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Updated: June 19, 2025
It was an illustration of what I have often met with: of a speech which was exactly the right thing for the occasion and crowd, but lost its effect in publication. Corwin's humor barred his path to great office, and he saw many ordinary men advance ahead of him. The most potent factor in the destruction of his enemies and buttressing his own cause was his inimitable wit and humor.
From Sheriff Corwin's Return, we know that the first victim was buried "in the place" where she was executed; and it may be supposed all the rest were. The soil is shallow, near the brow of the precipice and between the clefts of the rock. The Reviewer desires to know my authority for saying that the ground, where Burroughs was buried, "was trampled down by the mob."
We have on the platform in these times no speaker of his type. He had remarkable influence whenever he participated in debate in the House of Representatives. On the stump or hustings he would draw audiences away from Henry Clay or any of the famous speakers of the time. I sometimes wonder if our more experienced and more generally educated audiences of to-day would be swayed by Corwin's methods.
Over in Corwin's store, where "Aunt Hannah," had gone to make some small purchases, the woman who had encountered Lawler in the hall was talking with the proprietor. Aunt Hannah was watching a clerk. "Della," she called; "do you want anything?" "Nothing, Aunty," returned the woman. Then she lowered her voice, speaking to Corwin: "So he owns the Circle L? Is that a large ranch?"
But there was a light in Corwin's eyes which told that he was not unaware of the significance of Lawler's trip to the capital with McGregor. There came a day when Corwin and his brother-delegates got on a train at Willets and were taken to the capital. And there came another day when they returned.
Energetic citizens had gayly decorated the street with flags and bunting taking Corwin's entire stock and the varicolored decorations swathed the town from end to end. Warden and Singleton had scurried out of town long before the coming of Lawler.
It may be that there are more eloquent passages in English than some of the finest in this speech, where he warned the American people against the doom of unjust ambition, but I do not know them. It was the supreme effort of his life, but it was addressed to a time of unwholesome patriotic frenzy, and Corwin's popularity suffered fatally from it.
They were very soft and timid this morning there was something appealing in their tempting depths. "May I not walk with you? I am going your way," were her first words as she reached his side. "Whither, pray?" "Oh, to " and here she blushed, for in truth she had no destination "to Anna Corwin's," she concluded in relief. "But Mistress Corwin lives back yonder. How came you to be going this way?"
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