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Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

CHAPTER VIII
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At last Judge Allen, who was presiding, said: "Mr.Webster, I cannot suffer myself to be interrupted." Mr.
Webster replied: "I cannot suffer my client to be misrepresented," To which the judge answered: "Sit down, sir." Mr.Webster resumed his seat.

When the jury went out, Judge Allen turned to the Bar where Mr.Webster was sitting and said: "Mr.Webster." Mr.Webster rose with the unsurpassed courtesy and grace of manner of which he was master, and said: "Will the court pardon me a moment ?" He then proceeded to express his regret for the zeal which had impelled him to a seeming disrespect to His Honor, and expressed his sorrow for what had occurred; and the incident was at an end.
At the first trial at Concord, Mr.Webster had frequent altercations with District Attorney Huntington.

In his closing argument, which is said to have been one of great power, and which he began by an eloquent reference to the battle of Concord Bridge, which, he said, was fought by Concord farmers that their children might enjoy the blessings of an impartial administration of justice under the law, he said that it was unlikely that Wyman could have abstracted large sums from the bank and no trace of the money be found in his possession.

He was a man of small property, living simply and plainly, without extravagant habits or anything which would have been likely to tempt him to such crime.

When Huntington came to reply he said, very roughly: "They want to know what's become of the money.
I can tell you what's become of the money.


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