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To: Brumar89 who wrote (7527)	6/16/2010 8:27:54 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

INGERSOLL AND CONKLING Another incident will illustrate this X-ray faculty of Mr. Ingersoll's mind. In a telegraph suit before Judge Wallace at Syracuse, New York, the late Roscoe Conkling and the Colonel were associate counsel. On the train from New York, Mr. Conkling said: "I'm ashamed to confess it, Colonel, but I really haven't had time properly to examine the papers in this case and I don't feel prepared to argue it; you must do it, or we will have to move a postponement." "No, no, that won't do, it will damage our suit; let me see the papers." Mr. Conkling produced them. The Colonel examined them. Before reaching Syracuse he handed them back, saying: "Conkling, I will argue this case, although, as you know, my throat is bad to-day and I'll have to whisper my argument in the Court's ear." "I'm extremely sorry, Colonel, to put this burden on you, but I see no other way. Do you think you understand the case with this brief inspection?" "Perfectly; as well as if I had studied it for weeks," and for the next few miles he laid it all out before his astonished auditor. "Is that the way you prepare your briefs, Colonel?" "Why not? If I can't catch on to a case by reading it, as soon as the Court does by hearing it, I'd make a nice Judge or lawyer, wouldn't I?" "You're a strange man, Colonel, I can't fathom you!" The case was argued in a whisper, and won. This remark of the Senator was meant as a compliment -- the highest he could pay to the ability and genius of a brother lawyer. I cannot forget his look and manner of unfeigned admiration, as he expressed himself. Not long after -- alas, too soon! -- when the New York Legislature requested Colonel Ingersoll to deliver before them a memorial address on Senator Conkling, the Colonel delivered the noblest tribute to his departed friend and associate ever heard in a legislative hall. When urged sometimes by nervous clients to defer his summing up of their case a reasonable time after all the evidence was in and the arguments heard, he would say: "I want no adjournment, I am ready to go right on; I have heard it all as fully as the Court and jury, and that's enough." A readier, more alert mind than Robert G. Ingersoll's never practiced in a court of law.