History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . erred him from mak-inn any exhibition in court, or taking any position as anadvocate. Perhaps the circumstance of his connectionwith Mr. Mellen, in the early years of his practice, re- the scholar to the wrangles of the bar, and devoted muchtime to poetry and prose composition, which illuminatedthe columns of the newspapers and periodicals. In con-nection with the wits about town,—Savage, Payson, Daveis,Deering, Carter, Wright, and others, Portland was kept ingood humor; and the Pilgr
History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . erred him from mak-inn any exhibition in court, or taking any position as anadvocate. Perhaps the circumstance of his connectionwith Mr. Mellen, in the early years of his practice, re- the scholar to the wrangles of the bar, and devoted muchtime to poetry and prose composition, which illuminatedthe columns of the newspapers and periodicals. In con-nection with the wits about town,—Savage, Payson, Daveis,Deering, Carter, Wright, and others, Portland was kept ingood humor; and the Pilgrim, Prowler, Nlght-TIaioh, andTorpedo flashed with merriment which would have donehonor to the Salamagundi or to the modern Punch. When he went to Portland, in 1808, he found his class-mates. Savage and Payson (afterwards the distinguishedpreacher, but at that time the preceptor of the new acad-emy), pursuing their studies there, and, to amuse them-selves, they were writing a series of articles in the OldPortland Gazette (then edited by Isaac Adams) overthe signature of Pilgrim. They immediately pressed. Photo, by J. T. Locke, , yU^:iKJ, <^^^^z.^:^ strained him from aiming at or acquiring any experienceas an advocate. Mr. Mellen argued all his own causes, aswell as many of those commenced by other lawyers, withrare zeal and ability, so that a junior partner could haveno opportunity to acquire facility in the art. Mr. Sewallhad great delicacy and sensitiveness of taste ; nothing com-monplace or inferior could ever satisfy the demand of hisown criticism. He had had also a shrinking diffidencewhich seemed to be natural to the family,—his father anduncles, Jotham and Henry, had it; so had the excellentjudge, David Sewall, and the wise and modest chief jus-tice, Samuel Sewall, who died while holding court at Wis-casset in 1814. Mr. Sewall was a scholar and a ripe one, of cultivatedtaste and fine thought. He preferred the quiet pursuits of Sewall into the service, an
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