Wyman had been a business man of high standing.

Such offences were rare in those days, and the case would have attracted great attention whoever had been for the defence.

But the defendant's counsel were Daniel Webster, Rufus Choate, Franklin Dexter, and my brother, E.R.Hoar, a young man lately admitted to the bar.
Mr.Webster, notwithstanding his great fame as a statesman, is said never to have lost his eager interest in causes in which he was retained.

When he found himself hard pressed, he put forth all his strength.

He was extremely impatient of contradiction.