The Major was at a loss
for some time what to do in indicting it. If he set forth
the whole book, it would give it an immortality on the records
of the court which perhaps would be worse for the public morals
than the original publication. Finally he averred in the
indictment that the defendant had published a book so indecent
that it was unfit to be spread on the records of the court.
The question went up to the Supreme Court and the indictment
was held good. It was difficult for the Court or the jury
to find that such a book was fit to be spread on the records
of the Court, and the Major secured his victory and convicted
his criminal.
One of the bright young lawyers who came to the Bar a few
years after I did, was Appleton Dadmun. He died of consumption
after a brief but very successful career. He was the very
type and embodiment of the Yankee countryman in his excellencies
and his defects and in his fashion of speech and behavior.
He was a graduate of Amherst College. The only evidence I
ever discovered of his classical education was his habit of
using the Greek double negative in ordinary English speech.
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