Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-06-29


grounded in the principles Of nature,
and customs of nations, came (totis
maniJts) to the study of our common
municipal law, which be found TO be
Hattorum unROrum opus, task that re-
quires all the nerves of industry, aud
therefore employed his time atthe inns
of Court, better than in hunting after
new fashions, starting fresh mistresses,
haunting the play hoases, or acquiring
the other little town accomplishment,
which render their admirers fine men
in the opinion of fools, but egregious
tops in the judgment ofthe wise.
la his study, he tralfics not only with
the infantry of epitomes, abridgments,
and diminutive collectors in decimosex-
to, but draws his knowledge from the
original springs, digesting the whole
body of the law, in a laborious and re-
lgular method, but especially aims TO be
well versed in the practice OF every
court, and rightly to understand the art
Of good pleading, as knowing them to
be he most useful unrayel the knootty
intrigues oil the cause, and reduce it to
an issue, yet hates to poster the court
with clrcuities. negative pregnants, de-
psrtures and multiplied inconyenien-
cIes.
lie never goes about with fingered
allegations, to cast mist before the
eyes of justice, that she may mistake
her road, and assign the child to the
strong mother: endeayours not to pack
3 jury by his interests 10 the under She
riff; not to bsIk aa evidence with mul
titude of sudden ensnaring interrogato-
ries; nor maintains any correspondence
with the Alsatia, or Rum Alley vnuch-
ers. lie can prosecute a suit IN equity
without seeking TO create whirlpool,
where one order shall beget another,
and the poor client be swung round (like
a cat before execution,) from decree TO
rehearsing, from report to exception,
and vits versa, till his fortunes are ship |
wre ked, and himself drowned, for
want of white and yellow earth to wade
through on. He never studies delays, |
10 the ruin of a family, for the lucre of
ZEN greats, nor by drilling quirks, spins
out a suit more lasting than buff, de-
pending whole revolution of Saturn,
and entailed on the third and fourth
generation. lie dose not play the en-
piric with his client, and put him on the !
rack TO make him bleed more freely, |
casting him into swoon with trlghts OF
, judgment, and then reviving him again
With cordial of writ of error or the dear
elixir of an injunction, to keep the bran
sle (guarrel) alive as long as there are
my vital spirits in the pouch. He can
suffer his neighbours to live quiet about
hin, without perpetual alarms of actions
and indictments, or conjuring up dor
mant titles to every commodious seat,
and making the land fall FIVE years. 'pur.
chase, merely for lying within ten miles
Of him.
He delights to be an arbitrator, not
an ncendiary, and has beotus pac;fcus
Dftener in his mouth than curral lea.
He never wheedles any into endless
suits for triflas. nor animateS them to
undo themselves and others, for dam
age feasant, or insignificant trespasses,
oedibas an,b,Slando, but (as Telephus's
sword was the best cure for the wound
t made,) advises people to compose
heir assaults and SANDERS over the
same ale that begot them; nor does he,
n weightier cases, extort unreasona-
BILE fees; Tor, whatever the foul-chapped
rabbe may suggest, lawyers profess
sion is not mercenary; the money CIV
EN- him as only an honorary gratuity for
his advice and trouble, era grateful &C
of our obligations for
his we'll intended eudeavours, and the
CID emblem, of the bramble's tearing
the sleeps fleece that runs to it for
shelter in a storm, can have no reflec-
ton upon him, whose brain is as active,
and his tongue as valuble, for penny
less pauper, as when oiled with the Gu-
cum potable of dozen guineas.
In word, whilst he lives he is the
delight of the court, the ornament of
the bar, the glory of his profession, the
patron of innocency, the upholder of
right, the scourge of oppression, the
terror-of deceit, and the oracle of his
country, and when death calls him to
the bar Of heaven, by a habeas corpus
cam cGusis, be finds his judge his advo'
cate, nonsuits the devil, obtains Ii5er-
Gte from all his infrmities, and contin-
ues stA one of the Long Robe in Glory.