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Webster came to Concord in the summer of 1843 as counsel
for William Wyman, President of the Phoenix Bank of Charlestown,
who was indicted for embezzling the funds of the bank. This
was one of the _causes celebres_ of the day. 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. The adulation to which he had been so long
accustomed tended to increase a natural, and perhaps not
wholly unjustifiable, haughtiness of manner.
The Government was represented by Asahel R. Huntington, of
Salem, District Attorney for the district which included Essex
and Middlesex.


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