Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-09-06

hey 70 Keep the order or note till he OBJ
tanned the money, and then pay it to the
teacher bat by no means pay it TO Flint,
as he was irresponsible and it would not
do 10 trust hiG. ID ga
What is now to be done2 No argu-
ment or fact will avail. for they are all
against him. Deceit aud chicanery-
fraud and hypocrisy, so successful on 9TH
Ter occasions. will not answer here. They
will be nailed to the wall at once. Mark
then the course adopted by this Pettifog-
ger a0sthout a client or a party that aoiU
oaon or acknowledge him! RELYING on
the pliancy of the. tool he has selected for
has courl mot the Plaintiffs or Defendants
COURT he, at cnce, overlesps all the bar
riers OF common sense and deceDcy and
with the BRASS of a !" Sir Oracle" delivers
himself of the following pihy speech.
/" AM THE FOURTH School DISTRICT
OF BRANDON, and no one has a tight 10
question my authority! | have rightlo
sue and appear for that District or any
other party, even against their wishes and
directions. By cirtue o my profession as a
lawyer, and my admission to the bar of
the courts"!! / have heard that Andrew
Jackson formerly took upon himself a
large share of responsibility. but in order
to equal this he must, at least, claim
right to the Presidential chair Uitiout be-
ing elected by the people. The court de-
cided. at once, without any reference to the
conclusive opposing argument, that DAv-
enport had right to use party's name
and appear for him or them without their
consent, and that no one, on trial, bad a
fright TO question that authority. l shoul@
like to be informed where these Two petty
lyranls derive their authority for trying
and condemning the people, and hanging
them if they had the power without the
consent of either party.
Look al the morality of this transaction
as between Deacon of the Congregation
al Church, on the one side, and David
4 Sanderson a member of the Methodist
i Church on the other. Would either OF
these men lie willing that suit should be
commenced in their name, and they be
subjected TO an unlimited bill Of cost
without their consent? If not, how can
they subscribe TO Christ's golden rule oil
doing unto others" Sc? If the Dea
con has right to flch from man, large
bills of cost without his consent, he 0
, course, has an equal moral right to stea
/, his purse. his pork, his grain, or rol
e him on the highway. And this would b
y less culpable than to cover it under tn
! cloak OF legal proceedings. Assume =
II act for party, or for the people aelthOu
: their consent! A fine doctrine this for
! professed Democrat to advocated
,e | canno. refrain from noticing hsre, tn
v manner in which this obsequious court, i
ID order 10 show forth his ignorance and DIS
n nilv, (and perhaps might add his dr.
er grace too) before the people; undertook
;e on one occasion, TO interrupt the couns'
,e for The defendant. While the couns,
was reading from decision of the S
- preme Court. that the plaintiff must sho
i. las near as can recollecO the organic
Isl ltion of the district, and the appointment
a the officers al legal meeting; and tn
he all this must appear from the record, =
4 wise and learned court fin his own co
IRE cei,1 interrupted him by saying that WI
is he stated was not law, or was not tru
nd The counsel replied that it qoGs law a
to true. as he stated, for he bad just read
g. from the Report--and that II was pialr
'as 1.-TWO and two made four. Hereupon
:, court worked himself up into viol'
on, passion, to the wonderment, as well
his amusement, of all the spectators. 10
urt. words Of an old couplet | remember
ca have seen when boy.
Inc "He uembled and looked pale with Ire
in Like ashes first, THEN RED AS FIRE.
are AT last his smothered rage found Y
zed and burst forth in. loud tones with the
uld clamalion-s. Sit down Sir" The CO..
pot. sci merely touched his sea: and T
aim i'm nedia,ely and stated that he did not d
,ec- reject, at the time. upon the imme
J Of power with which the law had inves
bet inferior magistrates = so far were q