The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-10

rophesy from il considerable public penen', II, 90
tie circumstances have given me 10 suppose, YOU
re beginning TO be aware Of the importance OF your
aing, to feel your own strength as puonc oouy, T
take counsel by other corporations now 70 .hane
our own respected, and to submit to no further I'M
audience or insult when you can conveniently re- =
,ress il. My soul rejoices in the prospect OF swM
,etween the bar and the press OF these kinsuoms'
As member of the latter profession, am OF course
disposed impartially to stand by my friends les,
n this row, or in any other where your in'eless
nenaced there's cudgel in Fleet street, reaoy W
make play for the common cause
al have lust been reading in Fraser's magazine
he biography of a great leader Of the enemy, VINO
has lately passed away.
"sThe greatest skill of Folleu,' fraser says
consisted in presenting his case IN the most mar
monious and far-purposed aspect II there was
anything false or fraudulent, hitch or oIo' OF
any kind in his case, he kept il dexterousy out OF
view, or hurried il trippingy over But u ths oio'
was on the other side, he had the eye OF 'he lynx,
and the scent of the hound, to detect and run down
his game. He had the greatest skill in reading an
affidavit, and could pldy.the 'artfa dodge IN style
looking so much like gentlemanly candor, that you
could not find fault
@Thus il is that the writer, barrister evidently,
euogises the various qualities which raised that en-
inent man, and complacently enumerates his merits
He could play the 'artfiL dodge in a manner SO
candid as to defy suspicion. He could detect an en-
emy,s lies in q minute--his clients falsehood or
fraud he could keep out Of view. There's apanegy-
ric for a gentleman For these precious qualities
he earns fifteen thousand year. tie obtains the
highest post of the law. He goes to the grave
honored and followed by the Queens ministers and
the bar. For artful lodging with an air of candor;
for dexterousy reading an afidavit for cloaking
his clients lies and abetting his fraud. Bravo
Let the Temple bells be mufed; let the porters wear
Grape; let the bar walk after the hearse with disney
elled wigs and the silk gowns march IN tatters; Jet
the Judges howl threnody, led by the chancellor
and the chief baron; and let Sir Robert and SIR
James sacrifice an uuder-secreary on his tomb Let
us all sit down and weep--cerks, lawyers, news
papers, prime minsters ord.chancellors, and Tenn
pie porters-we all feel it, we're all 30 deep IN al
fiction-we're so sincere, SO honest
80, omnipotent, unfathomable Goddess OF Hum
bug! Statues should be erected to you through all
our city. golden one before Buckingham Pal.
ace, great brazen one before Westminster, rigid
marble one in the centre of Almack's, ana an enor
nous leaden one in Exeter Hall. But before the
Punch office, we would have the statue Hung
down, and the great Iconocast waving his baton
over the ruins.
"Ths, however, for future consideration and other
ages. Return we to the bar humbug, and muse,
dear friends, thereupOn.
elias il not often struck you, considering these
things, how cruelty the attorneys have been dealt
with by public repute-how, by ourselves in novels,
plays, and fictitious works--hence by the public in
daily life--that class of men has come to be con-
sidered dangerous, slippery, wicked set OF
practitioners When we talk Of roguish lawyers, as
talk we do--lawyers are supposed to mean attor-
neys--the bar somehow escapes scot-free; there's
no stain upon them; they get such large fees; they
become barons and earls SO often; above all, they
pirate so magnifcenty and constantly about their
own honor and dignity, that the public believe Them
they reap the dignity, and the poor attorney comes
in for all the odium.
| "And yet these men are but the creatures OF the
attorneys they 20 where the latter bid them; they
state what the attorneys tell them. If Quirk, Gam
mon, g. Snap prescribe the 'artful dodge Ser
geant Buzf1z performs It in court II an honest
man is to be bued in witness box, the barrister
| is instruc ted TO bully him. If murderer is to be
rescued from the gallows, the barrister blubbers
over him, as in Tawes case; or accuses wrong
| person, as in Courvoisers case. If a naughty wo-
man is to screened, barrister will bring heaven
itself into court, and call Providence to witness that
she is pure and spotless, certain great advocate
i Queen Caroline,
! "There they are, to be sold to the first bidder,
these folks Of the robe Other bona robas are sent
! to the spinning house for doing worse; and
these--these mount to the peerage and the WOOL
! sack--these talk of dignity and Independence OF
their profession forsooth-these say that man con-
nected with their profession shant report for the
newspapers.
"It's dishonorable to do that They'll turn man
from their mess who reports in paper; they'll ex'
pei man from their SpOtleSS society lot Reporting
-vrirs fnie, -artruI dodge;'
for keeping fraud and falsehood out of view--they
load him with honors for it. Each of the instances
above mentioned had risen high to rank and respect
This is law adviser to ministers; that minis
ter TO the Crown; the other went to the grave with
500 weeping reputable gentlemen at his back--hon-
est gentlemen, who will have no connexion with the
press.
VERY well Let the press be warned and suf-
fer, as best it may, this separation from the bar
Poor Peri turned out of Paradise, peep in and see
how the periwigged angels there innocently disport
this one doing the 'artfu dodge;' that one screen
ing the frauds of his CLIENT another bowling over
the fate of a murderer who gives him so many hun.
dred guineas; another insulting tmid witness, or
| accusing an innocent woman. See all these things
Press Send your commissioners in the train Of
these spotless men of law--and have your saw.
There is no call for politeness, truce or friend
| ship henceforth between you. You are not worthy
to sit at the bar Advantageous society for dgni-
fed and independentg entlemen Very well; be you
dgnified and independent too. Bear this in mind,
gentlemen of the press, that the bar disowns you;
and in the provinces, when the flock of barristers
comes squeezing into your assize-courts, laundering
after your attorneys fees, ready to perform the art-
fu dodge for the rogues in your jals, or to blub-
Der over murderers in the dock, welcome them as
their dignity and independence warrants. Don't
fail to point out their eminent merits. Hold up
their responsibility to public admiration.
$50 il is possible that, from this war between the
bar and the press, good may arises so it is pos.
sibe that, from this falling out, some honest men
may come by their own; which is the fervent wish
of the benevolent PUNcH.n
RELATIVE PosIrIoN OF MAHoMErANs, CHRISTIANS,
AND jews IN CoNsrANTMoPLE.-We clip the fol-
lowing extract from review Of the Travels of A.
8. s. Hill, which we find in a late number of the
London Spectator:
The Kayaks IN THE STREETS, CoNsTANTrNopLE.
Such is the slight variation in costume between the
Mussulman and the (Armenian) Christian sub.
jects of the Sultan, that stranger will hardly know
that he does not look upon of the good Mussu-
man children of the representative of the Prophet
But when we approach the Christian little nearer,
we find him, nor in air. nor in feature nor in any
thing that appertains to him save his external habit
resembling, indeed any the one than the other
of thoae alreadx xneptianed If L..