Litchfield enquirer., 1833-07-04

know of a more salutary provision which 1 could be engraiied oR eur constitution, than that which has been thrice forcibly re- commended by our President, to limit the tenure of office to some definite period of time, . e..te
 will close this number with the history of schOOlmate :-.JOb AItertOn commen- ced lie under the most flatterinn auspices. His tarnI was a pattern of neatneSs-6Clds well cultivated, cattle in fine order, and fea- ces and buildings in good repair. Job ow- ed no Gnan, and had accumulated a fine sum at interest. His children were growing up under lheir parents example in habits of industry; and promised to become respec- 1 table in society. Every thing ithrove un- der his care, and he was pointed to by all as. the best farmar i6 the town ;ofS. His good qpalities, aud the influence which these pfocorsd him. at length brought him into political notice, and he became suc- cessful candidate very much against his will, for the assembly,. He returned from Albany in tho spring with some new no- tlons, but the habits of the farmer still pre- dominated. To a second nomination Job had less objection, nay, he secretly intrigue , ed for it, for he thought, as he remarked, he was then qualified to do some good.- The second triumph, and the consequence 1 it gave him at the dinners and parties in 1 the renowned capital turned his head. aud he came home quite an altered man. It was no longer " Come bOys," with him. Politics engrossed his whole attention.---- He became standing candidate for every office that presented and was in success sion-sheriG, senator, and member of con- gress.
 In tue mean time the farm began to show the absence of the master the fem ces were prostrate, the cattle neglected, 1 and the buildings verging to ruin. The boys too, Us boys ever will, ,aped the father, began to strut the gentleman, and to look up for office aud dignties. As industry departed, prodigality entered, aud soon wasted the frugal earnings of former years. At length the illusion vanished. Allerton found himself deeply in debt, without means aud Without c6tce, with aHindolent extravagant family to support. Offices had ruined him. In his distress he mus tered resolution to do what hundreds have failed to do, and who have done worse.- With the wreck of a former competence, he pulled up stakes, and leaving behind him his official habits and official pride, fled to the wilds of Indiana, where lam happy to say, he has resumed again the ha- biiimcnts of the farmer. aud is pFnfaing by lthe' lessons Of cxpesieace.a ] Who is there that among his acquain- iance' does not recognize Job AllertOn2 
 E1traot from an address 0f Mr. LindsIey, President of NashVi!e UniDerssty. Whether university is of any use in training lawyers, I shall not inquire. In point of numbers we shall always have reasonable supply, learned or unlearnsd, honest or dishonest--because the nature of our political fabric, of our civil jurispru- dencc, and of all our legal usagss demands them, and because all our important civil offices, from the Presidential chair down. wards, are filled with them, They will abound and flourish just in proportion to the general ignorance and degradation of the mass of the people. If this be an evil, the only check upon it, and the only rem- edy for it, will be the diffusion of knowl- edge among the people. Enligbten and elevate the people, and they will have less occasion and less disposition to resort to : the glorious uncertainty of the law
 l cherish no unkindly sentiments to- wards lawyers. So long as the Gothic Saxo-Norman- English system of common, statute and bench-made law, which has { been represented as an iStcrmiHable, over- growing, incomprehensible, labyrinthian mystery of torture and exerlion-whch Burke deliberately denounced, ,-which Broughan is diligently laboring to reform, and which Benlham intrepidly threatens to annihilate, ,-or (to speak the language of Blackstone and others. so long as this intri- cate and beautiful science, the very perfec- ton of written reason, to the lucid devel. opement of which the most indefatigable and distinguished sages have nobly conse- crated their talents and their lives-so long as this much lauded and much vituperated system. whether it be law, science, myste- ry, or all combined, to which every known epithet of praise and censure has been and continues to be applied, and of which it is impossible for the uninitiated, like myself, to form any conception, except from its practical effects--so long as such a system, whatever may be it's qualities and tenden- cies, shall find favor in our land, lawyers will be the Oracles of truth, wisdom, and justice to the people. Lawyers too. there ,ousa ha .,~In. ana, F~cc. oc sxavornmant 0r