New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-18
Y He rR Blu n E.
For The TRIBUNE.
A pRoPHEcY.
rWrit,en in ISL
BY MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN.

your rest, Va
Oh. Western gordecf .lombsr whsfe the pfainetame he'
Wa. 'soter Of tn. Star. and s,rpes sleep ths rocking
Go ,mbe on the 6ea where Chiefs their charging Qnsdrons
urge,
e. ..t below the Ocean mark when LAUNDERING the
surge.
Put each and oil take heed ye watch with eagle eyes The
1yhsn .btIa Statesmen play their gamefor you the stake
must pay.
,whsr, in craft and raEc thee sit. while Truth shame
rctires.
councslhres.
Wake Feemsp OF the North awake Tor il sluube, now.
E.eho 20 shal abide the OF nations broken vow
In tear, and strife I'D blood shall fearfuy atone
For the day that ye mady regions not your own
Isee Isee their gaheuug wntt-the bands OF Mexico
And thick The forest starts the Indian foe
Their prayer despsea. then faith betrayed. their Children
seized AZ Slaves,
They ccms-to say them ccaonbs upon thor fathers grare
Hark. 10 the shrek of women before fierce maraude.
Right onward sweeps stolm OF fire along your Southern
border
Tho City thresholds ttebe the tread of rale,. feet
And blood of slaughtered nnoce doth dench The taken
street.
Up. with your Southern chivalry t;out Carolina come
AID old Virginia pour from each ancestral home
In yaoiu vain foe is there your grnnts quail before
The nsurEen Negro stands in blood household floor
yop brothers the North, " those lordy States.
mon CRY,
The yoke you bent your necks take, that yoke
will try.
Tell up your numbers a. we bring ,hs senates
From the lad of Penn Mexico number than
80 drop the plow base atoren. now ye white Slaves OF
tho North
And shed blood to the Stale and who show ii
forth.
"You nurmu.. .ugsish dots' be hushcd and call mind
when we played game for T:ra. 70, the stake
must pny!"
Now Christ havo mercy! still they stand every mountain
path,
And lion.lke and terrible tho silence Of their wrath!
Then with Of and they ha the yrant Order
Thatbd them strike for Slavery uponth Southern border
mo brothers now '-hey s.ernly vow" the will
not wear,
Ihs BONDAGE of such brotherhood spn;s bear
Now bitterly wake to feel that strong hearts and bold
HIVE lost the stamp of honesty of which fathers told
1--WE hoard your fair deceul words and yielded freedoms
trust,
THAT we might meany share with you the plage theja
Bunow wake and here we bde pleasant homes to
Your wives shall be the widows and your children father
lesn
Vain dream of homes md blessings 10, fate rush
ing on
oh turn ye TO the LIVING COP, and with repentance pray
Lord. sare-ssperish and perchance be will
ha'' -Ez--
legal Rssorn,-ihe Profession as IL WAS
and Is.
NETWORK. Dec. ,lsts 1874
TO The Editor Of The Tribune
have just returned from Albany, having at
tended Tor the FIRST time in several years Special
term of the Supreme Court set apart to hear and
decide motions ihat the practice CT the law may
render necessary. When ] retired from the pro-
fsssion several years ago, from choice left it as
l then .hought-and still thinks highminded,
honorable, honest profession, generally composed
o. men that despised a mean and dirty thing,
headed by Judges whose Roman firmness, whose
stern end honest frowD. rebuked knavery in every
form. nov find The whole atmosphere Of the
Court changed; rascalty is in the ASCENDANT
Old.fashioned, liberal practice, having to do with
the merits of the case, is ridiculed aud laughed
at, and succeeded by pure technicality and trick.
cry. Ii Lawyer tells manifest lie and sweaIs
TO it, 1t excites no surprise, but seems 10 be re-
garded as matter of course aud part and parcel
OF the profession. A Lawyer of high standing,
accustomed 10 attend these terms, remarked, tina,
ii the people knew OF the dark doings that were
there exhibited, they would rise in their wrath
and mob them out of the Capitol.
There were some cases Of peculiar hardship.-
A Lawyer moved for Judgment against plain.
Tiff because a bill OF costs, which he Testified had
accrued bsfore the countermand of a notice of
trial, had not been paid. He had bill taxed of
more than S25 including witnesses fees, upon
81, :. u
ON the motion that not u witness had then been
subpenaed-that he knew II and said so, when
IT was countermanGed the witnesses themselves
making affidavits that they were subpenaed some
3 or lQdays after. He did not pretend upon the
motion tia, single witness had been subpGnaed
but only that he had made cut his subpnua.-
His costs wereofdereG u be retaxed, and his con.
duct not only 0nrebuked but rewarded by the costs
of his mouon-no, not exactly unrebuked, for his
conduct received the unanimous condemnation
of the Bar, and 30 loud that he could and did
hear il.
Another case A limb Of the Jaw was sued for
breach of pyoase, attended with seduction, the
fruit of which was the birth of child OF sorrow
and OF shame. He put in for his own dear self
some twenty odd special pleas of the most dis
gushing and vile character. The poor plaintiff
in replying to such mass of fifth was so confused
eI Lug "a iiSi euihSoS, tlot tiie
pleas or replications got mscounte5, so that the
wrong replication was annexed to the wrong plea
Although 1t was perfectly NANTES, to the gay anc
legal seducer that The bilet-doux had get mixed
50 this nice limb of the law NOT only demurreo &c
marry The lady, but also demurred 10 hsr replica
cations, and in making up his demurrer books, the
whole thing was Legitimate as his baby -
Now The motion Was on behalf Of Inc lady to make
these crooked things straight, and re anner the
replicauons to Their proper places. Tbs Court
very properly decided that sill this must be done
but took all nigh to determine who should pay
the costs-the LADY or the honorable coSnsslor sreo
TO, promising To marry her, and who then refused
because he md ssdu:ed her, and thus grossly ia.
posed upon the Court, by sham pleas ard fooist
demurrers. MY dear sir, ached TO be Judge
about five minutes 1 would have had The fol
lowing order entered: "Ordered that the De
jendant's pleas and dsmurrers be Ill stricken cut