The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-12-04

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body of the law in laborious and reg
ular method; but especially aims to be
well versed in the practice Of every
court, and rightly to understand the art
ofgood pleadings, as knowing them to be
most useful TO unravel the knotty in
trigues of the cause, and reduce it to an
issue; yet hates to poster the court with
clrcuities, negative pregnants, depart
ures and multiplied impertinencies. He
pursues the year books and response
prtdenti,tna; with an heedy and reverent
eye delights to tread in steps of the an
cient sages, and thinks It's best sailing
by known and experienced landmarks.
And therefore he uses precedents, not
as refugees of ignorance, but as the safe
guards of wisdom; and yet, rather than
not keep pace with justice, will dis
pense with formality, considering that
what he does is grounded on reason,
and if it want precedent in past ages,
will be a laudable one to those to come.
He never gees about with feigned al
legations to cast mist before the eyes
of justice, that she may mistake her
road, and assign the child TO the
wrong mother; endea ours not to pack
jury by his interest in the under sher-
iff-not 10 balk an evidence with a null
titude of sudden ensnaring interrogato-
ries, nor maintains any correspondence
with the knights of Alsatia, or RAM
Alley vouchers. He can prosecute
suit in equity without seeking to create
a whirlpool, where one order shall be-
get another, and the poor client be
swung round (like cat before execu-
ton. from decree to rehearing, from
report to exceptions, and Uice Uersa, till
his fortunes are shipwrecked, and him
self drowned for want of white or yel-
low earth to wade through on. He new
er studies delays to the ruin of family
for the lucre of ten greats; nor by
drilling quirks spin out suit more last
ing than buff, depending whole revc-
luton of Saturn, and entailed on the
third and fourth generation He does
not play the empirick with his client,
and put him upon the rack to make
him bleed the more freely, casting him
into swoon with frights of judgment,
and then reviVing him again with cor
dial Writs of Error, OF the dear elixir of
an injunction, to keep the brangle alive
as long as ever there are any vital spi-
rits in the pouch. He cansuffer his neigh
bours to live quietly about him, without
perpetual alarm of actions and indict-
ments, or conuring up dormant titles to
every commodious seat, and making
land full five years purchase merely for
lying within ten miles of him.
He delights to be an arbitrator, not
an incendiary, and has Beati pacifci
oflener in his mouth than Currqt Lea.
He never wheedles any into endless
suits for trifles, nor animates them to
undo themselves and others for damage
feasant, or insignificant trespasses--pe-
dibus Gnlbulando, but Gas 1elepkus's sword
was the best cure for the wounds it
made, advises people to compose their
assaults and SANDERS over the same ale
that begot them. Nor does be in weigh
tier cases extort unreasonable fees. Fer
whatever the foul-chopped rabble may
suggest, lawyers profession is not
mercenary; the money given him is
only an honorary gratuity, for his ad-
vice and trouble, or grateful acknowl-
edgment o. our obligations for his we'll
intended endcavours; and the old en-
blem of the brambles tearing off the
sleeps fleece that run to il for shelter
in storm, can have no reelection upon
him, whose BRAIN is as active aud his
tongue as yoluble for penuyless pau
per, as when oiled with the aurmn po-
table of dozen guineas.
In q word-whilst he lives. he is the
delight of the court, the ornament of
the bar, the glory Of his profession, the
patron of innocence, the upholder of
right, the scourge of oppression, the
{terrour Of deceit, and the oracle of his
country.
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