New Hampshire As It Is . amount of labor whichhe performs from Mcek to week is almost incalculable, aswill readily appear to any who knows any thing of the NewYork Tribune — to say nothing of the large portion of histime taken up in lecturing in various parts of the country,in attending great political meetings, &c. To pass a finaljudgment upon his peculiar views or writings at the pres-ent time, when great and unforeseen changes are the fixedlaw of social existence, would be as unfair as to submit acase to the jury without giving the defendant an oppor-tunity to state the grounds of his defen
New Hampshire As It Is . amount of labor whichhe performs from Mcek to week is almost incalculable, aswill readily appear to any who knows any thing of the NewYork Tribune — to say nothing of the large portion of histime taken up in lecturing in various parts of the country,in attending great political meetings, &c. To pass a finaljudgment upon his peculiar views or writings at the pres-ent time, when great and unforeseen changes are the fixedlaw of social existence, would be as unfair as to submit acase to the jury without giving the defendant an oppor-tunity to state the grounds of his defence. To judge ofthis man correctly, his mission must have been fully closed,his pen must have written its last word, and the immortalmust have separated from its mortal habitation. JOHN P. HALE* John P. Hale was born in Rochester, New Hampshire,on the 31st day of March, 1806. His father bore thesame Christian name, but was born in Portsmouth, Rock-ingham county, just previous to the declaration of inde- * See ^yy- ^ 548 NEW HAMPSHIRE AS IT IS. Subsequently, and after the death of his father, Mr,Hale entered Exeter Academy, then under the charge ofDr. Abbott, who died in 1838, after occupying that positionof usefulness for fifty years. Thus prepared, he entered the venerable college of Bow-doin, where he graduated in 1827. Among his collegemates were Franklin Pierce, now president of the UnitedStates, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the biographer of thenations chief, and consul at Liverpool. He studied lawat Rochester and Dover, in his native state, finishing hisstudies at the latter place, in the office of Daniel M. Chris-tie, who stands among the ablest lawyers of the Hale soon found himself in a large and agreeablepractice, the more welcome because affording him frequentopportunities for the display of a degree of power beforejuries in criminal trials, which showed itself, in the prog-ress of the celebrated government cases in Boston, knownas the Shadrach trial
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