The court-rooms were nearly always crowded for here were rehearsed and acted the dramas, the tragedies, and the comedies of real life.

The court-house has always been a very attractive place to the people of the frontier.

It supplied the place of theatres, lecture and concert rooms, and other places of interest and amusement in the older settlements and towns.

The leading lawyers and judges were the star actors, and had each his partisans.

Hence crowds attended the courts to see the judges, to hear the lawyers contend, with argument and law and wit, for success, victory, and fame.