The evidence was objected to, and Allen undertook
to support his right to put the question. He said we were
able to distinguish men from each other by describing their
manner and behavior, when the person describing might not
know the man by name. "For instance, may it please your Honor,
suppose a stranger who came into this court-house during this
trial were called to testify to what took place, and he should
say that he did not know anybody in the room by sight, but
there was a lawyer there who was constantly interrupting the
other side, talking a great deal of the time, but after all
didn't seem to have much to say. Who would doubt that he
meant my Brother Washburn?"
This gibe is only worth recording as showing the court-house
manners of those times. It is no true picture of the honest,
faithful and beloved Emory Washburn. He was public-spirited,
wise, kind-hearted, always ready to give his service without
hope of reward or return to any good cause, a pillar of the
town, a pillar of the church. He had sometimes a certain
confusion of statement and of thought, but it was only apparent
in his oral discourse.
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