ever obscure his birth and humble his condition, the boy enforced by the persuasive and controlling powers of who feels his bosom throb with the divine impulse of eloquence, full effect is given to what might lose part genius, and is conscious of his strength steadily and per- of their value, from not being properly brought into noseveringly to pursue its direction, knows that there is tice. Nor does the lawyer depend upon the favorable nothing too brilliant for his hopes, nothing tou exalted opinion of his immediate clients, or of those in whose for his aspirations. His heart does not quail under the circle they move, alone for advancement. He is befrown, or wither under the contempt of acknowledged fore the public, who will judge of him by the manner superiors, and the icy influence of family power, cannot in which he exhibits himself to them. Few have the "freeze the genial current of his soul." His spirit opportunity or the capacity, to appreciate those powers, bold, independent and unrebuked, carries him forward however great, which are exercised in the shade in spite of the puny efforts of envious opposition, to of the office, or shown, even in the skillful concheck his career. duct of a cause in court, but all within the range of the The school in which a youth such as I have describ-speaker's voice may be enlightened by his arguments, ed enrolls himself, is a lawyer's office, where alone he touched by his pathos, delighted by his imagination, can expect to pursue those studies, to form those habits, captivated by his graces, and carried along by the torand to find those opportunities, which are to lead him rent of his eloquence. Such powers invariably comto the objects for which he hopes. It is a school admi- mand success. The importance then of cultivating this rably fitted not only to instil into his mind that learning irresistable talent, cannot be too strongly impressed on which immediately belongs to his profession, but to the mind of the student. imbue it with those principles, and to fill it with that But what is eloquence? It would degrade its exalted knowledge which will enable him, at a future period, character to lend its name to that flippancy of speech, to wield and to work, the most powerful engine in a which indicates little more than the conceit of the republican country. Unrestrained to any branch of speaker, or to that empty and showy declamation, which study, by being destined to make that branch of the substitutes sound for sense, and glittering gewgaws, and profession to which it appertains his future pursuit, the tawdry tinsel for real jewels and sterling metal, or even whole volume of legal science is laid open to him, and to that artificial rhetoric, formed upon the rules of art, he must read it, because in the exercise of professional which springs neither from the operations of the mind duty, he will be called upon to apply almost all its pre- nor the workings of the heart. The foundations of cepts. The common law in all its modifications, the true eloquence, are a generous spirit, a pure heart, a principles and practice of courts of equity, the civil and sound head and extensive knowledge. "Est eloquen the ecclesiastical law, should be as familiar to him as tiæ sicut reliquarum rerum, fundamentum, sapientia.""household words," for they all enter into the practice The same great authority from whom this sentiment of the American lawyer. Connected with these, a emanated, himself the most illustrious example of the deep and accurate knowledge of history, particularly art he commends, declares that every virtue and every of that of Great Britain, some acquaintance with the species of knowledge are necessary to constitute the useful and even the elegant arts and sciences, familiari- character of an accomplished orator. To require so ty with polite literature, and more than all, profound much, is to place the object beyond the reach of human and frequent study of that sacred volume, from which effort. But it is obvious, that the further we advance are drawn not only the purest precepts of morals,and the in the path he points out, the nearer we shall approach divine duties of religion, but the richest and most abund- to that which is too high ever to be reached. In the ant supplies of thought and language, are necessary to constitution of a forensic orator, a thorough acquaintenable him successfully to perform the varied duties of ance with his profession, and with all those branches of his calling. All these objects may and ought to be knowledge which are ancillary to it, is an essential inpursued, in connection with his legal studies, during gredient, as well as full preparation for the particular the probationary term of the student. With a mind cause in which he is to speak. Without these, even thus prepared by previous discipline, he comes to the the powers of native and cultivated eloquence will be Bar, and mingles in those contests, which call forth his exercised in vain. He who possesses them, may enjoy strength and exercise his powers. Obliged to embrace a short lived reputation and ephemeral success, but real every variety of professional employment, every varie-eminence and permanent distinction, are reserved for ty of professional talent is called into action. This di- him who unites the attractions of the orator, with the versity of objects to which the mind is applied, if it prevents that perfection which is attained by the pursuit of a few, tends to enlarge and improve the general intellect, and is particularly propitious to the cultivation of eloquence, the most valuable talent the American lawyer can possess. He who overcomes the intricacies of the science, stores his mind with juridicial learning, and makes himself familiar with its practical application, but neglects that art by which the heart is moved and the understanding convinced, may claim the solid and enduring qualities of the lawyer. The greater the depth from which it is drawn, the purer and more refreshing is the stream. That eloquence which is most felt and produces the greatest results, is bold, manly, and impressive; clear in conception, fervid in expres. sion, energetic yet dignified in action; the eloquence, not merely of language or manner, but of thought and feeling. The rounded periods, the beautiful imagery and the graceful delivery of the artificial orator, may please the ear, amuse the fancy, and command the ad |