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I observed her ladyship treated with something like contempt her neighbour the Reverend Lionel Pettipois, a young divine whom you may track through the country by little 'awakening' books at half-a-crown a hundred, which dribble out of his pockets wherever he goes. 'Why, dear Mr. Ponto was a humbug, and Miss Wirt a nuisance, with her abominable piano practice, why did you stay so long?
With half-formed thoughts like these stirring vaguely in his mind, Dan was dropping off into pleasant sleep, when he was roused by the sound of voices and the glimmering of a ship's lantern. "I think you will find your boy here, sir." It was Mr. John Wirt, who, with the aid of a friendly deck hand, was guiding a pale, tottering, very sick Brother Bart to Dan's side.
"I ask that, after the statement of the adjournment of the house, there be added to the journal words importing that it was to give the Speaker and members of the house an opportunity of attending the funeral obsequies of William Wirt. "At the adjournment of the house on Wednesday I did not know what the arrangements were, or would be, for that mournful ceremony.
Unfortunately, the brilliant arraignment by William Wirt was printed and read for half a century, while the calm rulings of Chief Justice Marshall never went beyond the court room. Why did a man of his capabilities, upon retirement from the vice-presidency, attempt, at fifty years of age to start life anew under such unpromising conditions?
Hay, the District Attorney, with his associates William Wirt and Alexander McRae, now appeared, and immediately afterward the imposing array of the prisoner's counsel, a phalanx which included no less than four sometime Attorneys-General and two subalterns of note.
And now that the grave has closed above Wirt and Tazewell, it is refreshing to contemplate the cordiality of their friendship, and the substantial welcome which Tazewell extended to Wirt; and it is proper to say that, but for the revelations of Mr. Wirt himself contained in his published letters, and in the statements of his nearest friends, the recollection of the generous kindness of Mr.
Meade, Old Families and Churches of Va. i. 220. Maury, Mem. of a Huguenot Fam. 423. Wirt, 39-41. Mem. by Jefferson, in Hist. Mag. for 1867, 91. Jefferson's Works, vi. 365. Mem. by Jefferson, in Hist. Mag. for 1867, 91. Jour. Va. House of Burgesses.
The case was 'argued before the Supreme Court by the most eminent lawyers of the day, Pinkney, Webster, and Wirt appearing for the bank, and Luther Martin, Joseph Hopkinson, and Walter Jones for the State of Maryland. The unanimous opinion of the court was delivered by Marshall.
"Golly!" gasped Freddy, who had crept in behind his chum. "Is is he dead, Dan?" "Not not yet, but he looks mighty close to it. Mr. Wirt " he faltered, bending over the prostrate form; "Mr. Wirt!" he repeated louder. There was no answer. "I'm afraid he's gone," said Dan, in an awe-struck voice; and Freddy burst into boyish tears. "What are you crying about?" asked Dan, gruffly.
Gibbs, Administration of Washington, etc. i. 337; see, also, Hamilton, Works, vi. 114. Jefferson, Writings, iv. 148. Entire letter in Wirt, 385-387.
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