May it please the court, on Cannoli Cream Tuesday, we learned to make cannoli cream using a technique to make the cream lighter by adding homemade whipped cream to the ricotta. We made the standard cannoli filling and one with lemon zest. It was a great success. We developed steep sturdy peaks in our whipped cream. Then, we were of to the lowlands of South Carolina to catch up with the Murdaugh investigation. We applied this to our witnesses in the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Witness testimony reveals the investigation for better and for worse. We look forward to a busy Objection Wednesday learning about the art of objections and finishing the preparation of our cases. With any luck, we will attempt to make pasta from scratch on Thursday. The trial is scheduled for Friday morning. Cameras will be allowed in the courthouse.
Lawyer Spotlight: Daniel Webster
“Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.”
“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
“Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.”
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
Image of Daniel Webster: Otto Bettman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia: “Born in New Hampshire in 1782, Webster established a successful legal practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after graduating from Dartmouth College and undergoing a legal apprenticeship. He emerged as a prominent opponent of the War of 1812 and won election to the United States House of Representatives, where he served as a leader of the Federalist Party. Webster left office after two terms and relocated to Boston, Massachusetts. He became a leading attorney before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning cases such as Dartmouth College v. Woodward, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Gibbons v. Ogden. Webster was skilled at articulating arguments designed to appeal to Marshall and another influential Supreme Court justice, Joseph Story …
Webster argued more than 200 cases before the Supreme Court. As a Senator, Webster made his famous second reply to Hayne. Hayne served as a surrogate for Vice President Calhoun, who could not himself address the Senate on the issue due to his status as the Senate’s presiding officer. Webster held that the people, and not the states, held ultimate power, and the people had established the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. He ended his speech with a call for ‘Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!'”