Mr.Choate's client, who was the wife, was charged with adultery.

I did not hear the closing argument, but my classmates who did reported that Mr.Webster spoke of the woman with great severity and argued the case with a scriptural plainness of speech.

He likened the case of the husband bound to an adulterous wife to the old Hebrew punishment of fastening a living man to a corpse.

"Who shall deliver me from the body of this death ?" But Judge Fletcher, who held the court, decided in favor of the wife.
The meeting which gathered at Worcester in pursuance of the above call, inaugurated for the first time a party for the sole object of resisting the extension of slavery.

The Liberty Party, which had cast a few votes in the presidential election of 1840, and which, in 1844, had turned the scale in New York and so in the nation against Mr.Clay, was willing to support the candidates of other parties who were personally unobjectionable to them in this respect.