New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-11-16

.lswver Is an officer of the Courts as mas been
iud;cizIlv held, and therefore must be appointed
mr. designated it is clear that some other tribunal
,nu., make tee appointment. While, therefore,
the People hear With meek reverence the Chief
Justices paternal resolution We rather think they
viii tell him that it is his FIRST duty to conform mis-
Official action the Constitution and Laws, after
which he is at liberty to be as patronizingiy phi
lanthropic as the benerolence Of his heart shall
dictate.
Let it be clearly understood tina; We do lot OBJ
iect to any regulations which the Legal Profession
shall see fit 20 make for the due maintenance OF The
character and reputation Of their body. We shall
glsdIv welcome the formation OF Faculty OF Ad-
yoostes into which ID man shall be admitted but
upon the fullest and most searching scrutiny Of his
character and qualifications, and from which sin
gle instance Of malpractice dishonesty shall sui
fee to ensure bis prompt expulsion. Let an Pha-
betical list 0! the members Of the Faculty De peri
odicallv Published so that litigants may know who
are the lawyers accredited b. the profession itself
lust as with the Medical Faculty az present Bat
r. in the face OF all this, tigant chooses 70 employ
blacksmith or borsedoctor instead Of lawyer to
manage his case. we insist on his natural night to
do so-which natural right ought TO be Constltu
tional right also The Convention has limited this
so far as 70 provide that ignorant incompetent per
sons MAJ be restrained from practcing as lawyers
but we insist that this restriction natural night
is not TO be extended by Judicial construction so as
m sbrt or, every BODY but licensed advocates from
the Bar much less 10 Justify the exaction OF pre-
scribed term and routine o! study prerequisite
We maintain that the fact that A 3 suitor has chos
on TO confde to c. D the conduct Of his suit creates
alegitimute presumption that c. D. is competent TO
conduct it. which presumption is TO be rebuff
ted IL some way before it can be overuled. II an
ignorant brsinlcss fellow shall appear in Court as
ATTORNEY in an important care, land We do not
believe this would happen half Sc often in the alb
sence Of the guardianship Judge Bronson volun-
1eers as in the other case the Court might properly
say Sir we do not deem you competent to man
age this cause you must cali in some aid that
will be efficient This is all that the Constitution
al provision viii Justify and this is too much
The State allows every man TO take hi. Physic
from whomsoever he will, and should allow every
one TO take his Law in Ike manner. Many man
will empoy incompetent teachers for his children
because they are cheap, but there is hardly one
who would engage a fool or an ignoramus for his
lawyer in any case. Look into our Courts and see
who are managing suits there. Are they not al
most uniformly competent and skillful advocates
Yet the other sort of lawyers are far more numer
Gus more ,obtrusive, more voluble in their own
praise. They have every thing but capacity and
practice and they never viii obtain much OF the
latter till they shall have acquired the former, no
matter how liberal toward them the Law and the
Courts may be.
The Evening Mirror we perceive dominates
Chancellor Hal,cort1 for Chief Justice of the New
Court Of Appeals with Justice Bronson and Vice
Chancellor Sanford as Associates. This is taking
the field early. especially since the Mirror was an
open and bitter adversary of the Amended Consti-
tuition Let us think while