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GLANCES AT OUR COLONIAL BAR. II. T OSEPH GALLOWAY, who practiced order arose, whereupon after the methods in I law in Philadelphia in 1774, was one of France he put his hat on as signal that the the lew native-born lawyers of the colonies sitting was closed. who became a Tory, and losing his practice "Now I feel I am a descendant of the there, went to New York, where he en father of Pocahontas," Charles Thomson, deavored to obtain then clerk of Con gress is reported to legal foothold; until, in 1779, Parliament have heard him say, summoned him to "for here I am Pow testify as to military wow-hat-on." He mismanagement. continued to prac tice law in Philadel Before a committee he was very severe phia, and died there on Admiral Lord in harness, of apo Howe. He always plexy, from over work in two capaci lived afterwards in ties, and nine months London, and became before the Declara barrister there. He tion of Indepen had a great personal dence was adopted. dislike for Howeand The legal traditions after the latter had of Virginia give him evacuated New high rank as its York, Galloway pen attorney-general. cilled this couplet He was succeeded on a brief:— "Lord Howe he came in as speaker by John with a terrible bout; Hancock. But when the war ended, Once in a great lord! how he came out." while hunters for PEYTON RANDOLPH Peyton Randolph rare books encoun was born inVirginia, ter one entitled "A nine years before George Washington, and memoir of the American Revolution from its was a descendant of Powhatan. Sent to commencement to the year 1 yyj, by William Henry Drayton." He was a distinguished England, he graduated at Oxford and re turned home to practice as a lawyer. When colonial lawyer and judge of South Carolina, both under British and colonial rule. A only thirty-three years old he became at torney-general of his native State. He was patriotic charge that he made in March, delegate to the first Continental Congress 1776, to a grand jury won him the title of and was elected its president — the term the Samuel Adams of the South. When at speaker then, because a British term, not the end of their term he discharged them, being used. During a session a slight dis- after they had indicted several Tories for