Butts County GaArchives News.....Col. Y. A. Wright - Lawyer April 1890 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 January 7, 2004, 10:27 pm Middle Ga ARgus Col. Y. A. Wright It is with a pardonable pride that we note the able and eloquent speech made by the above named gentleman in the defense of O. L. Welch before Judge Boynton and the jury on last Thursday morning. Col. Wright is yet quite a young attorney, but his name, as one of the ablest lawyers in the state, has already spread, not only all over Georgia, but into several other states, and his triumph in the Welch case has added new laurels to his fame. One peculiarity about Col. Wright is that he never takes any notes of the evidence, and yet when he goes before the jury he states, almost verbatim, every word of the testimony. For two hours he held the large audience spellbound, as he handed and reviewed the testimony that had seen delivered from the stand. Every position he took was fully sustained by decisions of the Supreme Court. His arguments were unanswerable and many were the congratulations he received. His speeches are not only plainly spoken, and his positions hard to meet, but often he soars into lofty flights of oratory and eloquence equals to Ben Hill or Henry Grady. There were several able speeches made by Hall, Womack and others, but Col. Wright being one of our home attorneys, we feel it but due him that he should not have to go away from home to receive that praise which is justly due him. We trust to see him ere-long occupying a higher place among his fellows than an honorable lawyer at the bar. Middle Ga Argus – Week of April 8, 1890 This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb