. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . e and an example to the nations, that will eclipse even thetriumph of your arms, in the vindication of the public justice in thesublimer and more peaceful triumph of the law. The eyes of anexpectant people are upon you. You have but to do your duty, andthe patriot will realize that the good genius of the nation, the angelof our deliverance, is still about us and around us, as in the darkesthour of the nations trial. On the same day William M. Evarts of New York be-gan the longest speech of the trial, finishing it on May i. Ineed
. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . e and an example to the nations, that will eclipse even thetriumph of your arms, in the vindication of the public justice in thesublimer and more peaceful triumph of the law. The eyes of anexpectant people are upon you. You have but to do your duty, andthe patriot will realize that the good genius of the nation, the angelof our deliverance, is still about us and around us, as in the darkesthour of the nations trial. On the same day William M. Evarts of New York be-gan the longest speech of the trial, finishing it on May i. Ineed his personal appearance btit briefly. In phy-sique he was sUght and about five feet nine inches in height;a thin, highly intellectual, classical face, Roman nose, full,broad, and high forehead, a large, wide and oblong head,set and held somewhat on the order of Senator elocution was slow and exceedingly deliberate, ges-tures sparce; courteous and considerate—a walking ency-clopedia of law and history, sacred and profane. His sen- 194. U. S. SENATOR SIMON CAMERON, PENNSYLVANIAEX-SECRETARY OF WAR Civil-war Echoes—Character tences were decidedly Miltonic in their great length andponderous gravity and scholarship—without terminals, ashe once said. My reader must rest content if I serve no more of Evartsthan I have given of the other speakers. I offer the per-oration of what many regarded as the ablest of all thesemighty intellectual offspring. Listen, ye lawyers andscholars: Power does not always sway and swing from the same center. Ihave seen great changes and great evils come from this matter ofunconstitutional laws not attended to as unconstitutional, but as-serted, and prevailing, too, against the Constitution, till at last thepower of the Constitution took other form than that of peaceful,judicial determination and execution. I will put some instances ofthe wickedness of disobeying unconstitutional laws and of the tri-umph of those who maintained it t
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