But the courts before which I practice have the habit of charging, and some of the judges charge with great earnestness and vigor indeed, I may say they charge like the Light Brigade and canons of law to right of them, and canons of law to left of them, and canons of law in front of them, can’t stop them.”-Wash. Merrick, according to our practice the court only instructs on request of counsel and does not charge the jury.” Mr Merrick-“I am not familiar with your Maryland practice, twenty years having passed since I left the State.
Last charge of the light brigade trial#
Merrick had applied for a new trial on the ground that the court had failed to charge the jury. Merrick 4, during the course of an argument made by him in the Circuit Court of Prince George’s county last week, before Justices Brent, Ford and Magruder. The following amusing anecdote is related of our distinguished jurist, Hon. In the following from The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) of Wednesday 25 th April 1877, charge means, of a judge, to deliver an official instruction to the jury: He only knows that he must obey orders, whether charging, like the Light Brigade, into the jaws of death, or arresting unoffending citizens, whose innocence or guilt he is not allowed to determine. This is in accordance both with his training and his conscience.” The soldier knows nothing of the sort. The New York Commercial Advertiser, in speaking of the military occupation of the South pending the presidential election, says: “The soldier knows that he is going South as the upholder of law and order. The phrase then occurs in the following from The Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas, USA) of Sunday 29 th October 1876-here, again, charge means to rush forward in attack: The second-earliest occurrence of the phrase to charge like the Light Brigade that I have found denotes recklessness- charge meaning to rush forward in attack it is from Boar-Hunting Song, “ composed by a member of club, and set to the tune “Once for all””, transcribed in the account of the annual meeting of the Cawnpore Tent Club 3, held about sixty miles from Cawnpore (modern-day Kanpur, a city in Uttar Pradesh, northern India)-account published in The Field, the Farm, the Garden, the Country Gentleman’s Newspaper (London, England) of Saturday 17 th June 1876:Ī boar who will charge like the Light Brigade.ģ The prime purpose of the Cawnpore Tent Club was the hunting of wild boar. There seems to be but little work done on it, and I should think that nearly all the receipts were clear profit. The distance is only twenty-four miles, and on the road one finds toll-gates beyond endurance, and which “charge like the Light Brigade at Balaklava.” If I remember correctly I dealt out 54 cents toll in the twenty-four miles, and if other people are taxed accordingly the road ought to be a pretty paying institution. The drive from Clarksburg to Weston is a pleasant one, so the people tell me, when the road is in good condition, which it is now. J.’, published in The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, West Virginia, USA) of Monday 27 th September 1875-here, charge means to impose a pecuniary charge: The earliest occurrence of the phrase to charge like the Light Brigade that I have found is from Our Weston Letter, by a person signing themself ‘H. Caton Woodville 2.Ģ Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927) was an English artist and illustrator. Shatter’d and sunder’d.”-Alfred, Lord Tennyson.įrom the Grand Historical Painting, painted expressly for this Journal by R. This illustration and quotation from Tennyson’s poem appeared in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (London, England) of Saturday 20 th November 1897: The English poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) immortalised this event in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854).ġ The Crimean War (1853-56) was an armed conflict, in the area of the Crimean peninsula, between Russia and an alliance of Great Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey. This phrase alludes to the Charge of the Light Brigade, the name given to a British cavalry charge in 1854 during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War 1: a misunderstanding between the commander of the Light Brigade and his superiors led to the British cavalry being almost destroyed. Coined by various persons, independently from each other, on several occasions and for different purposes, the phrase to charge like the Light Brigade has had a variety of meanings, depending on the-often punning-acceptation in which charge has been used.
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