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Show LOST AM. I N T ER EST IN LIFE. Charles O't'onor. the great lawyer of New York, in his recent addrrws to tho Bar Association, in regard to hi action in the Forrest divorce case, in dulges in tho following rather melancholy melan-choly strain: I don't wiuh it lo be undtrslooil that I come hero for the purpose oi vindicating my reputation or oi caving it from attack. 1 have no objeel whether my reputation he good oi bad. I have no material inti i-rsi in it. I have pretty miu-h pasi if all interest of human life 1 am cuiieeriiid in ho public matte" that rend ere reputal ion a thing of any com (iienee to uu whatever. 1 am c nicer m d in no iri-vato iri-vato hi witiess whii'li would make it desirable for me to extend or neciuc a generally favorable opinion. I have no doubt at all that tin su who actually ac-tually know mo and have observed my course of life and conduct hardly deniro even so much as a denial in refereneo to any imputation upon my proleffiional or personal conduct. And for the outside world, for tho-ic whom I don't know, with whom I do not come in contact, I have only to say that as (o them, whiU I do not covet their ill opinion, I wnh, to pro-led pro-led myself against any poesil.le influence it might have, witii nootlier weapon than coiiKciniiH rectitude, I do not ask even my dear friends lo olarid up and Ray one word for me. I could stand against the wide World upon that capital, and would rather scorn the aid than undertake to vindicate vindi-cate my charaelcr ngaii,nt the crowd who know niu not. |
